Page 9 of Darling Wildfire
“Is Atlas back?” I asked.
“Yeah, I’m dragging him along too,” Nyx grinned.
“Good—I’ve been meaning to tell him how insufferable you’ve been with him gone,” I teased.
“You too?” Nyx groaned. “Traitor. Lach already tattled on me. You guys make me sound like some lovesick puppy.”
I raised my eyebrows, a grin pulling at my lips at the apt description.
“Okay, okay,” Nyx laughed. “So maybe I don’t know what to do with myself when he’s gone—whatever.”
He threw his gym towel at me before putting on his shoes.
“So you coming tonight or what?” He asked.
“Nah, Kaelin is making dinner—I think she wants a date night with thethree of us because we’ve been so busy over the last few days.”
“Ah, to be a fly on that wall,” Nyx smirked, winking at me as he grabbed his gym bag and slung it over his shoulder.
I laughed. “Hey, you just have to ask the boss, and I don’t mean North.”
“Funny, North said the same thing.”
I’d gotten the feeling they’d all shared women before, although Nyx and Atlas were in a relationship with each other—cue the lovesick puppy reference, even though that failed miserably to describe the way they looked at each other. It was more like two gods sending smoldering waves of passion crashing between them at any given moment. It was enough to knock anyone close to them off their feet—even someone as straight as me. Maybe because they were both two extremely masculine men—rugged, violent and vicious—and it was fascinating to see them come together with all that power—I shook my head. North and I weren’t bi but there was no denying we loved the power exchange we got during sex and part of me wondered just how hot it could get if the five of us were in a room, maybe with North directing—fuck.
“It’s hot to think about isn’t it?” Nyx smirked, and I looked over to see him watching me with a smug expression on his face. He headed towards the door. “Say hi to Killer for me,” he called over his shoulder, using the nickname Knight had coined for Kaelin when he’d come along with Cal to rescue us in the woods.
Neither of us had realized it in the beginning, but having North around also meant we’d see a lot of his personal TAC team. Some of them were quiet and evasive, like the Russian Volkov Brothers, but others like Nyx, Atlas and Lachlan were really hard not to like. Even West, North’s tech genius, was fun to be around—that is whenever he decided to come out of his cave.
But I knew Kaelin was right—North was hiding something—something his entire team knew about and was executing behind the scenes. I was okay with not knowing, for now, but when shit got hot—and I knew it would because it’s North—I was going to need to know. I just hoped he’d be forthcoming but again, knowing North, I’m sure it wouldn’t be that easy.
6
THERON
“What is this?”
I came out of Kaelin’s study holding a copy of an email.
She looked up from where she was making dinner. Graham wasn’t at the house yet and it was just the two of us.
She raised her eyebrows. “Snooping again?”
“How long have you been getting death threats?” I demanded.
She had the nerve to wave her hand in the air like it was no big deal and went back to chopping up a potato.
“I get them occasionally,” she said vaguely.
“Did this start before or after the Warren?”
She looked up at my tone and frowned as she studied the way I was clutching the paper.
“Since before—”
“When were you going to tell me?” I demanded angrily.
I pulled out my phone and opened my messages.
