Bonus Scene
NOAH
Three months ago
“Hold on a second.” I pinch the bridge of my nose, my brain misfiring with the information overload. I haven’t even had my morning coffee yet. “You want me to do what now?”
“It’s not that difficult to comprehend, dickhead,” Theo drawls, his long blond hair blowing in the breeze.
Pulling my coat tighter around my ears to ward off the chill filling my bones at his request, I mutter, “Maybe for you.”
“Look, I need someone hidden. She needs to go back to school, and you’re a guidance counselor—how or why I’ll never know since you’re a miserable bastard. See if you can befriend her and get her to talk, cause she sure as shit isn’t saying anything to us.”
“I am not a grumpy bastard,” I grumble, proving him right.
He raises an eyebrow at me but continues. “Anyway, as I was saying, you’re the perfect person to keep an eye on her.”
“The fuck I am,” I growl. “I’m not a fucking babysitter.”
“Don’t be a dickhead all your life,” he replies sarcastically, eyes rolling.
“You bring me out here to the middle of bum fuck nowhere, pat me down—grabbing my dick a bit too long to be socially acceptable, might I add—and then proceed to tell me you need me to keep eyes on Harper Thomas, the daughter of Michigan’s U.S. Senator? Have I got that right?”
He grins and nods. “Yup.”
Fuck my life.
“Fine,” I sigh, knowing I’m not going to be able to get out of this. I owe him one. “I’ll babysit the little princess. What could go wrong…”