Page 46 of Our Haunted Omegas
Crilus rubbed his long-toed feet together like he might turn into a cricket rather than a bird or a wolf.
“Foot fetish,” Crilus nodded. “Yep.”
“Why do I feel like I’m missing something over here?” Cobalt asked, tightening his grip on Odie.
“I am too, brother,” Indigo sighed.
I opened my mouth and shut it again. Crilus was pretty but I wasn’t jealous of him. Not for the reasons a normal wolf might be. I envied the fact he knew Indigo and Cobalt before we did. I envied the time they had together that should’ve been ours.
“True-mate magic,” Indigo sighed a moment later. “Don’t mind him, please, Crilus. He’ll calm down soon, I think.”
I scrunched up my face and almost told Crilus he should mind me very much because my great grandfather had bird hunting trophies before London exploded. Only, I didn’t actually want to see their friend dead. One dead man was more than enough for any night. It was one too many, in fact.
“He’s on edge,” Crilus said, rubbing his cricket feet together again. “It’s nothing to do with me. His wolf would like to eat me because at least then he’s doing something. He does think I’m showing too much skin but…” Crilus let out a long, drawn-out sigh and met my gaze. “Yeah. He thinks I’m too much of a pretty boy to solve a murder.”
“What? Are you a mind reader too now?” I huffed and Indigo squeezed my big toe.
“No, but I can read auras sometimes. Energy. Whatever it is. I read the vibes, dude,” he laughed. “Anyway. Who wants to show me the blood bath?”
Everyone looked at Cobalt and Odie. I swallowed hard, wishing I knew exactly where Reve was. I’d take Crilus out there without having to drag him through that again.
“No splitting up,” Indigo tapped the soles of my feet when Cobalt and Odie made their way down the steps. I yawned,hating to give up my comfy spot but Indigo was right. This wasn’t the time to split up. If we let Odie and Cobalt out of our sight we might never see them again. Cobalt led the way, holding onto Odie’s hand. Odie held onto me and I grabbed Indigo’s hand as he brought up the rear.
“Seems you found two omegas who fit right into your strange co-dependent cult,” Crilus laughed.
A growl escaped my throat and the elf laughed.
“Don’t mind him,” Cobalt said. “He’s just mad because he missed his chance to ---”
He stopped short of finishing that sentence when Odie squeezed his hand.
“He did miss his chance,” Odie said but his eyes were straight ahead, focused on getting back to the scene of the crime.
We walked in silence the rest of the way there. First came the basket and the little mountains of clothes that Odie and Cobalt had left behind when they fled the woods via the sky. Then through the trees and foliage was the body. Teal had covered Reve up from the neck down with a tarp. He and three other men stood in a circle around the body. Two of the men faced the body and Teal and another faced outward as if they were trying to see in every direction.
“Hey, Teal,” Crilus grinned and I rolled my eyes.
“He’s not Teal’s mate. He should leave him alone. He’s not—”my wolf started but I ignored him.
I didn’t care if he humped Teal right here in these woods as long as he solved the murder first. Teal wasn’t mine or Odie’s. Sure, something was off about the elf and I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life around him but if Teal was anything like his brothers, he’d stop messing around once he found his true-mate.
“Hey, Cri,” Teal managed a tired grin. He smelled genuinely happy to see us all and I almost hugged him before I realized it was Indigo’s instinct and not mine. What? Was he not allowedto hug his brother in front of his friends? They didn’t seem all that big and bad. They might be dragons but that didn’t mean anything. Hell, I saw so many dragons blown--- I shook my head to stop the memory. This wasn’t the time nor the place for those memories to come bumrushing into my brain.
“I hate to say it but I’m going to have to see the body,” Crilus frowned.
I rolled my eyes. That much was obvious. To solve a murder, you had to look at the damn body. Indigo squeezed my hand and pulled me into a hug.
“I can hug him. I just figure everyone should focus on Reve. He was a good guy. I mean, obviously, he didn’t respect anyone’s privacy but outside of that he was decent, I think,” Indigo said.
“I’m sorry about your friend—”
“He wasn’t my friend exactly but no one deserves to die like that. Well, no one deserves to die like that for taking photos. Not without a trial and all that anyway. Hell, I don’t know.”
Cobalt glanced away because unlike his brother he would’ve killed him for taking those photos.
“Too bad someone stomped on the camera,” Teal said, shooting daggers at Cobalt with his eyes.
“I did---” Odie started but Teal shook his head.
