Page 35 of The Dragon's Stone Hearted Mate
“Look man, we’re not in charge, okay?” The pissy fox said. “We’re just doing our jobs. If we don’t collect the money on the bets, the boss doesn’t get his money and then no one’s happy.”
“So, you’re telling me you’re disposable?” Crilus arched a brow. “That I could kill you where you stand and no one would give a flying fuck? Why would you work for a guy like that?”
“Why not? We’re all fucking disposable at the end of the day, eh?” The fox said, his eyes filled with self-sabotaging doom.
“Shut the fuck up, Tony!” Georgie roared. “You – whichever one you are,” he said to Indigo. “Give me my mate. You’ve made your point. Give me my fucking mate and we’ll all be on our way. Keep Tony if you need to but give me my mate and we’ll get out of your hair.”
“Not a chance in hell. You’re going in the freezer,” Teal laughed and the spark of mischief in his eye told me that the awkwardness of our reunion had nothing to do with our broken friendship and everything to do with the fact Teal lied to me about how much he knew. Had we been followed from the moment I stepped foot back in Moonscale London?
“No, I’m not!” the alpha bear shook his head. “You never let someone move you to a second location! I know what that means!” The bear’s claws came out and I frowned.
“Georgie,” I said his name. “Fucking Georgie. I thought you were bedding down with Torvan. I walked in on your mouth all filled up with my brother’s dick on more than one occasion. Is that how you treat your lovers? You suck them and then fuckthem over so badly they end up dead? Who’s the new guy? Is he new or were you running around on him too?”
“You can kill me if you want but it doesn’t change anything,” the omega bear with Indigo’s claw tips in his belly spoke up. “I found my mate. I’ll do whatever it takes to stop him from being killed. If some of you have to die for that to happen then it sucks to be you!”
His words were braver than his scent. Crilus glanced at me. His eyes said it all. If that bear died it would be at his hands. Too many questions would be asked if Indigo or one of us other alphas killed him. If he was going to go the way of the dodo it had to be at the hands of another omega.
“What’s going on?” Mori walked into the kitchen.
Georgie dove for the gun but Crilus pounced on his back, knocking him to the floor.
“Not today, bear-butt! I’ve spent too many years wrestling bears for the remote to let you pull a fast one on me!” Crilus said, pulling his arms behind his back until he could no longer look down. “Stop struggling or I’ll rip them out of their sockets! Once you do something on accident, it’s really easy to do them on purpose. Now, if your mate isn’t all that involved now is the time to speak up and save his life.”
“Can we even take that chance?” I asked, remembering how I tried to save Torvan.
“We can,” Mori nodded. “We can always take a chance on life. I just didn’t know that bears were loan sharks in Moonscale London. You know you can just hop through a gateway and get free food, right? If you’re a bear my carrier will feed you so much that you topple over into a food coma. Hell, if you’re a wolf or just a hungry mouth.”
“Mori, now isn’t the time to get homesick,” Crilus said.
“Who said I was homesick? I was pointing out the obvious because this isn’t going to end well but I need it to end beforePreston arrives. If he walks in on this, he’s gonna lose his shit on these guys. He’s going to call our parents and then…” Mori let his words trail off and said a second later, “I really don’t want my parents involved in this.”
“Georgie?” Torvan yelled through the door.
“Torvan, we could use your help, baby,” Georgie called back, and the omega bear let out a low warning growl.
“I’ll let you eat his face if you want,” Indigo whispered in the omega bear’s ear. “I really will. If you’re not already in his shit, you’ll spend the rest of your short miserable life swimming in it.
“Don’t talk to my mate that way!” Georgie roared and Crilus slammed his head onto the tiles.
“Don’t talk to my friends that way. This is all your fault. You took the bet, didn’t you? You took the bet after you were told not to. This isn’t the first time I’ve beaten your head into the floor, is it? I didn’t know your name back then but I told you not to take anymore bets from that damn dragon! After you came collecting at the Raven’s Perch. Do you remember me now or are you too drunk?” Crilus hissed.
My head swam in circles.
“Wait! You knew about Torvan’s gambling addiction?” I asked Crilus, tightening my grip on the gun I had yet to disassemble.
“Yeah, but now really isn’t the time to talk about this. Long story short, I thought I was in love with Teal. Teal cares about you and you cared about Torvan. I thought I put an end to this bullshit and then Teal calls me up and tells me everything he found out. I’m so sick of bears thinking they can do whatever they want.”
“Not all of them do,” Mori blinked.
“I know that. I’m just fighting with one of my half-sisters right now and she’s such a pain in the ass. Though, if she were here right now, Georgie would’ve already been headless, I bet,”Crilus said. “I didn’t know about the hit. I didn’t know Patrica was going to kill Torvan either. I don’t know everything. I know enough to know if Georgie is after him for money, it’s because he has his own debts and it’s not the sort that comes from gambling. It’s the sort that goes straight up his nose.”
“This is a mess,” Mori scrunched up his nose.
I really wished Rho was here or if not him, Cutter. The lion would ask all the right questions and get to the bottom of what in the name of Frost’s fiery balls was going on here.
“Morvan?! What’s going on out there?” Torvan called from the freezer, and I glanced at Mori. What the hell had gone on inside there?
“Mori?” Crilus said.
