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“Why do I sense there’s a but?” she whispered, not able to make her voice sound any stronger. Damn, she was pathetic.
“Because you’re not going to like what Flint found out.” Cam closed the gap between them and wrapped his arms around her. Despite knowing she probably shouldn’t, Macey leaned into him, inhaling his scent and relaxing ever so slightly.
“But they’re safe? And alive?” Possibilities flew through her head, ranging from the improbable to the absurd. But then again, if she existed, and the men surrounding her, then was anything really impossible?
“Yes, both. But Macey…” He looked away from her as if he was hiding something, though she guessed he was. If her arms hadn’t been twined around his waist, pulling him as close as possible, then she’d be biting her nails in nervousness.
“It was them,” Jared blurted out, receiving a sharp glare from Cam. Macey pulled away, standing between the two men.
“Them, what?”
“Them that caused all this,” Cam said softly.
“All what?” She wouldn’t believe it. It wasn’t possible. It couldn’t be, could it? Macey shook her head.
“They’re the ones that sent the fàth-fiata after you,” Jared said, placing a comforting hand on her arm, but she knocked it away.
“No, no, no, no.” She shook her head violently, the whole world going a little fuzzy. They had to be lying. And yet the serious looks on the two men’s faces was enough to tell her they weren’t.
Which was when it all went black.
She blinked her eyes furiously as she came back around. It took her a few moments to get her thoughts in order. Mostly due to how comfortable she was on whatever the men had rested her on. She sat up, fixing them with stern glances. They still had a lot of explaining to do.
“So, let me get this straight. You think my brothers pretended to be unconscious, created some weird fog and then planned... what exactly? World domination?” She laughed bitterly.
The guys wanted her to rest, blabbering something about her fainting twice in as many days, but by now she was sure that she hadn’t fainted that first time. Someone had hit her. And because her brothers were lying on the ground, it hadn’t been them. Problem was, the two men didn’t believe that theory. They found it much easier to believe her brothers were the culprits. Not that it made sense, not in the slightest.
“They’re already the crown princes and heirs to the throne, I’m just the third in line. So it’s not that. And I thought the fàth-fiata was just the magic mists someone uses to hide in? Not a conscious being by itself?”
They were staring at her, apparently waiting to see if she had finished. No, she hadn’t yet.
/> “So this... mist hit me on the back of my head, but then let you kidnap me, Cam? Without interfering? This doesn’t make any sense! Am I the only one who can see that?!”
“No,” Jared mumbled, “you make sense. Maybe we were a little rash in thinking it was them.”
Macey crossed her arms in front of her chest, the effect slightly marred by the fact that she was in bed, propped up by pillows. The guys hadn’t allowed her to get up... yet. She was going to need to pee in a moment, so she was sure they would let her do that.
“Where is Flint? He’s the one who said it was my brothers. Who’s his source?”
They looked at each other uncomfortably.
“He’s not been back in touch since he told me it was them,” Cam admitted. “I’ve been trying to reach him ever since you collapsed—”
“Fainted,” Macey corrected.
“... fainted. He seems to have shielded his mind, which he usually only does when he goes drinking or... ehm...”
Jared made a suggestive hand gesture and Macey laughed, despite trying not to. But her laugh was followed by a wave of jealousy taking hold in her heart. To distract herself from that unfamiliar feeling, she asked, “Why don’t you guys have phones? Who doesn’t have a phone nowadays?”
“We’re not on Earth. There are no mobile phone networks out here,” Cam explained and Macey cringed. She could have come up with that herself. But then, they still hadn’t explained where exactly they were and why they were living here in isolation in the first place.
“So what do we do now?” she asked, resulting in vague shrugs by the guys.
She groaned in frustration. “Okay, Cam, you keep trying to reach Flint. It’s strange that he would tell you something important like that and then just ignore you after. Jared, make us some food. We’re going to leave this place to search for answers, but not on an empty stomach.”
“Did she just tell us what to do?” Cam stage-whispered, staring at her wide-eyed.
“I think she did,” Jared whispered back. “I think I like it.”
