Lotus Oden.
Somehow, I'd suspected she was going to play dumb. That I was going to have to follow suit. As I blinked at her, she knew she'd been spot on.
"Using you… Huh?"
Nati let out a harsh breath, snatched the wine bottle, and filled herself another glass, damn my earlier warnings. She had to get this off her chest. A pleasant warmth was already spreading in her chest, goading her on. "Don't play dumb.". Your caveman routine the very first time I showed up at your front door. Sparing no details for Ava's Parents. Frenching me within eyesight of that security guard. Why are you doing these things?
"
"It's just a tactic to bail us out of sticky situations, Nati. It always pays off, doesn't it?"
"But what do you think it does to me?"
I glared at her. Did I not know, or was I still
