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We stay pressed against the wall and each other for a while until my dick softens, and I can pull out of him. The same as earlier, he whimpers at the loss of contact, so I press my lips to his shoulder.
Someone clears their throat behind us. And I know it’s Tobias. I can feel his arousal loud and clear and his presence behind me. Turning around, I see Tobias leaning against the door frame.
“Thanks for the invite,” he says, and Kalen chuckles, stepping out of the shower and reaching for his towel. He moves toward Tobias and pecks his cheek as he stops beside him.
“He’s all yours,” Kalen chuckles, and Tobias’ eyes darken, turning a deeper shade of red as his fangs protrude. “Kalen!” I hiss, but he just laughs as Tobias kicks the door closed and starts tugging his shirt off.
“I thought we had to speak with the recruits?”
“We have plenty of time. Aleera and Darius aren't back yet,” Tobias says, gripping my shoulder and shoving me against the shower wall.
“Your ass is mine first,” he laughs. I roll my eyes, and he sinks his teeth into my neck.
ChapterForty-Five
Aleera
I almost stumble back as the full realization of what I had just said hits me. I understand it, but knowing it and believing it are two different things. One does not want to believe they were raised by monsters. Because if they were monsters, what would they make me?
My mother? I can’t believe that she’d been the source of everything that had terrorized us for so long, or was I missing some vital piece of information? I had uncovered so many secrets, yet not nearly enough to have a clear picture.
She’d been the one that had ruined everything for us before we even got to begin, yet no matter what, something still feels off. Too many secrets and too many lies. I wonder when it would come full circle, when the lies would pile too high and it would break down the walls and spill only truth.
“No,” Darius whispers. He shakes his head. There is no hesitation in him. “Don't blame yourself, Aleera. You couldn't have known,” Darius tells me, feeling my tumultuous guilt. Darius opens a portal leading back to our room. Reluctantly, I step through it to find Kalen getting dressed.
“I was wondering where you two went,” he says. I swallow, picking up on Darius' nervousness behind me.
“Everything okay?” Kalen asks me, and I nod, moving toward Ryze, where he is perched on the windowsill. I scratch his tummy feathers.
“Where are you going?” Darius asks Kalen.
Kalen seems to be in a very excitable mood today. I can’t help but notice the change through the bond.
“Into town, we need more phoenix food.”
“Not by yourself, you're not,” Darius tells him. Kalen smiles at him as he does up his shoelace.
“With you and Aleera, of course,” he says, tying the other shoelace.
“I am not sure about Aleera going into town, Kalen, maybe you both stay here, and I will go. It is safer that way,” Darius says.
“Safer by yourself? Have you forgotten what she is? The safest place is beside her, and god help you if you are against her,” Kalen chuckles, and I smirk.
“Really?” Darius says, eyeing me cockily.
“Yep, if she wants to, she would cook your ass, and you know it,” Kalen says, nudging him. I fold my arms and stare at him.
“Hear that, your ass is toast,” I tell him. Darius chuckles, shaking his head.
“Don't get too cocky. Everything you have done is ruled by emotion. You may have infinite power, Aleera, but that doesn't mean you know how to use it.” I roll my eyes at him, turning back to Ryze.
“I know how to do one thing,” I tell him. “And what is that?” Darius whispers, making me jump when I find he is suddenly behind me.
“I can control the phoenixes. If I can't fry you, they will for me.” Darius laughs and looks down at the crates of birds.
“Those plucked dodos look really dangerous,” he says, and I lean forward and peer out the window seeing the biggest of my flock flying up high in the sky with the others.
I whistle and stand back. We hear a mighty screech before the wind, as loud as a hurricane, blows past the windows as he flaps his giant wings outside the window looking in.
