Chapter 59

Plus, the way his hand had shook…nah. Luca’d just avoid him a bit more, and it’d be fine. This was overkill. Jack wasn’t freaking stalking him.

“He’s yours now,” Aaron said, sliding down off the wall. “I have a rehearsal.”

“No snogging?” Luca taunted.

“Nah,” Aaron said, and grinned. “Reckon I’ve learned enough about your gob for the time being.”

Out of the corner of his eye, Luca saw Tav’s eye twitch, and he smirked as he dropped down off the wall himself and adjusted his bag on his shoulder. When Tav reached, Luca enacted punishment, and recoiled.

“Nuh-uh,” he said. “You fucking put the guard on me. I’m not some pussy girl.”

“Jack gets a knife near your balls, you might well be.”

“He wasn’t interested in my balls.”

“No, your neck, and that’s so much better,” Tav said sourly.

“You need to relax.”

“You need to get serious,” Tav snapped. His face was creased in a scowl, and Luca rolled his head back on his neck and sighed at the sky.