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"I'm just fillingout the paperwork and waiting for my coffee delivery and we should be good," I announced as I uncrossed my legs just to cross them again with my left leg resting on the right.
"I'll get the cars checked and ready," Saint announced. "Neo's doing one more round of security checks with Jayce on cameras."
I paused in reading yet another contract in the pile of contracts to look at Saint. "I thought you were going to help Jayce with security today so him and Neo would be on duty."
The sly grin only confirmed what this mischievous playboy devil had done.
"Saint," I huffed.
"Don't be mad," he whined while blinking his eyes innocently. He walked back to my desk as I lowered my pen and further leaned into my chair to cross my arms over my chest.
"Jayce has been doing security for like weeks."
"He likes his job," Saint reasoned.
"Just because someone likes what they do, that doesn't mean they wish to do it all the damn time," I elaborated. "I love beating the flying shit out of people in cage fights, but do you see me doing that seven days a week? No. It ruins the damn fun in your passion. Plus, it's exhausting staring at screens literally all day. I know Jayce is our top security man until we can find some trustworthy additions from our regular team, but c'mon. I feel like I haven't seen him since our last pack run, and we haven't gone for another pack run in a while."
"Full moon is coming up soon," Saint reasoned but was actually observing my seriousness. "I guess you do have a point. Want me to go switch with him? He can be the one to drive you tonight and Viktor can drive Neo."
"Why are we taking separate cars?" I asked before I gave him an appreciative smile. "Would you actually be okay with doing that? I just..."
"Miss him?" he asked, and I couldn't help but blush at the rather obvious observation.
"I guess. I mean, I'm getting close to all of you, but I feel like Jayce is always on the sidelines as of late: for missions, for business meetings, for basically everything. I don't know..."
"Wanna know a little secret?" Saint whispered and walked around the desk so he could literally kneel down at my side. I arched an eyebrow at him.
"That secret better not be a proposal because Onyx would murder you."
He chuckled and reached for my hand to turn it over so he could see my wrist - where the replica of the newly created bond was resting at my pulse point.
We'd yet to get a damn moment in time to figure out why tattoos were showing up on my legs - both of them were covered in various symbols - as well as how I’d apparently bonded with Saint.
I hadn't noticed the wrist bond mark until after we'd finished breakfast when it showed up as Saint gave me a quick kiss on that exact spot. Whether it sealed the deal or decided to make its grand debut was yet another mystery on the growing list.
Viktor had given me a brief explanation of what happened when he'd arrived and why he'd attacked Saint. Like Dimitris explained, Dark Lords were some of the rarest and most endangered wolf shifter types in the world, and they ate souls for breakfast.
Sounds dreadful.
The odd good side to it was that he couldn't just eat anyone's soul. It had to be someone with bad intentions against him: enemies, villains, people essentially plotting his murder.
He could taste a person's soul without killing them, but that just sounded a bit too crazy to think about. It was like licking a lollipop of your favorite flavor and not getting another chance again.
The cravings would be far too tempting to ignore.
Thus far, I knew Neo was a prince, and his power dealt with blood and his gravitational, bow-down-to-me-or-else move, and we knew Onyx was royalty of what I could safely assume involved shadows.
Saint was a Dark Lord and held both qualities of light and dark depending on the side of mental space he triggered. Basically, a human Yin and Yang.
That left me wondering what Dimitris and Jayce were. They were both questionable because I hadn't been able to see the extent of their power on the battlefield. Jayce knew how to fight in the ring, but there had to be an elemental pattern somewhere.
All of that thinking during the ride made me wonder where the hell I fit in. I was a wolf shifter hybrid with various magical capabilities, could change into a male at will now - or at least I was working on it - and had my rather psychotic side as a backup just in case plans went to shit.
That clearly didn't graze the surface of what I felt was my full potential. It didn't even consider what capabilities my wolf carried. So much needed to be reviewed and discovered, but we were purposely being filled up with so much other shit that it felt impossible to have a damn chill day.
"The holidays are a little hard on all of us," he admitted. "Especially Dimitris and Jayce. The greatest instances that changed their lives happened around this time, so they personally like to be by themselves and do things in the background if they can. It's not like they're avoiding you, but it's just hard for them to deal with their emotions."
I knew about Dimitris's situation now that he’d elaborated on it and knew of Jayce losing his mate to a hallucination.
