Onyx Mafia: Insatiable - Episode 5: (Lia and Meghan) (Onyx Mafia: Insatiable Book 1) Read Online Free PDF Page B

closer to Azina.

    Lia nodded. “More than likely she’ll develop a few persistent admirers tonight. I owe her for this.”

    She caught Zi’s eye and shook her head.

    It was like a switch turning off, a puppet with its strings neatly severed. She slumped, sticking her hands in the pockets of her coveralls, hair shielding part of her face where it had shone with radiance moments before. And then she turned, heading towards the back, where I guess the bedrooms were.

    As she left, people actually blinked like they were coming out of a trance.

    “Um,” Aaron stood, craning his neck. “Is Azina alright? Is she coming back?”

    Lia stood close to him. “She’ll be back, Aaron. Give her a few moments.”

    He looked back to where Zi’s departing form was last seen.

    Lia sat, pulling him down with her. I moved to sit elsewhere when I heard Lia say, “So, Meghan tells me you’re a spy.”

    Shit. My stomach dropped and I froze, not knowing whether I should turn back or just leave, go out the door and start walking until I found a place to start a new life. I could be a farmer or something, grow beets - those are hardy vegetables. I don’t really like beets, but I guess eventually I would have to. Lots of salads. Country cook-offs. Maybe have a cow and name her Daiquiri. That’s a nice name. Witty, even.

    “Meghan.”

    Slowly I turned to face her, avoiding Aaron’s stare.

    “I was making a poor joke, forgive me. Actually Aaron, Meghan’s been the model of tight lips, she just has a trouble keeping every damn thought off her face.”

    Aaron’s jaw clenched.

    “This of course led me to believe that she was the ruse, an obvious plant to keep me distracted while the more competent agents conducted the investigation. No offense, Meghan.”

    Offense most definitely taken, Lia.

    “What is it you want, Ms. Onyx?” Aaron’s voice was brusque, after one angry glance he dismissed me, focusing on Lia.

    “Are you after Brenda?”

    “I’m not discussing details of any potential or ongoing investigations.”  

    Lia was watching him carefully, doing that X-ray thing with her eyes. She blinked slowly and nodded, some of the tension leaving her shoulders.  

    “That’s fair. Well, there’s no point in spoiling the evening. Please, stay. I think we’re playing tricky traveler next.”

    He stared at her, opened his mouth to say something. Thought better of it. “Give Zi my regards,” he said standing. He paused, leaning over to hiss, “It’s a damn shame what you got that poor girl into. I want to see you fall for this, Onyx .”

    “Mmhmm. Perhaps we’ll see you tomorrow, Aaron.”

    He left and Lia patted the seat next to her. I let myself fall into the cushion angrily. “You kinda sold me out there, Lia.”

    “Did I?” She pulled me closer. “It seems like the agency sold you out - throwing you to the wolves like that.”

    I looked at her. “You know in that analogy, you are the wolf.”

    She smiled.

    I sighed deeper. Yeah, she knew.

    Zi came back, her hair pulled back in a ponytail. “Scootch, Meghan.”

    I slid over, somehow ending wedged between them. Resigning myself that this is how the evening was going to be.

    The tricky traveler was a silly game where one person had to decide one attribute of a thing they would bring with them, denying all other items without that attribute. We had to guess what is was, and as the wine flowed, the more obscure the “attribute” became.

    It was Lia’s turn and she was having a blast, eyes shining. “I will bring my nose, but not water. I will bring small amounts of salt. I will bring loose change. And I will make it there with all I need just in time…

    “A pinch!” I laughed. Lia touched my knee, smiling, “Another win for Meghan.”

    I noticed Zi never guessed, never took a turn. She was playing a different game. A game involving my body and Lia.

    They were tag team touches, Lia’s hand on my knee – just for a moment. The next