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He hopped to his feet, and Grey got up to follow him.
“Stay,” he told Grey, and his son obediently sat back down.
Diesel paused in the doorway to the kitchen. “Oh. There was just one last thing.”
There was more?
“That business at Briar Hall this morning? What was that about?”
Of course he would know about that, though it didn’t keep me from wondering exactly how he knew.
“Just some cunt fucking around. Probably a prank. Doesn’t seem like the Ace’s style.”
Diesel shook his head. “No. Not their usual MO, but my guys are looking into it anyway.”
“I got this,” Corvus said, his shoulders flexing.
“Do you?” Diesel asked him. “Remember who runs those halls, son. Things like that can’t go unpunished. Clean it up.”
Corv nodded, and Diesel’s gaze strayed to me. To the blade I was unconsciously twirling between my fingers as I thought of brutal ways to use it against our mutual enemies and some of my own.
“And for the love of god, someone teach her how to use a fucking gun.”
Diesel left, but it did little to fix the knots in my stomach or the ones still burning across my back.
I stood.
“Where are you going?” Corvus demanded.
“Back to Briar Hall.”
“For what? It’ll be dawn in a couple hours. Not like you’re going to sleep.”
He wasn’t wrong.
“I have an idea,” Rook said, licking his lips as he rose from the couch, trying to dump the last few drops of his whiskey down his throat.
Corvus blanched, and I got the sense that when Rook had an idea it didn’t always end well.
“Let’s blow off some steam, yeah?”
He brushed past my shoulder on his way to the kitchen, his warmth and scent flooding all my senses.
“You coming?” he called from the front door, and the rest of us shared a look before following him from the Nest.
Anything was better than staring at the ceiling for the next four hours, right?
