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I checkedmy phone again for a reply from Rook as I waited in the atrium, but none came, and I scrubbed a hand over my face, feeling the prickle of day-old stubble. I needed a shave, and probably a fucking shower, but after we discovered the security guard, Mick, was missing, I needed to figure out why.
All security footage of Monday morning last week had been scrubbed from the drives. It went black around three in the morning and then flicked back to life around seven, when the first of the students began to wander downstairs to find the pornographic photos.
It drove me to madness thinking there was someone else in the academy, just a couple floors below where Ava Jade slept. She’d been alone. It didn’t matter if it was an Ace or her stalker. In either case, the person had wanted to hurt us, and I couldn’t think of anything that would hurt us more than something happening to that girl.
Groaning, I texted Rook again.
Corvus: Where are you guys? The bell rang five minutes ago.
I punched the elevator button and waited, giving in to the urge to go up there and see for myself, even though I knew damn well what I could be walking into. Imagining their bodies tangled together, flushed and violent, made me almost crack a tooth.
I knew when Grey wandered home several hours after I left the rally field exactly what happened when I left. He had that rocks off glow. The one he rarely got from fucking Brianna, but I knew the face. Nail marks all over his neck and shoulders told me the rest.
I didn’t ask because I knew it would only stoke the internal flames to know whether or not they had her at the same time. Without me.
It had become something of an unwritten rule from the start with Ava Jade; that she wasn’t interested in choosing. That she would take her pleasure from each of us as she wanted, without asking permission. Without guilt.
The guys and I had shared before. A handful of times. But those women never mattered to us. Not like her. And my inner beast roared that she belonged to me even though the still rational part of my brain was almost glad she’d found a home in my brothers’ hearts, too.
It was the only way she could be one of us.
It couldn’t work any other way.
I jerked back as the doors to the elevators opened and Ava Jade and Rook stepped out.
“Hey, Bro,” Rook said nonchalantly, his hair damp from a shower. Ava Jade’s was dry and styled in a high ponytail with little pieces left out to frame her face. Either she blow dried it or they didn’t share a shower.
I stuffed the need to know down deep, burying it.
It didn’t matter.
“Lose your phone?” I found myself growling back at him.
He tapped his pocket. “Nope.”
“I texted you.”
“I saw. We were on our way down. I knew you’d be waiting here.”
“Where’s Grey?” Ava Jade asked, peering around the atrium for any sign of him.
Grey entered through the front door five minutes later than he said he’d be and came over to us, a curious knot in his brows. “Thought you’d be in class, didn’t the bell—?”
“I was waiting for them,” I interrupted him, indicating Rook and Ava Jade. “You get those books handled?”
Grey nodded. “Yeah. All taken care of. I have more news, too.”
“What?” Sparrow asked.
“The alliance with the Kings is official. Dies made the move last night.”
I didn’t miss how Ava Jade’s fists clenched at her sides, at odds with the next words to leave her lips. “That’s good, right?”
Grey’s lips pressed together. There was something more.
“Apparently they weren’t satisfied with an alliance in name only. Victor asked Dies for our crews to meet in good faith.” He paused. “So, Dies has welcomed them to join us for the next fight night.”
“Fuck.”
