Chapter 22

"Pri?" I locked the front door behind me.

Voices and laughter floated out from the living room so I did what I did best, which was veer toward my bedroom hoping to evade them.

"Ash? That you?" Priya stepped into the hallway, her "two glasses of wine" flush in full force. "What happened to your neck?"

"Run in with a hostile. All good."

"Come meet Arkady."

I edged closer to my bed. Unlike Priya, who thrived in a crowd, I preferred to recharge in a quiet space, and right now my internal energy bar was blinking red. How could Levi have done that to me? "I don't want to intrude on your date."

Priya laughed. "He's gay."