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Alarm bells started ringing in my head again, but I pushed them away. We were friends. Of course, he cared about me.
"Do you think they could really do it?" I asked, lifting my head to look at him.
He blinked at me like he didn't know what I was talking about, then his face cleared. "I think they might have done it already."
The blood drained from my head at the thought, and I was lightheaded for an entirely different reason. That would be bad. It didn't matter that he hadn't told me before now; it wasn't like he owed me anything. All we had done before this morning was fuck, and the most conversation we had in the club was him ordering me not to hunt while inside. We didn't share secrets,and we didn't worry about things that didn't concern us. That was how we worked.
"I've got to go," I said as I detangled myself from his arms, and if his face looked a little hurt, I ignored it. I had stuff I needed to do, and if the demons were assembling, then I had bigger things to worry about than a demon prince.
CHAPTER 10
Raiden
"Jesus, Ty, knock it off,"I said as my best friend continued his description of his previous night. "I don't want to hear how you screwed your way through the cheer team. You're too old for them. You've been out of school for two years, dude."
"It isn't like they are in high school. All the girls are legal and very willing, I might add. You might learn some things, since you don't put yourself out there. Which you should, you're wasting your best years on celibacy."
"I've told you, I'm not interested in sleeping around like you. When I'm with someone, it is going to be special. You and your sister are so free with that kind of stuff," I said.
"Gross, don't bring my sister into this. Geez, way to kill a mood," he grumbled, and I couldn't help the grin that spread across my face. He hated the reminder that his baby sister was all grown up. I on the other hand, never needed a reminder.
"If I have to suffer while protecting her, then you get to suffer too. Did you know she is fuck buddies with a demigod?"
"Fucking Lex? I told him to stay away from her. I'm going to fuck him up," Ty growled.
"Really? She's a big girl, Ty. She won't like you interfering," I replied. If I hadn't thought she would castrate me, I would have stopped her last night. If I was brave and didn't value my friendship with her brother, it would have been me in his place.
"Why don't you date her?" he asked as if coming to a sudden realization, and I spit out the water I almost choked on as I took a drink before his unsuspecting words.
Coughing, I laughed like he had just told a joke. "What?" I sputtered. I could feel the heat in the very tips of my ears. My chest grew with heat, and the smoke leaked from my nose as I released a breath. He eyed my reaction, excitement almost vibrated through him.
"It makes sense. You're safe. I trust you." He paced in front of me like it was the best idea he had ever come up with, and I could feel the blood drain from my head.
"Ty—" He didn't know what he was saying. He would be pissed if I actually did what he was saying.
"Come on, for me, woo my sister, dude, or she might end up with that fucking demigod," he said with a shudder.
"She is too young," I protested.
"She is legal. She's twenty-two," he said with a roll of his eyes.
"She is your sister," I reminded him. I lifted my water bottle to my mouth again, now that I was relatively sure it was safe, and he wasn't trying to drown me in my water.
"That is kind of the point," he replied.
"I'm a dragon," I said.
"Yeah, I know," he said, like I was the one with the insane idea.
He picked up the weights again and faced the mirror. He focused on his reps as I mulled over his words. He wasn't serious, but they lit a fire inside of me. My possessive dragon took it as full permission to claim her and lock her in some cave somewhere, guarding over her every day, all day long.
"Are you gay, Rai? Is that why?" he asked in the way only Tyler could ask someone if they preferred the same sex. I knew that if I did, he wouldn't care one bit, since he had thought he might be gay before realizing he was bi. He would be hurt if I hadn't told him, but not if I was into dudes.
"I'm not, but she is your sister," I said. "What if it went bad?"
"No way. I see the way she watches you," he said with a grunt, as he lowered the dumbbells to the floor. "She's been in love with you since she was a kid."
"No, she hasn't," I scoffed, making myself busy selecting different weights to hide my expression from his watchful eyes.
