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“You’re tellingmethis?” I laughed.
Arden snorted, and Flint even cracked a smile.
“I’ve never seen you this pissed off before. I can pretty much feel it through Arden.” He put his arm around her shoulders, and Flint held her hand. “I’m just saying that I’d tear his head off in an instant if I were you.”
He was right. But killing him would only hurt us in the end.
We reached the high rise. Instead of waiting to go up the stairs, Jagger and I shifted into our alternate forms, flying up to the top floor while the others secured the exits. I circled the building until I spotted the apartment with the most garish design. Definitely Elias.
A crash from the other side of the building caught my attention. Jagger and Elias, in his dragon form, tumbled through the sky, skidding across the top of the building next door. I flew over, diving straight down at the pair. Jagger rolled off of him just in time, and I crashed into Elias, my teeth bared. The impact was so powerful that the concrete beneath us cracked.
My jaws were around his neck, sinking in enough for him to bleed. Jagger hovered above us, lighting Elias’s tail on fire. Elias roared in pain, curling up on himself in a submissive position. He shifted back, so I did as well, despite how much I wanted to bite him in half.
“You trying to run, you cowardly fuck?” I growled, pinning Elias to the ground. “Why’d you run?”
“Fuck you, Lex,” he hissed.
I punched him across the face with a loudcrack. He groaned, but I hadn’t knocked him out.
“Why’d you run?” I repeated.
“Why do you think?” He scoffed. “You know who I’m associated with. I knew the moment Keane died because of that spell, so I ran. But now that I’m here, I think I’m going to use it to my advantage.”
“What do you mean?”
“You need information on the Forsaken Lunars, don’t you?” Elias asked. My eyes widened, and he smiled. “Keep me alive, and I’ll tell you.”
I growled, punching him again just because I could. But that wasn’t satisfying enough for me. I pulled half the air out of his lungs with a twitch of my hand, and he clawed at my fingers. I held him in place until enforcers made it up to this building and took him away.
I’d hoped that him being out of my sight would stop the blood from pulsing in my ears, but it had only intensified. How did he know about the Forsaken Lunars?
Chapter61
Arden
Lex still had dust from crashing into the roof of a building on him, but he didn’t move to brush it off. He just paced across the room as the enforcers set up Elias’s holding cell. They’d cuffed him and put a muffling spell on him so he couldn’t talk. But I needed to know what he knew about the Forsaken Lunars. Were both of the groups after me working together?
The enforcers finished securing the cell and let us inside the hallway that led to Elias’s cell. He was cuffed, but his hands were in front of him, and his ankles were free. He wandered around like an agitated house cat in front of a window.
Flint and Jagger stood on either side of me, but Lex came up to the barrier. We were able to reach inside, but Elias couldn’t reach out, so Lex put his hand in just enough to wave away the muffling spell on Elias.
“The Forsaken Lunars,” Lex said. “Tell us everything.”
Elias smirked. He and Lex had the same eye color and hair, but something about the way Elias’s features fit together made him look sinister.
“I can tell you one thing—the enemy of my enemy is my friend. The Forsaken Lunars are my enemy, so in this one instance, the Royals are friends,” Elias said. “And I can help you take them out.”
I didn’t trust him, so I took his words with a chaser of skepticism. But was he being partially honest? Did he have the key to all of this? The Order had been operating in the shadows for hundreds and hundreds of years. They might have had all of the connections to the dark underworld that we never even dreamed of.
Lex scoffed. “No, we aren’t friends. How are the Forsaken Lunars your enemies as well?”
Elias shrugged, a smug little smile spreading across his lips. “Can’t tell you that. Not unless you let me go.”
How had Lex managed not to punch him in the face again?
“Why would we ever let you go?” Flint asked, crossing his arms over his chest. “You’d tell the Order to kill Arden. Or you’d do it yourself. We can always torture it out of you if we have to.”
Elias crossed his ankle over his knee and leaned back, as if we were sitting in a meeting room and not in a jail cell.
