I shook my head. “No, but I’m hopin’ for a girl. A boy might turn out like his pig of a father.”
Cala blinked her eyes a couple of times, then flicked them between myself and Kane before clearing her throat when the elevator came to a stop and the doors opened wide.
“Follow me, please.”
She all but ran out of the elevator ahead of Kane and myself. It made me snort.
Kane growled from behind me, “I’m glad your rude ass attitude amuses you.”
“So am I,” Ireplied sarcastically.
I walked down the hall and followed Cala into an apartment that was bigger than my current one, but absolutely freezing and dusty as hell. I coughed and put my hand over my mouth.
“It will be cleaned before you move in if you decide on this apartment.”
I nodded to Cala then asked, “Can I look around?”
“Of course. Take as much time as you need.”
It wasn’t going to take long—my answer was already no.
I walked through the apartment and frowned when I spotted not only dirt, but mould on the bathroom walls. I stepped into the bathroom to get a closer look and screeched when I looked into the bathroom and saw the biggest spider I had ever seen in my entire life. It was the size of my bloody head.
“No!” I shouted and all but ran out of the apartment. “Not this one.”
“What? You didn’t even-”
“There is a tarantula in the fuckin’ bathtub. This place is a no!”
Kane blinked at me then looked at Cala. “Uh, this place is a no, Cala, sorry.”
“No worries. The next apartment is up on the sixth floor. Up we go.”
The second apartment was in this building?
Ugh.
We re-entered the elevator and I was twitching and itchy because I felt like the spider was crawling all over me.
“Aideen?”
I didn’t look at Kane as I said, “What?”
“Don’t move. There is something in your hair.”
I instantly began to scream as I whipped my head back and fourth in a way that would have made Willow Smith proud.
“Get it off. Get it off. Get if off.”
“That is the opposite of not moving!”
I squealed and buried my face in Kane’s chest when he grabbed hold of me. He locked his arms around my body and it halted my movements.
“Stay. Still,” he ordered.
I whimpered into his chest and cringed when I felt his hand on my head.
“There,” he said seconds later. “It’s gone.”
I stood rooted to the spot. “What was it?”
“Just a little bit of cobweb.”
I bet it was really big—he wouldn’t have spotted it otherwise. He just said it was small to make me feel better.
“I don’t like it here.”
Kane sighed, “Let’s just check out this apartment, okay?”
No.
“Fine.”
“Come on, Cala is holding the doors open for us.”
I moved away from Kane and walked by Cala without looking at her. I waited for her to walk around me so I could follow her to the next apartment. Kane was behind me as we walked, but he was a lot taller and I was curious to know what—or who—he was looking at. I would have put money on Cala’s arse, but when I glanced over my shoulder, I was surprised to find his eyes locked onto my arse.
“What are you doin’?” I asked, irritated.
I really wanted to smile though.
Kane flicked his eyes to mine and said, “Enjoying the view. Do you mind?”
I turned my gaze forward and shook my head, a smile stretched across my face.
“Number six-zero-eight, this is apartment number two.” Cala smiled as she stopped outside said apartment.
I swallowed as she opened the door and gestured me into the apartment. I was hesitant, but when Kane snorted from behind me I grunted and walked in. It was the same layout as the apartment downstairs, but it was clean.
Very clean.
“This is better,” I murmured to myself.
“Again, take all the time you need.”
I heard Kane say something Cala, but I didn’t know what it was because I was already walking down the narrow hallway to the bathroom.
Please, no spiders.
I slowly opened the bathroom door and observed it from the hallway for a few seconds. I planned on walking inside and making sure there were no spiders, but I panicked and backed away.
“Kane,” I called out. “I can’t look. You do it for me, please.”
Kane walked down the hallway, snickering and shaking his head at me. He walked right into the bathroom and slowly spun around checking out the entire room. He looked at me and shrugged. “It’s clean.”