again as she looked at the car. I doubt she even realized what she was doing, but as I watched her play with it the Lucky Charms cereal commercial popped into my head and I could hear the Leprechaun saying ‘ nobody messes with me Lucky Charms’ . Fuck that’s some funny shit. Looking at the stormy expression on her face I decided it was best to shut the fuck up.
Chapter Five
Sapphire…
Wrath grabbed my bags from the trunk as I looked at the car. Mom was going to shit a brick. What the hell was I going to tell her? Her little car finally died. She’d had it since her college days in the nineties. I don’t know how the hell it was still running anyway. At the very least I needed to have it towed somewhere.
“Hey, wait…you’re walking too fast.” His damn long legs and these heels didn’t go well together. It was hard enough keeping up while not falling over at the same time, now that took skill.
“C’mon. Do I need to carry you?”
“Hell no and you’d better not try.”
He laughed and thankfully slowed down so I could catch up. “I need to get the car towed or something.”
“I know, Joe will know what to do. Don’t worry.”
“Easy for you to say. How am I going to get back home?”
“We’ll figure it out.”
“You know you’re taking this really well, I figured I’d be hearing some kind of shit by now.”
“Why? You’re fun, we get along, and now I won’t have to break in someone new.”
I don’t know whether he was kidding or not, but I was pissed. Someone new? WTF? “You really suck you know.”
“Yeah, so I’ve been told. But…I have to say you definitely suck better, and the ice. Hell fuckin’ yeah.”
I knew my face turned bright red and I didn’t know whether to be happy I’d impressed him or just pissed about everything. I needed to be close to him to finish the story, but this close to him? It’d be easier for info gathering but definitely harder to get the story written and send my updates.
As we approached the bus, butterflies formed in my stomach. This was a big deal, staying with the band on their bus. I wondered how it was going to go over with everyone. It was already running with everyone else inside. Wrath stamped out his cigarette and punched in a code to open the luggage area tossing in my duffel. He handed me my backpack to bring on the bus.
Taking a deep breath, I followed him up the steps. I’d been there before, we’d fucked like bunnies in his cubby the first few nights in Philly, but I’d been drunk. I’d needed it to keep me from freaking out and blowing my cover. I wished I had a drink or at least coffee with me now. Seriously, what normal woman could pull off this groupie shit without being drunk? My bravery only went so far, and yeah I’d been crushing on him forever but it didn’t mean I could fall into bed with him without consequences. I hoped this article would help us both, get the band excellent press and get me my dream job—but both remained to be seen.
At first no one noticed me, sometimes it was good to be small, Wrath totally blocked me from view. Joe’s eyebrows went up a bit as he saw me but he just smiled. He seemed really nice, too.
“About fucking time you got here, asshole. Did you get rid of your little fuck girl?” Rage asked from the table.
“Not exactly,” Wrath answered as he grabbed my hand and pulled me in front of him.
Fury whistled and Chaos and Cynda looked up from whatever they’d been doing.
Chaos had a strange look on his face and I wanted to melt into the floor. I was not getting a warm fuzzy feeling from any of them.
“Um, Wrath? Care to explain?”
“Her car took a dump and wouldn’t start. I wasn’t gonna fuckin’ leave her in the middle of nowhere alone.”
He had a look of defiance on his face, like he was waiting for someone to say anything about it.
“Gotcha. Check with Joe, see if he can call someone about it before we leave.”
Wrath nodded and squeezed my hand. I