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“Want me to keep a certain green-eyed busybody away for today’s lessons?” Stevie asked.
“As if that is even remotely possible.” Nyx gave Stevie a deadpan stare.
“Then what do you propose we do when he decides to supervise? And you know he’s going to want to supervise.” The annoyance in Stevie’s voice made me think she was more of a friend to Nyx than exclusively a bodyguard.
Nyx smirked and scanned me from head to toe before saying, “Nothing. The asshole I love called and said he has to fly to Greece for some emergency negotiations for a shipping contract. He may not be back for weeks.”
Stevie cocked her head to the side. “Let me guess. Your brothers are involved in this business?”
“Why would I know anything about my brothers’ dealings?” The smirk on Nyx’s face said she was well aware of everything going on. “What I do know is that I’ve got this one all to myself and her husband won’t have any objections to lessons from me every day if I request them.”
This woman seriously had some balls of steel. She gave no fucks at all.
* * *
“What do you think?” Nyx asked as we entered the solarium.
The space gave the feel of an enchanted garden, where the sun shone through the glass walls in beams of light onto the incredible array of plants around the space’s edge. But what made this room unlike anything I’d ever seen were the cases of weapons and armor situated at various points around a giant training mat.
“Is this your gym?”
“Almost every other day while I’m in residence.”
I studied her, taking in her complete confidence in who she was. She appeared to be the Mykos Hellion turned refined Drakos wife to the outside world. However, everything I’d learned in such a short time told me it was all a guise, and she’d never truly conformed. Instead, she’d just learned to manage her reactions more.
As if sensing my scrutiny, Nyx made a circle with her body, hands out.
“No, you aren’t in the twilight zone. And yes, I’m the same person from last night. But, I behave because that will cause the least amount of issues for Simon and my brothers.” She shook her head. “The shit a girl does for the people she loves.”
“You are seriously like no one I have ever met.”
“I can’t wait to introduce you to my other friends. They are going to blow your mind.”
I gaped at her, dumbfounded.
“No, seriously, those women scare the shit out of even me. But every girl needs a tribe, right?” Before I could answer, she added, “Now, with you in the mix, I won’t be the youngest. You are like a baby. What are you, twenty-four?”
“Umm. Not yet.”
“You are the baby. Let’s hope they don’t put a hit out on Andraius before Simon sets his plans in motion.”
I decided to sit down as my mind started to whirl.
Sliding to the floor, I stared up at Nyx. “Why are you being so open with me? I don’t understand any of this. Nobody is this free with a person they just met. Just put everything on the table. What do you want from me?”
Nyx approached me and kneeled, her almost black eyes peering into mine. It was as if she saw something in me I wasn’t aware of myself or maybe had forgotten about.
Whatever it was, my stomach was uneasy, and I braced for her words.
“Do you know what New York society called me as a teen? Hell, they called me that name until I married Simon.”
I nodded. “You were the Mykos Hellion.”
“There is nowereabout it. I’m still that same girl. I’m just better at camouflaging it.”
“And what does that have to do with me?”
“You are the younger, Boston version of me. My brother Tyler mentioned you years ago, so I had to see for myself. And he was right. You took shit from no one. Didn’t they call you the Angel with the tongue like a viper?”
