by SM Reine
“He’s been making the crank calls?”
Suzy deleted the picture. “He wanted to pull me in on the weekends so we’d have to work together. When I confronted him with the evidence, he confessed to everything and asked me out. With flowers. Roses, meet trashcan.”
I laughed. I couldn’t help it. “He’s hitting on you by wasting company resources.”
“Shut up.”
“You’re his brightest star!”
“Shut up, shut up, shut up.”
“But Aniruddha’s been—”
Suzy silenced me with another hard smack on the back. There was nothing friendly about this strike. She was pissed, and it hurt that much more. “Like I told you, Hawke. It’s complicated.”
I slung an arm around her shoulders. I sympathized, I really did. And I was also incredibly relieved that the crank calls weren’t anything connected to fallen angels, their guardian witches, or horrible murder.
Maybe that was why I couldn’t stop laughing. The weight of the relief had left me dizzy.
“Suze, ‘complicated’ is our middle name in the Magical Violations Department,” I said. “And you know what? Drinks are on me tonight.”
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