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How does the ht as Trent lined up his drive, head down and feet shifting, looking oddly appealing outside of the suit and tie I usually saw hi hi the way his shoulders pulled the soft fabric, or how the sun shone through his al about his ears, or how the shadows made his slim waist look even trie I foundas he untwisted and the flat of the club hit the ball with a ping
“Yeah, the elf looks good in the sun,” Jenks s on the bottos and out of theto put us all out of your misery and boink him?”
“Don’t start with me” With a hand held up to shade in to descend
“All I’uys you date are either dead or running scared by now”
The ball hit with an audible thu in me fluttered at Trent’s pleased s this “I’ his security,” I muttered
“This is work?” Wings hu ahead to do a redundant check of the area before alked into it
Jenks’s silver dust quickly vanished in the July heat, and I felt a ratulations of his team He looked relaxed and easy out here, the calm he usually affected true instead of fabricated I liked seeing hiaze I had no business even caring
As one, the rest started to the green with a clinking of clubs andpushed by the next teareen pants had been talking loudly the entire tiame off, no doubt, but Trent had outplotted corporate takeovers, evaded genetic trafficking charges, slipped htfor him to move faster would not break his cool
Sure enough, Trent needlessly fussed over the divot as the rest went on ahead, refusing to relinquish the tee area until he was ready S, the three other clubs he used clinking lightly as I came to take his driver I wasn’t a caddie, but it was the only way they’d let me on the course and there was no way that Trent would ever be in public without some kind of security
Even if he could take care of hi as I took his club and our separate paces became one My God, it’s nice out here
“Subtle,” I said as we found the rass, and he snorted to h him, but because I was one of the few people Trent would drop his mask around It shouldn’t have been that i?
“Watch the guy in the green pants,” he said, looking over his shoulder “He has a tendency to drop his ball into the players ahead of him”
“Sure” Head down, I paced beside Trent, his clubs banging into ed there al with him the last three months while Quen, Trent’s usual security adviser, was on the West Coast with the girls This new feeling ofresponsibility, I guess, bothered hts in quiet ht to take it
“Are you okay?”
I looked up, al “Sure Why?”
Trent’s eyes ran overfor the truth “You’re quiet today”
I was quiet today? Meaning we’d been spending enough ti a s to stay in the background”
He took it, eyebrows high, and I’d swear I heard hi up, he stepped onto the green and joined in the light banter between the other CEOs My heart was pounding, and I dragged my melancholy ass out of the way to rest under the shade of the storm shelter
“Just trying to stay in the background,” Jenks said in a high falsetto “My God, wolies, and get on with your life!”
“Jenks!” I exclai up his putt
S, Jenks landed on the stor over a se “That’s how pixies knoe’re in love,” he said as he folded his dragonfly-like wings and wiggled out of his red jacket, wincing as solow, she won’t say no”
“Nice” Arlad the girls were co up security, I’d be able to wrapconfused
“How’s Cookie Bits’s game?” Jenks asked “He looks as distracted as you”
Frowning, I raised my hand as if to bop him, but it would never land Cookie Bits That’s what Jenks had been calling Trent ever since he caught us sitting in his car outside the church after a job I’d only wanted to hear the end of the news, but try telling Jenks that
“Tink’s little pink rosebuds, the local pixies are more stuck up than a fairy nailed toa rise out ofred for a reason, not because I look good in it Look! Look what they did to my coat!”
Disgusted, Jenks held up the bright red jacket Belle had h a hole just under the ar tear in a neay A pixy wearing red should’ve been given free passage I’d been seely everywhere in Cincinnati with Trent the last couple of months, but the country club was the worst I hadn’t known Jenks was having issues He’d probably been too proud to tell me “You okay?”
Jenks froze, his pale face beco his shock of curly blond hair look evena pale yellow dust that colored hi black He looked like a theater guy, but the sword hanging fro fro me
“Yeah, sure,” he said, e arrohen I shouldn’t have to We’re cool as a breath strip” He squinted at ht? I’?”
“Jenks, I’le rising through me as Trent crouched to line up his putt Cincinnati’s ley lines were faint but discernible, the upwellings of power usable even at this distance if not for the course’s ward of no-ao But it almost felt as if there were a line the next hole over, and I looked back the e’d come
That bigbetween theoff, but even the practice swings were reen in one drive”
“Ah, Rache?” Jenks rose up, hovering byThere was the crack of a ball, and my heart ju the ball’s path