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“It’s…primal. And…”
I ran a hand through my hair growing uncharacteristically frustrated.
“Adelaide.”
I glanced over my shoulder at, Cam, who was approaching with the map in his hand.
“That’s all you need to know. It’s Adelaide.”
I raised my brows at him. “That doesn’t make any fucking sense.”
“It’s as simple as the sky being blue and the sun being hot. You two got a long ways to go yet. Stop trying to make sense of it and just let shit be.”
I watched him spread the map across the table.
“He knows,” Trix said without turning away from her task.
“I figured it out before we even left Copperfield. I figured this was coming.”
“Nothing to say about it?” I waited for him to tell me what everyone else did. I was a sick piece of shit like my father
He sat down, and his silver eyes met mine, showing nothing but something akin to mutual respect. “Nope. I know my girl. I don’t know you, but you’re not him. I won’t intervene in anyone’s personal relationship; just know I have no problem ever stepping in if she needs me.”
The my girl shit irked me. It wasn’t meant in the same way that I used it, though. I was now beginning to understand that. I didn’t care about having his respect or not, but I was glad to have it nonetheless. I stood, rounded the table to the curio cabinet, grabbed a bottle, my bag from a chair, and then headed for the stairs.
“We leave at sundown,” I called over my shoulder.
At the top of the stairs, I went for the bedroom all the way at the end on my right-hand side. I’d heard this door shut earlier and knew Addy was on the other side.
Pushing it open, the sound of the shower running greeted me from the attached bathroom.
I slipped in and used my boot to close the door, taking a look around the room. It was simple. A queen sized bed was centered with moss colored linen, matching dressers, and a flat screen.
Sitting the bottle down on a nightstand, I removed my shirt and then plopped my ass down, reaching into my front pock
et.
I could hear muffled crying from behind the bathroom door.
I wanted to shove an arrow through the skull of whoever took her friend away.
Also knew she needed to cry now and get it out of her system. I didn’t feel any sympathy for her. Sympathy was easy. Empathy, however,…empathy was my understanding that it could have easily been one of mine that we lost today.
This was her parents’ fault for keeping her so sheltered while trying to tell her what the Badlands was all about from within a secured compound.
Addy was a self-indulgent princess who had always been protected. That was in there, she was out here now, with me. It was time someone showed her what the Badlands really was.
I knew she would be just fine, though, because I’d been right about her.
She looked like a deviant angel, and behind her eyes lurked something savage.
Chapter Fifteen
Quindecim
The water was ice cold.
Like tiny razor blades dragging over my skin. I welcomed the stinging sensation, but it did very little to take away the ache in my chest.
