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“I honestly can’t tell if you’re going to mount him or murder him.”
Chapter 6
Quilla
I jumped and whirled toward the second person to surprise me in the past ten minutes.
The woman who stood there gazing at me with an arched eyebrow looked somewhere between evilly entertained and pleasantly bored.
She always had a way of looking at me as if she didn’t give a fuck, all the while caring so much she judged and critiqued every action I made. It was a talent only Melaina could master.
Dropping my sword I hadn’t even realized I had lifted, I turned back to the slumped man at my feet. “He found me again.”
“So I see.” Melaina strolled up next to me and stopped. “And you let him see your true identity this time.” She shook her head, tsking in disappointment. “Very unwise, Quilla.”
“It wasn’t my fault; he caught me unaware.” I scowled at her, fully prepared to defend myself more, but she nudged him with her foot and rolled him from his side until he landed completely on his back, his limp hand flopping out next to him.
“Damn.” She gave a delighted shiver once he was facing up and revealing his fu
ll masculine appeal. “But he sure is a sight for sore eyes, isn’t he? Just look at that face. So strong. So young. So mouth-wateringly gorgeous.” Crouching next to him, she ran the back of her fingers along the very same jawline I’d just been appreciating.
Something about her stroking him in the sensual, slow way she was made my insides squirm and scream with this insatiable desire to pull her off him.
By her hair.
I glanced away so I could stop seeing it. “He got smart,” I muttered. “I didn’t realize he was following me this time.”
“So I guess this means we need to kill him now, hmm?”
“Yeah,” I mumbled, swallowing as I glanced down at him again. “I guess.”
“Well, then.” She pushed to her feet before dusting her hands against each other as if clearing them from all guilt and accountability. “Don’t let me stop you.”
My heart stuttered in my chest. And a sudden idea occurred to me. Sucking in a hopeful breath, I glanced up at Melaina. “Did you get in to see the jeweler today?”
“I did.”
Oh, thank God.
“And?”
If the jeweler had the amulet we needed and she was able to get her hands on it, maybe we could just leave the Outer Realms here and now and never come back; problem solved. There would be no reason to kill anyone to keep them from chasing and killing me. Not even this man could follow me out of the Outer Realms.
“And he didn’t have the amulet,” my aunt reported.
“What!?” No! We needed that amulet more than ever. I narrowed my eyes at her. “Do you think he was being honest? Maybe he really did have the amulet but just—”
“Oh yeah.” She sounded sure of herself as she pressed a hand to her plunging bustline to swear by her honesty. “He was still loopy from a post-orgasmic high when he told me, and it’s basically impossible to lie then, so he couldn’t have been dishonest.”
“You had sex with him?” I exploded incredulously, only to pause and send her a tight smile before answering myself, “Of course, you did.” This was Melaina we were talking about. She never turned down a chance to copulate.
“And he gave me a new lead too.” She wiggled her eyebrows in self-congratulations. “He swears a pearl collector in Tyler told him about having an amulet like the one I described.”
“Tyler? But we just came from that direction.” We had literally passed directly through Tyler on our way from Kole up north to Pinsky. Why hadn’t the guy in Kole just told us about the Tyler jeweler?
“These damn gem dealers are beginning to piss me off,” I muttered. “I swear, they’re just jerking us around on purpose and leading us on a wild goose chase.”
“Well, if they were, it’d be your fault,” Melaina felt the need to impart, “since—you know—you stabbed the last one we interviewed.”
