Chapter 30

"I was just checking the glasses" I threw my charming smile at Tyler, and turned to Charlie. "It was good to meet you.

He smiled innocently, throwing a kiss at Kendall before leaving. I took the time to check the expressions on each one's faces, before I said anything wrong. Kendall still looked humorous, leaning both hands on the internal counter. Tyler looked at me with suspicion, but slowly replaced his frown with a narrow eye. Dennis had wide eyes, and I wondered if it was because I imagined I had heard something. And then my look found Zachary's.

His eyes didn't study me like they did the last two times we saw each other, and I was content to think that he had already seen enough to care about my jeans or my cute sweater. He wore a leather jacket that night, the fabric adorned by small metal spheres on the shoulders, shining against the smooth surface. Above a white T-shirt, a curious ammunition-shaped pendant for rifle attracted my gaze. The golden leather cord reached th