12-13-2024, 12:02 PM
Mae helped pack the books. She noted that Elyse had a lot more things than Nox. Still nothing compared to anyone in her household. But then she suppoed their lives had all been different. Elyse didn't seem the rogue hunter living out of the back seat of a car type hunter. Sure there was a box of weapons. Nox had a storage locker full of them. Everyone knew where it was, and the pass code to get in. If it was ever needed to protect Kallisti he had told them. Mae had never been inside, neither had anyone other than Bruno. Bruno knew a lot more about what Nox had lingering around the club that was deadly. Not to mention the block Nox patrolled. There was no way Elyse's father would catch Elyse unaware if she didn't leave that block, and there was little need for it. They had a convenience store, a diner, the club, and Nox's house all in one convenient little monitored perimeter. If Sage's drones didn't scare them off then Bruno or one of the other guys might show up to help out someone in the area.
She'd be much safer there than here. But she didn't make the comment. "This is all you have? Do you have more at your parents place -- or did you? Did you even have a place?" She only knew the stories of the American Atharim, Nox didn't know how it was here. Only where he grew up. A place Mae never wanted to go, and with people she never wanted to meet. She hadn't liked Jacob when he came to the club. He was a cold man, though even through the hatred she'd felt he felt love for Nox. It was strange to love and hate someone so much at the same time.
Mae had to shake herself out of the memories and steel herself as Anna showed up. "You can help with the books. The closet looks too small for two people to work."