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The night was just chock full of surprises.
38
NEVER
The ornate handle turned smoothly in my angry grip, and I had to force myself not to rip the door open and tear the ship apart looking for that asshole.
He was gone when I woke up, which shouldn’t have been a big deal. He was a captain, and probably busy doing captain-y things.
That was what I’d tried to tell myself, anyway, until I’d spotted my clothes in a pile on the floor and found my necklace was missing.
When I get my hands on him, I’m going to kill him.
The light ocean breeze cut right through my still damp clothes as I slipped out of the room, but I was too pissed to give a fuck about being cold. As long as it didn’t make me shiver uncontrollably and drop my blade, I was golden.
Did it strike me as odd that the man took the pendant and not my knife? Yeah.
The pendant was my way home, Matty’s way home, and that sonofabitch had stolen it from me. I knew it had some kind of nifty magic, but it wasn’t like the damned thing worked with any level of consistency.
So why take it? This place was straight up his home, his realm.
Unless he took it just because he was a royal dick. That could easily be why. Or maybe it was worth something. Or maybe he was just a misogynistic bastard who liked to trick women into thinking he was all wounded and damaged.
“Fucking pirates,” I muttered under my breath. The words were barely out of my mouth when I caught the sound of his irritated voice coming from around the corner. He sounded like he was in the middle of a heated argument.
Should I wait or just barge the fuck in?
Yeah, I slammed the door open and spotted him behind a large desk, hands pressed flat to the surface and an intense look on his face.
“Give it back.” I had no idea what kind of reaction I was expecting, but the way he narrowed his eyes and curled his lip wasn’t it.
“No.”
“It’s not yours.” I demanded, doing my very best to sound authoritative. “Give it back.”
The orange ring around his irises glowed threateningly. “No.” He said it slowly, drawing out the single syllable like I was too stupid to understand it any other way.
“You fucking asshole! That’s my ticket home. It’s the way to get my brother home. Which, yeah, I don’t have him yet, but I will. And when I do, I have to be able to get us both back.” I shoved my hand out, palm open, and gritted my teeth. “Please.”
Some of the anger drained from his face and he leaned back, narrowing his eyes. His gaze darted to my left, and that was when my genius brain remembered I’d barged into the middle of another argument.
I snapped my head around to see which of his pirate buddies he was quibbling with and nearly stopped breathing. “Adonis?”
Hook snarled something under his breath and Adonis took a step back, dipping his head to hide his smile. “Leo.”
I knew that. Shit. But that didn’t mean I wasn’t still pissed. “Leo, cool. Fucking wonderful. Are you two in this together?” I motioned between the two men. “Is this some kind of twisted game you two like to play?”
He flinched at the venom in my voice, and his gaze flicked to Hook. “What is she talking about?”
He ignored the question, keeping his eyes pinned on me. “Thisis Adonis?” His voice was low and ominous, and I felt something tug a warning in my chest.
Was hejealous?
I licked my lips, my heartbeat thrumming in my chest. “Just give me the necklace.”
“Oh,” Leo said. “I forgot to mention that, didn’t I?”
We both turned to glare at him.
