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I nodded, drawing my gun more out of habit than necessity as I tiptoed down the hall. There was no reason to be silent, though. Ghost came back down the stairs to the foyer at the same time Corv and Grey left the security room and I came back from the staff quarters.
“Empty.”
“Empty,” Ghost echoed with a laugh.
“Well this just got a whole lot easier.”
“You mean more boring?” I corrected Corv.
He rolled his eyes.
A cunning smirk spread on my Ghost’s lips. “It doesn’t have to be.”
She had me at the smirk.
I tailed her to the living room with the others following close behind me.
“What are you doing?” Corvus asked as she crossed the Persian carpet to fiddle with the modern sound system that looked painfully out of place among the cloth bound books and antique wood of the bookshelves. She plugged an auxiliary cable into her phone and flicked the dial, cranking the volume as one of my brother’s songs came on, blasting over the surround sound.
Hide and Seek.
I felt my lips pull into a venomous grin, watching her move on her toes, a sparkle in her eyes.
“AJ, what—”
Ghost slipped off her shoes and my jaw flexed, legs burning with something other than the pain they’d been made to feel the last few weeks. They burned with the need tochase.
Her shirt went next and she threw it in my direction. I caught it with one hand and put it to my nose, inhaling deeply.
She bounced on the balls of her feet, her tits heaving in the lacy bra she wore as she looked around her, and I could tell she was thinking of all the places she could hide.
“I’m betting you’ll never find me,” she shouted over the blasting music. Over Corvus’ haunting voice warning of the things he would do once he found his prey.
“Hide and seek, Sparrow? Really?”
I slung off the duffle bags and jacket, tossing it over the back of the couch, never taking my eyes off her. “You don’t have to play, Bro,” I growled. “I’ll gladly have her all to myself.”
“Fuck that.” Grey was already setting his bag down and Corvus cursed, rolling his shoulders back.
“You have until the song ends, Ghost. Then you’re mine.”
She took off like a shot, and I put her shirt back to my face, breathing deeply of her before discarding it on the couch with my jacket. Instinctively, I bent at my knees, ready to give chase. I listened hard through the music, trying to hear her on the stairs. Or above on the second floor. But she was too good for that.
I smiled to myself, my fingers twitching as the song came close to its end.
The others weren’t here anymore.
There was only me andher.
The predator.
And the prey.
The final note chimed and another song began, setting me free like the shot of a gun at a fucking horse race. I darted from the living room, catching the edge of the wall to slingshot around to the adjacent hall, my chest growing with each breath as I charged to the kitchens.
I heard my brothers on the stairs, but they weren’t my prey. And they wouldn’t find her.
Iwould.
