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She reaches up and kisses him on the lips. “I’ll be home for dinner. Kai said these things don’t take too long.”
“You’ll be home for lunch if we have anything to say about it.” Dar laughs.
“Soon.” Belle kisses me. Her lips brush tenderly against mine, and I’m a half second from throwing her over my shoulder and taking her to the bedroom when she pulls away. She squeezes my hand. “You’re not invited.” She points at Nico and then me. “Understood?”
“Yes.” I’m smiling, but I don’t mean it.
“I go where I want,” Nico growls back.
“So do I,” Belle says and closes the door.
Nico brushes past me on his way to the bedroom.
“Where do you think you’re going?”
“I’m following them.”
I go after him down the hall. “Nico, give her some space. You think a good ten of Kai’s fathers aren’t going to be there? There will be so many Drakos males around them there won’t be any space to walk. She’ll be safe.”
“Drakoses are Glyden.”
“Exactly, safe,” I add.
“Our lobby, the symbol of our dome, was attacked. No one else is as much of a symbol as Kai.”
I freeze. In a way, he’s right. But we need to give Belle this. “Fine, we can go, but not now. We’ll go and collect her in a while. Let me show you something first.”
Nico pauses but then nods. “What is it? I thought you only acquired a name from the Braesen tech.”
“Yes. But this?” I hold up the signal notification for the Centauri. They’re in range and not cloaked. He takes it from me.
“They’re off the coast of Florida. In light cloaking.” Enough to keep them safe from human detection, but not enough to keep them out of our own. Or the Vikings. “They’ve surfaced.”
“They’ve got to be transferring the women.”
“Have you messaged them?”
“No. Do you want me to contact Broderick, or do you want to do it?” I ask because Broderick’s the new commander of the Centauri. The one who replaced Nico.
“You do it. He likes you better.”
I shrug and walk down the hall to the communication terminal in the other corridor. There’s nothing else in the room. I sit in the chair, and Nico hovers over my shoulder. I should tell Nico to cod off, but it won’t work. And Nico’s right, Broderick does like me better. A short time after Broderick took over as a first officer, he came to me more than once trying to understand Nico. The first time, I laughed at him, told him there was no understanding my older brother. The second time, I realized Broderick’s a deep kind of male who needs to understand people on a deeper level—he wanted to understand Nico’s motives. After that, we had long conversations about more than just Nico but about life and what he wanted and what it was like growing up as the youngest of ten males with no sister.
Do you have the human women? And I need to talk to Kappler.
I put it all out there. If they’re about to dive again, I might not be able to contact them for a long while.
If I tell you that, I’ll have to kill you. I can hear the laugh in Broderick’s voice as he types. He’s joking, but I understand the sentiment.
It’s not the first time today my life has been threatened.
Just once? Nico’s falling behind. Shit, I miss him. He understood my relationship with Nico. I glance over my shoulder and raise my eyebrows at my brother.
“Get him off the small talk and back to the main point,” Nico growls.
“I’ll let him know you said as much.” Is there any way we could talk to the females or Kappler?
Despite being the best at electronics and fabrication on the ship, Kappler hates blocks. He hates anything that can track him. So having Broderick get him is the only thing we can hope for.
