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“I’m telling the truth.” My voice trembled. “I don’t have it.”
“Then who does?” Lex asked.
“I don’t… I was just asked to take it, and I did. It’s out of my hands.” I moved aside, but Jagger moved with me.
Flint glared at me for a moment before tearing open my dresser drawers, then my closet. My clothes spilled out everywhere. Jagger was in my way, so I had to stand there and watch Flint and Lex tear through my things. I didn’t have much besides my clothes, a fact they soon realized after doing a quick locator spell. The assholes. Why didn’t they start with that? Did they throw my stuff around just to intimidate me? They only succeeded in pissing me off.
“It’s not here,” Lex said.
“Just like I said.”
Flint’s mouth pressed into a line. “Fine, then. If you won’t talk, we’ll have to take you with us until you do. We have ways to get the information we need.”
That sounded ominous.
“Take me?” My eyes widened as Jagger grabbed me by the shoulder and turned me around. “Take me where?”
“That’s not your concern,” Flint said, putting his hand to my forehead.
An electric spark went through my head, and everything went black.
Chapter5
Jagger
Iput Arden’s body onto a chaise lounge in one of the palace’s offices. The spell Flint had put on her was still in effect, so she dozed, curled up as she had been when we’d broken into her apartment. She looked innocent. Almost.
I gazed at her long, lean form. So fuckable. She’d thrown on shorts, but they weren’t hiding much at all. I smirked. We dealt with fae like this all the time, ones that thought they could best us. They weren’t nearly as hot as she was, though.
It was a shame that we’d probably have to torture her for information. The thought made my cock hard. Maybe even kill her.
I ran my hand through my hair. I didn’t flinch away from killing anybody who got in my way most of the time, but now something in my gut twisted at the idea.
“How did she manage to break into the palace relatively unnoticed?” Lex asked, crossing his arms over his chest. “If it wasn’t for our security systems penetrating her glamour, she might have gotten away with it.”
“Let’s ask her again.” Flint waved his hand over her head, making her wake with a gasp.
She flailed around, nearly falling off the chaise before righting herself.
“Where am I?” She looked around. Her wide eyes narrowed the longer she took the room in. “What happened? Did you abduct me?”
“We needed to bring you here, and you weren’t going to go easily,” Lex said. “Flint knocked you out with a spell.”
“What the hell is your problem?” Arden glared at Flint. “I would have come if you asked me to.”
I laughed. “You’re joking, right?”
“Okay, fine.” She squeezed the bridge of her nose. “I probably wouldn’t have. But did you really have to use a spell like that? My head is killing me. I can barely think straight.”
“You have one more opportunity to tell us where you put the artifact,” Flint said.
She pressed the heels of her hands to her brow, like she was trying to piece together the memories.
“I don’t have it!” Arden flopped back onto the chaise, making her top ride up her stomach. “Do I need to tell you in another language? I don’t know where it is.”
“That wasn’t the question.” Lex crowded her. “We’re asking where you put it.”
Arden glared at him, as if Lex couldn’t suck the air out of her lungs without moving an inch.
