Highly Unlikely [BxB]

CHAPTER NINE

The Mad Egg

Kayden was not late. Not even by a second. Maybe he was always true to his word, or maybe promises made over lizards and cotton candy were important to him, but he really was here.

I had to wave him over to me the moment he got into the gallery. Killian stood right next to me, looking menacingly at anyone who came close to me. It did not help that he was dressed in his black suit and black sunglasses looking all business-y. Gary stood just a few feet away from us, but it was easy to tell that he was alert about my surroundings. He wouldn't miss a thing if I was subjected to threat, although Killian would deal with it first.

This could go horribly. Kayden could find out that Killian was my bodyguard and want nothing to do with me because it was a lot to handle. Or he could be different. Please be different.

I glanced at Killian as Kayden approached me. He stared straight ahead with no such thing as a glance in my direction, then slowly turned his gaze to Kayden. Just as he took a step to bar me from Kayden. I put a hand out to stop him. "He's a friend," I said to him. Killian paused before he nodded and stood back, going back to his original stance.

I instantly smiled when Kayden was finally right in front of me. "Fancy place," he said as he glanced around and slowly eased his hands inside the pockets of his dark blue jeans.

The Emerald Season was once known as a hotel. It has exactly seven rooms for guests excluding other quarters. One of my dad's friends bought it and now it always changed. Sometimes it was a getaway, sometimes a club headquarters for whatever old men needed to talk about and sometimes a venue for private parties. It changed with different circumstances. Today it was an art gallery, and the some of the art on display was almost more expensive than some of the cars I owned.

"Julian?" Kayden turned a quizzical look to me. My eyes moved from where his arms filled out his black T-shirt to his eyes. I swallowed.

"Hi," I replied, trying to sweep my distractedness under the rug. "You look good." I swear on my life, I did not plan to say that.

Kayden smirked at me. "I always look good JuJu," he replied. "Even in a onesie."

Was it weird that I liked hearing him call me that, even if it was him making fun of my baby photo? "I'll have to judge for myself."

"Oh you do not want to dare me, Julian," he said.

"I think I do."

"Don't say I didn't warn you."

He hadn't yet noticed Killian or Gary, and I wasn't sure if I should tell him or wait for him to notice. "Wait," he suddenly said. Oh God here it comes, here it comes. "This' your bodyguard or something?"