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“I take it you recognize our new arrivals?”
I nodded but kept quiet, watching the ladies approach.
“Nerine, let me introduce you to some new friends. Devani and Lilly. They are going to help me train you. In the next few months, you will learn things you would never have learned in any formal education institution.”
“Oh, don’t look so scared,” Devani King almost purred. “I have a secret to share with you. I’m not the bitchy socialite everyone believes.”
“What are you?”
“A girl who was a trained assassin by the time she turned fourteen.” She gestured to Lilly. “I taught this one everything she knows. And I’m going to teach you some of the same things.”
A shiver shot down my spine. Dear God. What had I gotten myself into?
Then Lilly smiled at me, her stormy eyes taking me in. “I’m going to do for you what your Papa did for mine.”
“And that is?”
“Teach you how to run an organization. You need to know how things work whether you take the helm or not. Also”—Lilly tapped her lip—“are you going to turn in your assignment? It was due this morning.”
“What assignment?”
I stared into Lilly’s stormy gray eyes resembling Theo’s.
After a few seconds, I remembered. I’d forgotten to turn in my training module from my mentor.
“You’re the hacker?”
“Among other things.”
“I think I’m going to be sick.” I dropped my head into my lap.
Nyx patted my shoulder. “You’re going to be just fine. By the time this is over, you may change your mind about leaving.”
“No, that won’t happen.”
“Then you train, and we’ll help make it happen.”
Eight
Theo
“Where the fuck is Nyx?” Simon Drakos asked someone from a hallway, making me shift my attention from my laptop as I sat at the long prep table in the kitchen of the Drakos mansion.
This was the space Xander and I had taken over as our workstation nearly every other day over the last few weeks. Since the sunroom or whatever they called it was off-limits, we decided to get as much work done as possible during the three to four hours we spent here.
Something in my gut told me this set-up would be coming to an end.
“Why would I know this? I’m your keeper, not hers. You’re the one who left her unattended for nearly a month and a half. Knowing her, she’s probably running an underground poker game right now in one of your ballrooms.”
I smirked, hearing Drakos’s second-in-command, Kasen Alexandros, answer. The fact Simon hadn’t killed him years ago for giving him shit right and left spoke volumes about the level of their relationship. Beyond being first cousins, they were the closest friends and told each other the truth, no matter how brutal. It was on a level with how Xander and I dealt with each other.
“You’re lucky that you’re still alive, asshole.”
“No, you’re lucky you’re still alive because of me. Ask Nyx, and she’ll back me up. And remember, you’re the asshole.”
As they turned around the corner entering the kitchen, both men abruptly stopped.
“Want to tell me why the fuck you are sitting here as if it’s teatime?”
