When The Sun Goes Down - A Midnight Mafia Novel

Chapter Fourty-Six

                I had agreed to meet Nash outside of town at one pm for lunch at some stupid sushi place. Of course, I didn't show. I had never intended to go. I was just looking to shut him up and get myself out of the station and to work. I looked to the clock with a smug grin.

1:02

I was such a bad ass.

"What is that shit eating grin for?" Stacey asked.

I glanced up to her. "Oh nothing." I said quickly. I had made sure to be preoccupied today, just in case curiosity got the best of me. And who was I kidding, I was a journalist. Curiosity always got the best of me.

So I asked Stacey out. I mean, she was my best friend and I had been seeing a lot less of her lately. Plus the fact that Alessio had handed me a shiny gold credit card and told me I needed to fill a closet at his place definitely meant I needed a shopping buddy. I casually mentioned inviting Stacey out and he shrugged and told me to buy whatever for whoever just not to bitch and moan about having nothing to wear anymore.

Oh yeah and this closet? Apparently a walk in.

"So you and this night and shining armor guy of yours, you're getting pretty serious huh?" She teased.

I smiled and rolled my eyes. "It's not really like that. I mean..." I turned around to face her. She was pressed against a wall draping a long red dress over her body dramatically and full of sensuality. Lip pout present and all. "We haven't even kissed."

She dropped the dress.

"Stacey! That thing Is like two hundred dollars don't drop it on the floor!" I gasped.

"You're practically living together and you haven't kissed?!"

"We're not practically living together." I scoffed. "I stayed like three nights. I mean, we slept in the same bed and we showered together and everything but nothing happened."

She dropped the dress she had just picked up for the second time and waved her hands around wildly. "Woah, woah, woah. You slept together and showered together, and nothing?"

"Nope." I muttered searching through clothing.

"Did you like...shower naked?"

"Of course we did!"

"Is he gay?"

"He says he's not." I sighed.

"Well whatever. I'd shower with someone who handed me pretty shiny cards too." She winked. "Everyone needs a sugar daddy."

"He's not my sugar daddy."

"You're just lucky he's not old and wrinkly like most sugar daddies." I rolled my eyes again. "Lucky he calls you back anyway. That asshole hasn't called me in six days!"

I opened my mouth and then shut it abruptly. Pietro had been a bit preoccupied. He'd taken a baseballbat to the head and had indeed been thrown in the gutters. Luckily for him he'd survived, and lucky for me he'd saved us in the nick of time I couldn't exactly tell Stacey all of this though. It wouldn't make sense if I told her that her knight in shining armor was being playing army with my knight.

I glanced up when red and blue flashing lights and sirens filled the air. "Huh. Wonder what's going on." I said slyly changing the subject.