After the old healer left, Teddy poured himself a glass of whiskey. Kamya was still nursing her drink when he came back and sat across from her.
"This wound have anything to do with your illegal activities?" he asked.
Kamya shot him a glare. "We were having an almost pleasant moment together and you had to go and ruin it, didn't you?"
Teddy wasn't really sure why Kamya would suddenly participating in a smuggler's ring. She had raised Lilith after her parents had died. He had always thought her a generally good sort but now she was acting more weirdly than usual.
"They have anything to do with Lilith's murder?" he asked suspiciously.
She gave him a dark look. "Watch yourself, pup."
"You know anything about who killed her?"
"Why do you think I would talk to you?"
"I'm trying to find her killer." He bit out. "Or don't you care about that?"
Her lip curled. "Just because you two were lovers doesn't mean you have the monopoly on grieving her." She topped her glass off with the second beer he had left on the table. Her actions were cool and precise, no different from how she always acted.
"You have a funny way of showing it," he ground out.
Kamya took another prim sip from her beer. "You'd be happier if I was sobbing on your shoulder? Confessing my sins?"
"Sins?" Teddy prompted, hoping she'd slip something. Give him a clue to what in Merlin's beard was happening.
She rolled her eyes. "I didn't murder her and my illegal activities aren't hurting anyone."
"How can you be sure?" he countered. "It's at least endangering the creatures whose parts you are smuggling."
"You sometimes forget things, Teddy, since you have that nice cushy job you got with the help of our savior Harry Potter."
Harry hadn't helped at all when it came to Teddy's getting into the Auror program. Not even to tutor him. Teddy was about to point out as much when Kamya continued.
"You forget how hard it is to hold a job in our world when even pushing up your sleeves" -she did so and revealed bite marks on her forearm- "will get you fired from a job. No questions asked."
