Page 55 of Knightfall
Can you hear me from across the country?
With that bead, yes. How do you think I built my spy network to be so efficient?
I shoved down how impressed I was by that.Leave me alone. I need to focus.
Quinn sent me an image of a duck trying to mount another duck and continually falling off.
I burst out laughing. "Stop it."
"I'm not doing anything,” Declan stared at me and shook his head.
"Not you. Quinn is in my head. Sending duck sex thoughts."
"Oh. Yeah, he can be a shite."
"Do you have a bead, too?"
"Yep. We all do. Just in case he’s out and needs a contact back here.”
Ryan ran back toward us. This time he didn't have a shirt.
I openly stared at his pecs, ogled his six pack, and let my eyes gaze at his happy trail.
"Did you lose your shirt between your captain and here?" Declan rolled his eyes.
"Nope. Quinn said Bloss was feeling naughty."
"Argh. Quinn, I'm killing you." I covered my face with my hands.
The mental image of Quinn running around me, waving a shirt and whooping like a wild man, appeared.
"What's he sending you?" Ryan leaned close and trailed my hand down his chest.
Oh Lord. I was about to combust from mental dissonance—the ridiculous mental pictures and the roaring lust. "What the sard am I supposed to do when you all gang up on me?”
“Just a little payback, Dearling,” Ryan whispered, dragging my fingers up to his lips and kissing them one by one. He sucked my pinkie into his mouth just as Quinn sent me an image of a firework exploding.
I nearly exploded myself. I turned to Declan and grabbed his vest by the lapels. “Save me, please.”
His eyes popped, and he reached up to pull my arms off of him. “Even if I wanted to help you, which—to be clear—I don’t, what am I supposed to do?”
“Dump water on him, like you did the other day—”
“That will just make his abs glisten in the sunlight,” Declan couldn’t help the shite-eating grin that popped up on his face.
“Mercy!” I cried. “Give me mercy.”
Declan took my arm out of pity and I led him out of the practice yard, glad to escape.
“Where are we going?” he asked.
“The stables,” I replied. “We’re going out for the day.”
He nodded, and we walked in silence for a bit. Then Declan surprised me by saying, “Quinn sent us all an update on what happened last night.”
My body heated up, like I was on a spit, over a fire. No.
“Yes, tonight, when it’s my watch, I can’t wait to see what you’ll dream about,” Ryan murmured.
