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an only child with two cousins, including Light, and two aunts, including Light’s mother. Of course, I didn't mention that we were secretly known as the last of the Credence bloodline, a topic that was way more complicated than I cared to delve into… ever.
    I liked the fact that he didn’t dig into my family dynamics. He just accepted. I also didn’t dig into his family life. He had none. His mother died years ago and left him nothing, so he lived with Liam in a rundown apartment.
    I broke out of my trance when I felt the oppressive cloak of a dark presence approaching—Kaydee. My eyes narrowed as she strode toward us like a toxic dark cloud of dust, wearing jeans so tight I wondered how she could walk without tearing the seams like an angry green monster. My lips pursed with disgust at her tight, ripped from the neck almost to her belly button, black T-shirt with a faded eagle. It was just tacky.
    “Knox, it’s time,” Kaydee purred, deliberately ignoring me as usual, letting her obscenely long, fake nails trail along the bunched muscles of his shoulder.
    I barely squashed the urge to shove her hands off. I didn't like her. Shit, no female that encountered Kaydee liked her. She was too fake, from her overinflated breasts to her ass implants. Even her long ombre-blond hair mixed with gawd-awful jet-black highlights was hair extensions.
    I smiled smugly when he shrugged Kaydee’s hand off his shoulder. “You do see Stormy standing here?”
    With an air of forced nonchalance, Kaydee mumbled, “Unfortunately.”
    He was pissed; I could tell by the way his voice rumbled like a freight train. “What did you say?”
    She jammed her hands on her narrow waist. “You know how I feel about her, Knox. And I would take pleasure in making her”—she stepped forward—“disappear.”
    “Don’t even dare.” His voice boomed as he pushed me behind his wide, muscled back.
    Outraged, I tugged on his shirt, trying to step around him as he clutched me against his back with arms of steel. I wanted to scream that I was more than capable of defending myself against her.
    Kaydee sneered, speaking in that acidic tone that I despised. “You won’t always be there to protect her, Knox. Look at her? She’s nothing but a weak—”
    Oh , hell to the no. “Please let me go, Knox. I’ll show her weak,” I hissed.
    I swore that his wolf tattoo rippled before he responded to Kaydee, totally ignoring me. “If you even breathe on her, I won’t be responsible for what I do to you.”
    Kaydee’s mouth formed a big O of shock as she held up her hands and stepped back. “Don’t you see what she's doing? She's destroying everything. She's not worth it.” She pointed at me with her ugly finger. “Plus, she's playing you with that boyfriend of hers. I've seen them together.”
    I sputtered. “What? That's a damn lie.”
    I could tell he was furious by the way his body shook violently as he tried to get his temper under control, and it didn’t help that we were drawing an interested crowd.
    “Stop , Knox. She's not worth it.” I pressed my face against his back, wrapping my arms around his waist, relieved when I felt his anger ebb away.
    He hissed. “You are fucking close to being dropped, Kaydee.”
    She let her cool mask slip, showing the real Kaydee. The cruel, spiteful Kaydee. “You won't. You can't. Not after what I've done for you.” Her body was vibrating violently as she stamped her feet like a spoiled child throwing a tantrum. “You fucking owe me, Knox.”
    I looked from Knox to her, in shock. What the hell? He owed her what?
    His fists clenched and unclenched. “I don't owe you shit. My debt was repaid in blood years ago. So don't even think for one second that I won't walk away from you.” His stance widened. “There are managers who would be more than happy to take your place. Don’t ever forget that.”
    “Look, I'm sorry.” Kaydee swallowed nervously. “We've come too far, Knox. For years it was just