Monster 16

Monster

“What the hell are you thinking?” Cyber sidled up to me outside the diner with Keeley close behind him. Everyone else was still inside, laughing, talking, getting to know each other.

Angela was charming, she would have to be to win over my friends. They all knew what she had done, who she was related to. She wasn’t going to be able to flirt her way into being liked either. Her sexiness wouldn’t do her a bit of good with the men at our table. Each one of them had an old lady they would do anything for. Old ladies who would rip Angela to shreds if she stepped out of line.

Leaning against the plate glass window, I stared at him. My face impassive. “What the fuck do you mean what am I doing?”

Groaning, Cyber turned to Keeley. “Talk some sense into him, Keeley, he will listen to you.”

My cousin didn’t say a word, she just continued to stare at me, wringing her hands in front of her. She looked nervous. And so much like the little girl who always told it how it was no matter what