Page 298 of Seer Prophet

“You must know, Revi’,” he said, conspiratorial. “You must know?youmust.If I die now, it will not be good for me. I will not go… to a good place.”

Revik stared into those amber eyes, at the expression there, the light shining through them.

He saw his fear. It felt utterly real.

More than that, he sawhim.He saw something he’d maybe never seen in Terian before, in all the years he’d known him. He saw a glimmer ofhim?as in Feigran, the seer he could have been, before Menlim and Galaith and whoever else got hold of him.

For an instant, Revik could only stare at it, lost in recognition.

“Get her the fuck off that stage,” he growled, releasing him. “Get her off there, and take us to the seers on the List. Then we’ll talk, Terry.”

Revik hadn’t even finished speaking when a smile split that face, relief pouring through Terian’s eyes and light so intensely, Revik winced back.

“No promises!” Revik snapped. “I mean it! I answer to her.”

“Thank you!” Terian leaned forward, kissing him on the cheek. He didn’t stop grinning when Revik pushed him off. “Thank you so much, brother! Thank you! Thank you!”

“Terry… cut it out. Jesus…”

“I’ll suck you off, if you want,” he offered, still clutching his arms. “Or you can do me, and your wife can watch. She would like that, wouldn’t she? Wouldn’t she like that, Revi’?”

Revik grimaced. “I highly doubt it.”

Even so, something in the way Terian said those words finally caused Revik to relax. They also made him want to laugh more than punch the other seer in the face?probably because he’d sounded a hell of a lot more like Feigran just then, than he had like Terian.

He glanced at the stage as he thought it.

Allie was already walking off the long platform, aiming the stiletto heels towards the dark blue velvet curtain on the far end. Disappointed calls from the audience accompanied her, but when her eyes flickered back over her shoulder, Revik saw them shift up, and again he found himself thinking she was looking in his direction.

Before he could make up his mind for certain, she winked.

…Right before a bare smile crossed her lips, and she looked away.

Chapter54

Regroup

Ifound them in the lobby of the club.

They’d removed the collar by then.

The orange-eyed seer met me on the other side of the stage, grinning at my half-naked and sweaty body before he twirled a finger in the air, indicating for me to turn around. He took the collar off me after using the retinal scanner to open the lock.

Once he had, he kissed the back of my neck.

I jerked away, giving him a dirty look, but he only laughed.

I changed out of the stage gear, although I wasn’t thrilled with what I was given to change into, also by the orange-eyed seer. I didn’t have anything else, so I took the clean clothes without protest, rinsing off in the shower in the back, and tugging on the new clothes over my damp body. All the while, I did my best to ignore the muscular seer who continued to stand in the doorway, making the occasional lewd remark that I ignored. I could feel him watching me through the material of the thin partition, but I ignored that, too.

The new outfit was better than the stage outfit, but not by much.

I was overly conscious of eyes on me as I exited through the door leading out of the backstage area and made my way across the open floor. I got a few drunken gropes as I passed, mostly from the same guys who’d been cat-calling me from the foot of the stage.

I felt Revik’s light snake out at the first of those. His light didn’t relax even after I jerked away, then promptly smacked the offending hand. I did it hard enough that the guy let out a surprised cry followed by a hurt-sounding whimper.

It didn’t stop the next guy from trying it, though.

…Or from sounding equally hurt when he got the same result.

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