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“Yeah, our justice system doesn’t see it that way.”
“Curious. We take revenge very seriously on Deruzia.”
“Perhaps, but this is Earth. And everyone in the world would notice if he’s gone.”
“Did he do something to you?” Nazyn asked in a growl.
Darcy hesitated. “Not now.”
So he had done so in the past. Sins didn’t simply vanish. “Why did he come after you?”
“Because he’s insane. And my ex-boss,” Darcy said. “And my ex-boyfriend. Meet The Asshole.”
A fresh wave of anger threatened to seize Nazyn’s mind again. He fought against it with all his might. So this was the human who’d left Darcy with those fears she couldn’t quite keep hidden.
Everything made so much more sense now.
“Nazyn?” Darcy asked.
“Yes?”
She pointed at Richard. “I think he’s running out of air.”
The man’s face had turned an alarming shade of red.
Nayzn grunted. “We’re already late for breakfast anyway.”
He dropped Richard, who landed in the pool, an ungraceful mess as he flopped around. And ungrateful, too, because as soon as he was free and could breathe properly again, he bared his teeth at Nazyn.
What in the Nines was this creature thinking? Nazyn could have bested him in one snap, now he was signaling he wanted to fight?
Nazyn crouched down, grabbing the back of Richard’s neck with his left hand, his right gripping the metal bars of the ladder.
“You will never touch her again. Don’t come near her and stay out of our business,” Nazyn whispered, calm and icy. “Do you understand me?”
Richard shook his head, beads of water flying from his beard.
“I didn’t quite hear you and you have full capacity of your lungs now.” Nazyn dug his fingers into his scalp. “Do. You. Understand?”
“Yes,” Richard hissed.
This human didn’t know who he was up against. Nazyn leaned forward. “Do not count on your fame to protect you. Nobody can find your body through the portal. I know of ways to make you disappear you can’t even imagine.”
To emphasize his point, Nazyn flexed his fingers against the ladder. The metal caved in on itself as if it was made of paper.
Richard’s eyes glistened with terror.
Good.
Perhaps he understood now.
Nazyn let him go for the last time and rose, turning to Darcy. “You must be famished.”
“I–” She blinked from Nazyn to Richard. She finally nodded to herself. “Yes, I am. And we’re late.”
“I saved you a plate.” Nazyn rested his hand against her lower back, guiding her toward the door. As they exited, he glanced one last time at Richard.
The man’s head bobbed out of the water comically, but there was pure hatred in his dark eyes. He would want his revenge for this slight, Nazyn could tell.
