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Hands circled my wrists and held them. “You’re playing a dangerous game, beautiful. If you don’t want us to drag you out of here and show you exactly what those things mean, you’ll need to choose a different topic of conversation.”
I sighed. “Can I have a drink first?”
“What can I get you?” A new voice spoke, and I turned to find a blue-haired fae behind the bar. He grinned and waved. “I’m Spiral. I’ll make you whatever you want. I’d shake your hand, but I don’t want the Pres to cut it off.”
“Wise man,” Silver rumbled.
“Nice to meet you,” I said with a laugh. “Surprise me with something fruity.”
“You got it.”
I leaned against Comet. “There’s plenty of things to talk about. Like the rules Silver mentioned.”
They drew me to the center of their circle, Grave lifting me up onto a bar stool. It wasn’t lost on me that they positioned themselves so no one else in the room could see up my dress. I hid my smirk. After so long dancing around each other, I liked them staking their claim.
“The rules are for your protection,” Grave said. I looked at him, and he laughed quietly. “Most of them.”
“Like?”
Spiral slid a drink across the bar to me. Aggressively pink liquid with a hint of sparkle. I never thought something that tasted like watermelon could be this good. “Holy crap.”
“That’s what I like to hear. Let me know if you need more.”
I probably would, because it wasdelicious.
“Okay, what are the rules?”
“No leaving the compound without an escort,” Wraith said. “At least for now.”
The bar was back to its full life. Laughter and pool games. A group of prospects were playing cards. This was more than a clubhouse, it was a community. You could feel it in the air. Everyonebelongedhere, and now I was part of it too.
But being kept within walls still scraped at my insides. “I expected that one. I don’t like it, but I understand it.”
Wraith laughed. “I’ll happily escort you if it means I get to gut some fuckers. Cause you better believe they’re coming for you.”
I frowned. “Can I ask for a history lesson? When you don’t take sides, things don’t matter. But now? Fang has it out for you, Silver. The whole Blazing Legion seems like they want to burn you on ash wood stakes and dance around to your screams.”
Silver snorted. “Thanks for that visual, baby girl.”
“But seriously,” I sipped my drink. It was disappearing faster than I expected because it was so delicious. “What did you do? What did they do? If I’m going to be in the middle of something, I should know the details.”
“The Legion don’t need a reason to be cock-sucking leprechauns,” Comet muttered.
I nearly spit out my drink.
Silver took a long, slow sip of his, pinning me with his stare. “The Blazing Legion was once much bigger than they are now. Multiple chapters in multiple cities. And they used to make their money by selling women. Whoring them out and selling them as slaves. Every race, the more exotic, the better. You know I don’t give a shit about what’s legal and what’s not, but I won’t sell people. So we… interfered with their business.
“If we found someone transporting people, they didn’t make it back to the clubhouse.” He shrugged, unbothered. “They lost a lot of members.”
“Besides not being a fan of slavery,” Comet said, throwing back a shot, “it was good for business. If people can’t find cheap sex, they’ll look for other things.”
“Like faery cocaine?” I asked.
“Shockingly like that.”
Silver chuckled. “We weren’t the only ones pissed. The Court of Sunlight was hit hard. They glow during sex, and that was a commodity people liked. They were the ones who decimated the Legion.”
Even the mention of the Court of Sunlight left a bad taste in my mouth now that I knew the truth. “They like killing people, don’t they?”
