“Well, you think about it.” She nodded to Colin. “Follow me.”
I should leave. I should walk right out that door. But I couldn’t. Everything in me forced my body to immobility.
I wanted to know what Colin was having tattooed on his body. Where he was having it tattooed on his body. And why he was doing it here, in Snow Creek, the home of his brutalizer.
Once Colin had disappeared into the back, Haley returned. “You still here?”
“Yeah.”
She lifted her brow. “And…why?”
“Curious,” I said.
“About what?”
“About which tattoo Colin is getting.”
“You a friend of his? Because he didn’t say one word to you.”
“Not a friend, exactly. An acquaintance.”
“Then what do you care?”
I didn’t have a lot of money to spare, but I pulled out a twenty-dollar bill from my wallet and pushed it toward Haley. “Just tell me what he’s getting.”
She took the money and slipped it beneath her crop top. “Sure. It’s not like we have a tattoo artist and client confidentiality thing. You didn’t need to pay me.”
Fuck. But I didn’t ask for the money back. “So?”
“It’s something he designed himself. Pretty artistic, actually.” She pulled out a piece of paper and slid it over to me.
I held back a gasp.
It was a skull. A skull missing the entire left side of the cranium. All in black except for the eyes of a snake slithering out from the break. I’d seen similar images, but the snake usually had red eyes.
Not this one.
Blue eyes.
Like my father’s.
Like mine.
Underneath were words in block letters.
Save Yourself.
Chapter Twenty–Three
Marjorie
I found Talon in his office, on the phone. He motioned me in, so I sat down across from his desk. The chair was warm.
Was this where Bryce had sat earlier?
Maybe, but the warmth had nothing to do with that. It had been hours ago. God, I was being so ridiculous.
Talon ended his call. “Is Jade okay?”