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"Aer?" I ask

Oz pops open a bottle of beer and takes a drink "You want one?"

I shake "

"We’re staying here tonight," he says "I had already cleared it with Eli before everything went to shit with Olivia"

My eyebrows furrow together "Why would you have done that? And you haven’t answereddraw off the beer and then sets it on the s room from the kitchen "The Riot was spotted thirty miles north of Snowflake That isn’t their territory and Eli likedyou in case they decided to stop by for a visit"

I shrink into the sectional couch that encompasses most of the space in the room No wonder my mother is a train wreck It’s al Alet tired of living this way?"

"Which way is that?"

Delusionally? But it’s not

"Which way, E for a fight, but Oz is

"Have you ever thought of a life outside of the club? You know, get an office job, settle down in a nice neighborhood, have two point five kids and a dog naet a rope and tie it around my neck, will you help push me off a cliff?"

"I’m serious," I say "I don’t understand why you want to live like this You’re supers that the rest of the world isn’t cloak-and-dagger It’s easy and peaceful"

Oz scratches the sexy stubble along his jaw "Knohat I don’t have to deal with in rins "I could say the sas a chair fro room and straddles it His biceps flex as he crosses his araze away I find a in his eyes

I’ve been busted "I never said you weren’t pretty"

"You lied, Ms Integrity You are bold And if we’re swapping coeous"

Heat flashes on my cheeks and I immediately look down

"Don’t do that," says Oz

"Do what?"