Page 45 of Our Haunted Omegas
“Teal!” Indigo said, pulling his brother into a hug.
“Do I need to pick up Crilus?” Teal asked.
“No, he’s flying out. Just give him time,” Cobalt shook his head. The world was foggy through the big glass doors but all the links we shared filled in the gaps enough for me to discern what the heck was going on. “Did you pass any of the guards on the way here?”
“Not yet,” Teal shook his head. “No one’s out on the road. I’m going to go out and secure the area. I just wanted to make sure you all were alright.”
“You shouldn’t go alone,” Indigo said.
I opened my mouth to tell my mate not to volunteer to run off to where a murderous extremity was but I didn’t need to.
“I’m not alone. Some of the guys from the thing are with me. Armed to the teeth. Then again, we’re always armed to the teeth,” Teal laughed.
“Don’t bejewel your teeth again,” Cobalt sighed.
“It was once. When I was twelve and what’s the use of having huge dragon teeth if you can’t decorate them?” Teal laughed, walking backwards out of the bathroom.
“Alpha?” Odie said once Cobalt was off the phone.
“Yeah?” he moved to stand in the front of the shower door.
“You’re bloody.”
“That happens,” Cobalt nodded.
Indigo nodded at me and I opened the door at the same time he shoved his brother under the water. Was he in shock from what happened? I wasn’t sure. I wasn’t a doctor. Seeing fucked up shit had a way of messing with your head. Hell, maybe he was fine, and his dragon was in control and unbothered by the buckets of blood clinging to his skin.
“I was going to say no,” Odell whispered. “It wasn’t a nice thing to do but he didn’t deserve to die for it.”
***
Half an hour later, we were all clean and mostly dressed on the porch, ready to meet the guards whenever they got here. How were they getting here so quickly? How had Teal arrived in what must’ve been ten or fifteen minutes?
“They flew,” Cobalt said and I blinked. I almost told him that our mating links must’ve gotten crossed somewhere, but it was the group link or maybe a new family link was forming around the five of us. “The first guards to arrive will fly as well. Though, one of our grandparents will probably beat them here. Maybe. They’re probably still arguing over who’s coming and who has to stay home with the kids. Clarence will show up, though, because at the end of the day Medwin’s dragon won’t leave the little ones.”
He stood behind Odell, with his arms wrapped around him. The shorter man’s eyes were shut, and his thoughts were dark. I wasn’t sure if he had closed himself off from the world or if against the odds he’d fallen back to sleep on his feet.
“If it wasn’t a wraith, what was it?” Indigo asked, repeating the question that had been passed around since the four of us were reunited.
“Not a wraith,” Odie said without opening his eyes.
“Are the woods haunted?” I asked, slipping my leg over Indigo’s.
We sat on a porch swing that was as long as our sofa back home. He pulled both of my legs onto his lap and rubbed my calves. I let my eyes drift shut too. Had something followed us or from the city or had we woken something up out here? A man was dead from a shadowy thing cut through him. The image replayed through Cobalt’s thoughts again and again. I watched along with him, wincing every time as I tried to discern what the hell happened. I watched until Indigo pulled my mind away from it by closing off our mating link around me. It was a dirty pull, but he was probably tired of watching Reve die again and again. If Cobalt knew the lizard in the forest, so did my Indigo.
A bird came into view and let out a long-windedcaw-caw, caw-caw.It landed on the porch banister that wrapped around most of the cabin and a second later was a messy-haired elf perching there in a long t-shirt with a crow’s head printed on the front and shorts so short they were only visible because he had the shirt pulled up to reveal them.
“No shoes?” I asked and Odell opened his eyes to shoot me a dirty look.
Sure, I wasn’t a fan of shoes either but I wouldn’t go barefoot to a murder investigation.
“Mate,”Indigo said over our mating link.“I never did anything with Crilus. Sure, Cobalt and I have shared a lover here and there but he wasn’t one of them. Stop that.”
“That’s not---”I started but stopped. I wasn’t sure what annoyed me about the elf. Sure, he’d been with Cobalt and Teal, but it wasn’t like he was trying to collect all three of the triplets as notches in his bedpost like some trading card game.
“Anti-elf?” Crilus arched a brow.
“Anti getting your foot stuck in the blood,” I said.
