Chapter 14. Do Lots of Interesting Things in the Car

ROSETTE

“T-three thousand?” I ask, my eyes wide. “W-why? What…”

Axel walked to me and placed his arm around my shoulder. “You’re part of the family, sweetheart. You shouldn’t work at a fucking cafe.”

I turned and looked at him, having to crane my neck since he was so close. “Just like that? You’ll give me a card with that much limit just like that? There’s no strings? Nothing? I don’t have to work for it.”

Axel nodded. “Absolutely nothing.”

I shrugged his arm off me, suddenly sweating. “I don’t believe you. Any of you.” I bent and picked up my bag from where it had dropped at some point, swallowing to wet my dry throat.

A card with a three-thousand-dollar limit just like that? Yeah, that was a load of bullshit. I was a realist, not an idealist. You just didn’t give people money like that, something was always involved.

“I’m off,” I said, not looking at anybody as I turned.

I heard someone sigh, but I didn’t look back. Then Kross’s cool