Blade's POV
I arrived at the safe house a little bit earlier than anyone so I could take a brief look at the map before everyone else came in.
Dante arrived after me with Belle practically prancing like a happy horse beside him. Something had changed between them—I could see it in the way they moved together, and the way he held out the door, meeting her gaze as she came in.
What a sight. I stared at the both of them, my eye brows raised in confusion.
Cara came in quietly, as always. She sat at her usual seat, her eyes meeting mine and a smile crossing her face for a moment. I thought about the motel, about waking up to find her face inches from mine, about the elderly people who'd assumed we were together.
My chest felt warm as I recanted the memory.
Talis was last, carrying his fo
