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Corvus choked on a reply as Grey gripped him by the shoulder and hauled him back with a grunt.
“Stop.” Grey’s voice resounded in the elevator.
“Just stop,” he repeated as I gasped for a full breath, still keeping a wary eye on Corvus. Grey was giving his brother the same look, though his was tainted with worry and something else I couldn’t name. I got the feeling Corvus didn’t often show his anger in a physical way. He reserved that level of animosity just for me. “When was the last time you slept?”
“Don’t fucking start,” Corvus sneered. “You try sleeping with no goddamned door handle, see how you like it.”
“Right, becausethe flooris so much more comfortable.”
Corvus glanced between Grey and me, his right brow lowering in question. He hadn’t expected that. Did he really think I was letting Grey cuddle up to me every night? Even after hisapologyTuesday night, I wasn’t about to go soft. It was a release I needed, and I could already feel that pressure building again, but it didn’t change anything.
They were still my enemies.
“Want to trade?” Grey pressed, challenging his brother. “I’ll take no door handle over rock solid floor any fucking day.”
Rook raised his hand, a sly smirk tugging up one corner of his mouth. “I’ll trade,” he crooned, eyeing me up and down. The path of his eyes leaving a scorching heat everywhere it touched, making my insides squeeze. “Anytime.”
Corvus scrubbed a shaky palm over his face as he sighed. “Fuck it,” he said finally, dropping his head as he shook it, inhaling deeply. It was as though I wasn’t even there anymore and I realized he’d just gone back to ignoring me. Pretending I wasn’t there was easier than admitting I was getting to him. That I wasalwaysgetting to him.
Under his skin.
Into his head.
I could see it.
And I fucking reveled in it.
“Let’s go get this pick up handled. The sooner it’s over the sooner she’s out of my sight.”
My chest squeezed, and I swallowed hard to squelch the unwelcome sensation, strutting from the elevator as though I didn’t have a care in the world when the doors opened.
“Sounds peachy to me.”
I thoughtI had some idea where we were headed, at least for the first hour of the drive. But now, closing in on two hours of driving, I needed to admit I had no fucking clue where we were going. The fact they hadn’t even blindfolded me yet told me there was still a decent amount of ground to cover. So much for making it back in time for late night movies with Becca.
I grumbled wordlessly to myself, almost as loud as the growling in my belly, as I checked the map app on my phone again. Still heading south. We were basically in the middle of butt fuck nowhere. This county road seemed to lead to some tiny place called Eugine, but as far as I knew there was no Saint presence this far away from Thorn Valley. And I’d been doing my research, a lot of it.
Grey’s gaze flicked to me in the rearview, his reflected eyes falling to the device in my hand before flitting away again. It wasn’t the first time I’d caught him watching me, or rather, watching my phone, and my reaction to what I’m looking at on its screen.
He wasn’t sold on the idea that my little outburst earlier in the week was nothing. I didn’t think any of them were, but Grey seemed the most suspicious. The others, at least at the surface level, seemed keen to just let the whole thing drop.
I thought I’d better send a quick reply to Becca’s earlier texts since they’d likely be taking my phone and putting it into airplane mode around the same time they blindfolded me.
Becca: Hey girl, where are you?
Becca: What time are you coming back later?
Ava Jade: Not sure and not sure. Sorry. I’ll let you know when we’re on our way, though.
Another text pinged through before I could repocket my phone.
Becca: Are all the guys with you?
Ava Jade: Yeah. Why? Everything okay?
She took so long to reply this time that I almost called her, wondering why she’d want to know where they all were. If she was in some sort of trouble. Diesel-sized trouble. I wouldn’t put it past him to use her against me in the trials, but if he did, it would be a massive mistake.
My finger hovered over the dial button when her reply came in.
