Chapter 20Edmund barely heard the rest of the conversation. He made the right noises, answered the few questions Shea still had, and hung up with a scarlet anger seething beneath his skin. Darby was next to him before he’d lowered the phone, her knee warm where it pressed to his, but not even that was enough to make his fury ebb.
“What happened? What’s going on?”
“Mathias is making a mess of things.” His jaw ached from how tightly he was grinding his teeth together, and he scrolled through the register on his phone until he found the number he was looking for. “As usual.”
Her fingers curled over his thigh, stroking him in reassurance. “Is he all right?”
“He better be. Because I’m going to kill him.”
There was only a single ring before Mathias answered. “Can’t go a night without me, ca
