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“Nyx?”
We both turned back to face Butcher at the same time. He wore a pensive expression, eyes trained solely on my best friend.
“Can I talk to you a minute?”
Taking that as my cue I pushed off the truck again, this time to give the two of them some semblance of privacy.
Not entirely sure what to do with myself, I decided now was as good as time as any to share parting words with Luce. He had just finished shoving the first-aid kit into one of the gear-bags when I reached him.
Remembering the cold look on his face after his whispered proclamation had me keeping an even amount of space between Zane and me. Not because I was afraid—not a single cell in my body was scared of this man. It was something…else. Something I couldn’t explain and was doing my best not to decipher.
It was strange.
It was beginning to aggravate me.
Especially since he’d had a gun to my head and continually put his hands on me without any fear or hesitation.
The first incident alone would have had any other man on the ground with my Kambit buried in their jugular.
But not this one.
And that made even less sense to me.
“You sure you want to do this?” Luce asked, zipping the gear-bag up and then holding it out to me.
“Are you talking about going to find the kids? Because I’m not giving myself a choice about that. If you’re talking about working with the piece of shit who had a gun to my head a few hours ago, you’re not giving me much of one either. Are you?”
“Your mouth is something else,” Zane chuckled.
“Good thing I don’t care about your opinion then isn’t it?”
He laughed and announced he’d give us a minute before walking away with a quiet, “You will,” ominously being left behind.
Luce silently glanced from Zane’s retreating form back to me, a blank expression on his face. His silence spoke volumes. I didn’t need him to fight any of my battles, but the fact he wasn’t saying anything at all unnerved me.
This was the part of me I hated, the one like mom. I hadn’t felt this many different emotions in ages.
“What the fuck is going on, Luce?”
“Nothing you can’t handle, Addy.”
Damn him! Murdering my brother was probably something our parents wouldn’t forgive me for, but I was so close to crossing that line.
“I’m going to come for you. You know that right?” he suddenly said.
“Yes,” I tersely replied.
“She has me, anyway,” Zane abruptly interjected, having crept back up as silent as a shadow.
I didn’t know what the hell that meant, and I wasn’t going to ask. If he was referring to himself as a means of protection, then that was just laughable.
I wasn’t the biggest, baddest thing in the Badlands, but I could make someone think I was.
They shared a look I didn’t bother trying to understand, and then my brother was staring at me again.
“As soon as Dad is filled in I’ll be coming with the acolytes.”
If you’re not burned on the Leviathan first. Another thing I was trying to not think about, how our Dad would react to all of this.
