Seth turned his eyes on him too, a smirk lifting his lips. “Want me to keep making him jealous?”
“What do you mean keep making him jealous?” I asked in confusion then he barked a laugh and dropped the silencing bubble.
Orion bristled, taking a step between us and looking to me. “What were you talking about?” he demanded, a note of concern in his voice that made me frown.
I glanced at Seth behind him, finding him shaking his head fiercely and though I hated keeping this from Orion, it wasn’t my secret to tell.
“Seth needs to stay,” I said and Orion looked like I’d slapped him.
“Why?” he hissed, his fangs extending like he couldn’t hold back the monster in him any longer.
“He’s got some…issues with Caleb,” I said carefully.
“You could always swap rooms with me, bro?” Seth suggested lightly. “Why don’t you go stay with Cal? You could have some Vampy, bondy blood time or some shit. Me and Darcy will be fine here together. Alone. Just like we were all those months you were in prison.”
Orion snapped around with a pulse of his Vampire speed and I caught his hand a second before he attacked, sensing it as he wielded the air around him, making my hair gust forward over my shoulders.
Seth grinned tauntingly at Orion, apparently in the mood to grant himself a death wish.
“Shut it, Seth,” I hissed. “If you stay here, you can’t be an asshole.”
“But being an asshole is what I do,” he whimpered as I worked to try and get Orion’s narrowed eyes off of the Wolf goading him.
Orion finally turned his gaze on me and my heart fluttered at the sight of the wild animal I found looking back at me. He leaned down until he was nose to nose with me, my lungs ceasing to work as the scent of cinnamon wrapped around me and I was caged by his presence.
“I want you to myself, Blue,” he said in a deep voice that sent a tremor rolling down my spine. “He can find somewhere else to stay.”
“There aren’t enough rooms to go around,” Seth called. “And honestly, you might end up with a roommate anyway because smelly Wanda the Tiberian Rat is wandering around out there looking for someone to take her in. Hamish says she likes to make nesting material out of your underwear. At least with me, there’s no chance of that. I’ll just keep you guys entertained with tales of the moon. We can have movie nights and cuddle parties and-”
“No,” Orion snapped, turning to him once more. “You think I’m gonna share breathing space with the guy who’s been cosying up to my girl while I was gone?”
“Firstly, I wasn’t your girl while you were gone. Because you were gone, duh.” I prodded Orion in the side. “And secondly, if you suggest one more time that I hooked up with Seth, I’ll unleash Tory’s fist on your dick again.”
Orion grunted, looking to Seth with narrowed eyes then back to me. “I wanna hear it from him.”
I turned to Seth, gesturing for him to go right ahead while he spread himself out on the single bed and cupped his head in his hands.
“Well…that’s not a straightforward answer, Lancey. Am I the sort of guy to fuck ‘your girl’-” He air quoted the words “-given the chance? Of course I am.”
Orion lunged forward a step and I dove in front of him to stop him from killing Seth, though I was half tempted to do it myself after that comment.
“Have I had visions in the past of her pinned beneath me, screaming my name? Definitely.”
“Seth,” I snarled, about to gag him with some conjured dirt as Orion shot around me in a blur of speed, shooting toward him with intent. He collided with an air shield Seth had cast around himself and he immediately started throwing his fists at it with a furious power.
“Would we make a beautiful couple that the whole of Solaria would celebrate instead of shudder at? Abso-fucking-lutely.” Seth examined his nails as Orion fought to break his air shield.
“Seth!” I shouted, my anger rising. What the hell was he playing at?
“But did I fuck her in her bed, in every position I could think up including the Hungry Vampire, proving I could make her scream louder than you did? Well, that’s debatable.”
“There’s no debate. We didn’t have sex and we never would,” I growled.
Orion’s fist suddenly broke through the shield and he dove at Seth like a man possessed, his fangs exposed as he landed on top of him. He started punching him, his fists cracking against a tighter air shield around Seth who simply grinned widely.