Page 50 of Taming the Beasts
Titan didn’t acknowledge me at all.
“Where are Emma and Callum?” I asked.
“Oh. Right.” Otto walked over to one of the vaults and spun the wheel. It hissed open.
“I should have known you’d try to lock me up if I came here,” Callum said and walked out. He’d removed his shirt and he had a large bandage wrapped around his torso. The side of it was soaked with blood.
“If we wanted to lock you up, we wouldn’t have let you out,” Bennett said.
Callum glared at him.
This was not off to a great start. “Callum, are you alright? Do you need to go to the hospital?”
He looked over at me. “I don’t think that would be a great idea.”
Oh. Right.There was a lot of blood at the hospital. Or maybe he meant that the doctor would be able to tell he wasn’t human. Either way, it was a bad idea.
“I’ll stitch him up,” Bennett said.
Callum shook his head. “I’ll do it myself.” He turned to Emma. “You swear you’re okay, Emma?” Callum grabbed both sides of Emma’s face and examined the side of her neck. Even though he was the only one with a bad habit of biting people there.
“I’m fine. Please let Bennett help with this. I had no idea what I was doing when I patched you up in there.” She lightly touched the side of his bandage and Callum grimaced.
This was a freaking disaster.
“I think it’s better if we just go,” Callum said.
Emma turned to me for help.
“Look, we wanted to talk to you about this all at once,” I said. “And obviously, I didn’t see it going like this.” I gestured to the mess in the bank. “But I was talking to one of my clients the other day and…”
“One you’ll talk to again after yourvacation?” Titan asked and folded his arms across his chest.
For fuck’s sake.Of course he’d been watching my “goodbye video.” And I was pretty sure Kebe had said something about stepping in while I was on vacation. But it was a permanent vacation.
“What is Titan talking about?” Otto asked. “Did you make your goodbye video?”
“Yes,” I said.Kind of.
Titan sighed and shook his head.
“It’s a work in progress,” I said. “I found someone to take it over for me.”
“Okay,” Bennett said. “And you told your fitness clients that you quit, right?”
Shit.“I forgot to do that. I’ll do it right after this.”
“How long do you see thisvacationbeing?” Titan asked. “Because I have shit to do and I’m over this.”
It felt like he’d slapped me. He was over this? He’d never even been in it. I’d fucked everything up.
“That’s what I thought.” He started walking toward his office.
“Titan, stop! I’m sorry, okay? Everything the past few days has just been a huge misunderstanding.”
He turned around. “The only misunderstanding is that you’ve conned all my friends into thinking you actually like them…”
“Titan!” Bennett yelled. “Seriously, fuck off.”
