Azin smiles and nods, hands up as if to reassure him even more than she already had. "Of course, I don't plan to ask again unless it's actual life or death." And she leaves it at that, because she won't even verbalize that the ball is in his court after this. He made it crystal clear to her that he doesn't like communicating like this.
She paused, proving that she was in fact thinking. She had spent so much time telling him what she could give him that she hadn't explained what she wanted from him. Obviously, this was two halves of a coin, she wasn't just feeding and sheltering him for his winning personality.
She read his words on the paper and nodded. What wasn't obvious, so the rules of the house didn't need to be explained again. "Your job is guard dog, that will be your first duty, first and foremost. Once you get a little more familiar with the compound, you'll be in charge of security, which is a big task force right there, it's just you. In the morning and the evenings before we lock the house down, if you see something, either alert me, you'll have a pager system, or handle it." She shouldn't have smiled at the last suggestion, but grief could make her a little vicious. Had her vicious little smirk mimicked the ones Gabe had given her before? Yes, perhaps, definitely.
"If there is a different detail, then I'll inform you, and they'll be coming soon. If I need you to handle something, I will let you know. And that something is mostly intimidation, but sometimes you must get your hands dirty, very dirty. We cleaned, or we did. I did." She spoke a language she trusted Gabe would understand.
There is no more 'we,' Azin, and you'll be wise to remember that.
The thing was, no one had seen Azin since Jay's death. Everyone assumed she was a ghost now, and she was going to have to make a grand entrance again into this world, and it would be Gabe at her side.
She had some business to settle. She wasn't completely sure if it was Finlay who did it just because he could, or if someone had sent him.
She was already thinking she needed to shake down a dear old friend, and that would be Gabe's first test. She wanted to make it clear to Fale that she was not working with him anymore, and who better to get that point across than Gabe, the dog he didn't want her to get. "But if it helps you to know what our days will be like, I can do that."
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