Page 188 of Chaos has a Name
Uriel saw the moment where he realized he wasn’t a guy hanging around his daughter. He was literally just a bodyguard.
That got old too. It made him wonder what it would be like to not be invisible.
Yep.
There was no dating Rayna. It was time to forget about that and let it go.
He wasn’t good enough. He’d bet on it. Not that he’d be here long enough anyway.
“Dad, we need to talk about this,” she said, hoping he understood what she was referring to.
Lance was to the point.
“We do.”
With a stranger around, this wasn’t the place to have the conversation, so he pulled her away slightly, and Uriel stayed back.
What they didn’t realize was he had excellent hearing, and the com in his ear could switch over to microphone with a tap to the earpiece.
So he did the worst thing.
He did his job and eavesdropped.
Oh, and he heard an earful.
“You know that you’re not permitted to get involved with a white man, Rayna. How many times do we have to have thisconversation? I saw how close you were sitting to him. Abort that mission.”
Rayna stared at him.
“We were literally introduced an hour ago. Calm down, keeper of my chastity belt.”
He sighed.
“Rayna, why do you have to be this way? I swear, sending you away to college made a mess. You’re out of control.”
She laughed.
“Well, I have bad news, Dad. I’m allowed to pick who I speak to. You’re still stuck in your ways from the beginning of time. It’s not nineteen oh-one. If I think a guy is attractive, and I want to have a bottle of water on a warm day with him, I can. Calm down.”
Clearly, rationalizing with his daughter was nothing but futile.
Instead, he tried another route.
Maybe that would work.
“What is being dug into is dangerous. I don’t want you dealing with it. Stop investigating. I want you to go home and pretend you know nothing about this.”
Yeah, no.
Her job was to investigate. Rayna’s job was to protect and serve the community, and at that moment, something was stalking tribe members.
On top of that, she really didn’t know anything about this whole mess, but she would.
Bet.
On.
It.
