Chapter Eleven

Six and I took Dorian and Kennex up to the sparring area. I got down the Sai. "Did either of you want history on this weapon?" I asked.

Dorian's face was blue, so I knew he was accessing the history. "Sorry, Dorian. I should have just asked Kennex." I looked at Kennex. "No. How do you use them?" I showed them both then Six and I started fighting with them. Then I turned and gave mine to Kennex. "Go ahead. Six will have less of a chance of cutting you."

Kennex was horrible with the Sai. He was not light on his feet at all. Six was patient but Kennex got frustrated. Dorian and I sparred with the Sai and that was fun. I pulled down the mace. Kennex did better with that. The handle was long and he had a tendency to use it like a club. Six pulled down the short sword and shield. Kennex was good with that. I sparred with him using those. I think he was amazed that I could keep up with him. I beat him. We broke for lunch.

I finished the fettuccini Alfredo and put some on a plate for Kennex when he made the remark again that I was scary. "You should see her on Halloween. She's really scary, then," Six told him. I flipped him off.

"When do you sleep?" Kennex asked me.

"At night. Like you, funny man," I retorted.

Kennex kept looking at me while eating. "Something on your mind, Kennex?" I raised my eyebrow at him.

"I'm trying to figure you out," he told me.

"Why?"

"You're not like anyone I've ever met. You are a fantastic cook, a vicious fighter, and bloodthirsty."

"Um, yes. I'm a woman. Probably good for someone along the lines of Attila the Hun, but we're fresh out of those."

He didn't say anything to that and kept staring at me. "Look, Kennex, Don't overthink it. I'm course, rude, mean and funny. There's not really a whole lot to me."

He looked like he didn't believe me but stopped making weird remarks while he finished his lunch and changed the subject.

"You still going out with Harris?"

"No, we've stopped seeing each other," I told him. Six and Dorian settled in and just watched. The fuckers.

"Why?"

"Do you really want to know or are you trying to make conversation?" I queried.

"Both," he replied.

"He wanted something more permanent and I'm not interested in that."

"You don't want to get married and have kids?" he asked me.

"Nope. What about you? Are you interested in that?"

"I was," he said.

"With Anna?" I asked him.

"Yeah, with Anna."

"Mm. That makes sense. Do you think you're still interested in that?"

"I'm not sure."

"Well, I hope you find out you are, because it would be a shame for her to have taken that from you along with your leg," I told him.

Dorian and Kennex ended up spending the day with Six and I. We watched Resident Evil movies, I made dinner then kicked them both out telling I'd see them at work tomorrow. I looked at Six "This was weird, but fun. Next time, let's just spend the day with Dorian."

"Deal."

We saw Dorian and Kennex at work the next morning. I'm glad Kennex hadn't shown up for breakfast. Sometimes that guy was exhausting. We just nodded at them as we went about our day. "Am I as exhausting to you as Kennex is to me?" I asked Six in the car. "Only when you haven't had sex in a while," he told me.

I tilted my head. "Good to know."