Page 54 of Treasure and Tarot

It seemed to him as if they had a situation.

The problem was, it was a really, really,reallygood footage situation, and if he did something to screw it up, Law and Gent might just castrate him.

“They deserved it. Lousy cheats, the bunch of them.” Thierry snarled, and Colton blinked.

“This was over a game of cards? You killed three little children over a card game?”

Thierry curled his lip. “I killed the witnesses, I killed one whore, and I killed three alphas who were too stupid to understand they had a wolf in their midst. Eventually, she would have had them all.”

Colton was absolutely one hundred percent over his head on this, and thank goodness for Hank who spoke up.

“Listen, Horus. I’m sorry. That your omega was unfaithful. That Lazarus found pleasure in the arms of another alpha. That had to hurt, and it was wrong of Josephine to sleep with him, but everyone else was an innocent party here.”

Thierry turned and roared at Hank. “There are no innocent parties here!” Pictures rattled on the walls and a couple of knickknacks jumped off a shelf and shattered.

“Nonsense.” Colton had had enough. “My daughter. My Abby, she’s innocent here. Absolutely so. And so are me and Sebastian both. As far as our love affair goes, we are at no fault here. I didn’t do him wrong, he didn’t do me wrong, and our little girl is innocent.”

“For now,” Thierry said. “But are you sure he always will be true to you, your precious omega? Are you sure he hasn’t found succor in the arms of another. Maybe one of my descendants will seduce him. Take him and fill him with seed that you and your broken self can’t.”

Colton rolled his eyes. His leg might have been hurt, but God knew his prick wasn’t. The fact was that he really had outgrown that whole penis measuring nonsense. Sebastian had waited forhim for a long time. Sebastian was in love with him, and he was in love with Sebastian, and they had some shit to work out, but fidelity wasn’t one of the problems. “Really? You can tell you’re sort of backwater, Horus. My leg isn’t the best, but I’m better than you.”

Another roar came from Thierry, who he hoped to fuck wasn’t going to charge at him. Because he couldn’t hurt Thierry to get to the spirit possessing him right now. Medium or not, no one signed up for that.

“What he said,” Mason snapped. “You’re so fucking puny that you have to use someone else to do your freaking dirty work.”

“Whoa,” Iago whispered, watching with huge, wide eyes.

“I know, right?” Law was panning, trying to catch all the action while trying not to jerk at each new wild thing, he was sure. Keep it smooth was Law’s first rule.

The whole place seemed to shimmy, and that was a little scary, but then sparks seemed to fly out from Thierry’s hair, which was standing on end, and from his fingertips, and he screamed.

“No! You will not hurt these people! You will go now, Horus Marken! You will leave this place! I call upon the other spirits to help me drive you out!”

The lights flickered one more time, and then there was a sound that could have been straight out of a 1990s mummy movie, like it was a special effect. Like a soul leaving the room with a roar.

And then it was quiet, the old chandelier in the hall the only sound, squeaking as it swayed. Well, that and their harsh breathing.

Then Law broke the silence. “Holy shit.”

Colton forced himself to chuckle at the camera. “Well, that escalated quickly.” He turned to Thierry, catching the guy as he stumbled. “Thierry, are you okay?”

Theirry glanced up at him, his eyes back to the slate gray sort of color they were naturally, his face pale as milk. “I could use a hamburger and a chocolate shake.”

That had him barking out a laugh, because he was expecting tofu or tea or something.

“There’s a food truck out by the park on weekdays,” Mason said. “They have burgers and stuff. Closer than the hotel.”

“Sounds great. Iago, why don’t you use Thierry’s rental and take him? We’ll shut it down, then meet you and take food up to the folks at the hotel for a change.” He knew Sebastian would want to hear them go over everything and watch the playback.

Mason snorted. “Yeah, I imagine that bunch would hang us by our toes if we didn’t wait for them to get to the nitty-gritty of all this.”

“You know it.” Law shut down the camera, then started for the downstairs, where the brain center was set up. They needed to check all the equipment and unplug and make it safe if they had to move fast when they came back.

It had been a wild ride.

And they had a lot to talk about.

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