Page 105 of Marked By the Pack
I laughed. “You can’t just say no. This isn’t up for negotiation.”
“Everything’s up for negotiation, baby.” He pulled me into his arms.
“Not this.” I booped the tip of his nose.
And he looked absolutely astonished by the action.
I started laughing.
“What did you just do to me?” He let go of my waist and rubbed his nose.
I couldn’t handle his look of bewilderment. It just made me laugh harder.
“Stop laughing,” he said. But he was smiling now too.
“I booped your nose. Because you were being terrible.”
“I think a spanking would be rather more appropriate.”
I shook my head. “That feels more like a reward.”
He raised his left eyebrow at me.
I laughed and grabbed the key from his hand. “Now please show me your secret room full of magical things before I have to boop you again.”
“Magical? There’s nothing really that useful. At least…not that I’ve been able to deduce.”
So that meant that it waspossiblethat the Anubis coin could be in there. And that Callum just didn’t know how to use it. I needed in this room. I walked out of Callum’s office, down the hall, and up the stairs.
His footsteps followed behind me.
I put the key into the first door I found, but the lock didn’t turn.
“It’s that one,” he said and pointed to one of the other doors in the hall.
“What’s in this one again?”
“Some stuff from my past.”
Well, now I was interested in that too. “Like what?”
“Old paintings and things. Stuff I’d like to go through with you to see what we can salvage for our new house. Here, let me go get the key to that room.” He stepped around me to go back downstairs.
I needed to focus. We’d have time to decorate after I cured him. I grabbed his arm before he could descend the stairs. “Actually, can we look at the relics first? I’m so curious.”
He nodded and gestured back to the door he’d pointed out.
This time the door unlocked with a satisfying click. I flipped the light switch and just stood there staring. It was the most beautiful walk-in closet I’d ever seen. But instead of shoes in the glass encased shelves, there was an assortment of everything from vases to folded cloth. And the middle of the room had an island with a glass top. I stepped forward and stared down into the contents of the drawers beneath the glass.
Most of it was jewelry. Beautiful jewelry, that normally I would have been a little distracted by, but I was a woman on a mission.
“See anything you like?” Callum asked.
“No.”
“No?” He laughed. “Nothing at all?”
I smiled at him. “It’s all lovely. But I’m looking for something more…ancient.”
