“You’re kidding!” Christina said as she reached into a bowl of dried strawberries and plucked one out. “That man is a nuisance. He shouldn’t be allowed out in public.”
Dustin shook his head. “Seriously, right? I thought Emil was going to bust something standing there.” He pantomimed the explosion of the top of his head and Christina chuckled.
“What did Nico say?”
Dustin rolled his eyes. “To leave well enough alone. Not to let it bother me.” Christina tsk’d and added her own eye roll to the equation. “You know,” Dustin continued, “I don’t understand him sometimes. My friend Jewel? The one who was with me when Emil showed up? I thought he was going to cut someone he was so pissed off. Nicolae, he just lets Emil’s hate roll off him like water off a duck.”
Christina patted Dustin’s arm. “E
