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I had checked about half the pieces before, trying to move them with no avail, but I couldn't get that feeling out of my system. Ilifted my arm, my fingers hovering over the queen for a second before I pulled and it lifted from the board.
“I thought the pieces were glued down?” Cosmo asked, disbelief coloring his voice.
“They are, all of them but this one.” I set the piece in the same dark square, F7. “Checkmate.”
As soon as the words left my lips, a spell was triggered, and four spots of the board glowed. C4, E1, E4, and E8.
Four squares, four numbers for the safe. “4,1,4,8,” I whispered just as Avery gasped.
“Oh, shit! Try the numbers. Try the numbers!”
Avery’s excitement spurred my body as I twisted around and put in the numbers. The sound of the locks sliding and the pop of the door opening was music to my ears. I opened the door and stuck my hand in. Curling my hand around a small brass key, I yanked it out.
“Man, you’re a fucking genius!”
“Hell's, ya!”
“Great job, Falc.”
“Three down, two to go.”
My lips twitched. You sneaky little wild one.How did she know something like this was going to work on us?
Chapter 8
What the fuck isthat buzzing sound?It was starting to grate on my nerves, chipping away at my steel-like attitude. As soon as it stopped, I took a breath.
With all of my knowledge and all of my experience with Rayla, I'll admit, she got me. I did not expect her to lock me up in a room with her other mates. Making this her own little form of soft-core torture.
"Now, we just need the soldier boy and the angry wolf to find theirs, and we’re free!"
I slid my eyes over to Avery, glaring at that flamingo-haired fucker. How dare he make it seem like I'm on the short end of thestick. Like I was somehow less than them. My muscles grew tight as my veins raced with rage.
I wasn't about to tell them that I found numbers on the backs of some leaves on the fake plant in my area at the beginning. I found the key to opening my safe before any of them found a single thing. The four numbers that I was sure would open my safe as soon as I found it. My eyes twitched as tension filled every cell in my body.But where the fuck was it?!
Lex laughed in agreement while Falcon stared at the key, giving him a short, clipped nod. I was sure Ax was saying or growling something, but I couldn't hear him with the rush in my ears. They were laughing at me, disrespecting me.
When Rayla ended up having more than me as a mate, I couldn't help but feel like it was payment for all the secrets I kept from her. I deserve to suffer for that. I knew that, but then I realized that even if I told her all those years ago, she would’ve eventually met these guys later down the road, and it would’ve been inevitable. They are Syndicate.
Over the past few months, I’d been telling myself the same thing. They are Syndicate, I don't have to like them, but I do have to respect their position in this organization. I might not have been born into this position, but I’d made it my own through blood, sweat, and exhaustion.
I usually kept my rage on lock, always letting Ray be the crazy psycho one since one of us needed to be level-headed, but Ray wasn't here, and the flood gates were open.
Stepping up to Avery at the speed of light, I blinked, and his neck was in my grasp as I held him suspended in the air. His eyes wide as I caught him by surprise. His fingers clawed at my hand around his neck, not expecting me to take it this far.
"I take all of your shit all day long. You think that the "soldier boy" won't fight back?" I squeezed his throat hard enough to make it sting. "I lived in an orphanage for unwanted supes before Ternin picked me up, don't think that I won't bite back. The Syndicate has taught me to take my time and wait it out," I bent toward his ear, "for the right time to strike."
Letting my fingers uncurl, I dropped him, but the sneaky fuck he was had his wings snap out right before his ass crashed into the floor. I stared back at him, glaring up at me as he coughed, rubbing at his throat.
His raspy voice came out. "What happened to the silent yes man?"
I folded my arms. "That's just for Rayla.”
You lot, I can fuck with, just as long as I give your body enough time to heal and don’t kill you, it should be fine. The one thing I’ve learned over the past six months was that these guys were not snitches. If they really fucked with each other, they made sure it was behind Ray’s back. If they got caught, they would be in for a punishment, and no one wanted a Rayla punishment. Current circumstances made that point loud and clear.
"Ooohhhhh." Lex rubbed his hands together, his eyes twinkling with excitement. "Looks like little Cosy's got claws, and he wantsto come out and play." His excitement at the thought of us fighting was like ice water to the fire in my veins, causing my brain to turn back on as I exhaled.
I chose to ignore Lex and the grumbling fairy as I turned and went back to my section of the room. They all might see me as some stupid orphan, or still have thoughts about me being raised as her brother, but I was also her mate, and they needed to know that. Needed to respect that fact.
