“Oh, silly boy,” I said, tiptoeing up to speak in his ear. “You wouldn’t like me if I was a good girl.”
Darius growled, making a move to grab me but finding his arms bound to his sides by the vines I’d cast while he was distracted by my closeness, and I smirked at him as I sidestepped and headed after the others who were waiting to exit through the barrier.
I looked over at my sister, finding Orion circling her like a wolf as he examined her armour with a heated look in his eyes. She bit her lip as he came back around to stand before her and I snapped my fingers to gain their attention before he could pounce on her.
“Promise me you’ll make sure your sister behaves, Blue,” Orion muttered to Darcy as I closed in on them. “Just do what Darius says and stay safe while we’re out there.”
“Don’t worry,” Darcy agreed easily, glancing at me and twinunicating the fact that neither of us would be blindly taking orders from my boyfriend tonight. “I won’t let Tory out of my sight,” she promised and Orion nodded in relief, taking her hand and squeezing her fingers as we stepped through the barrier and into the dark field beyond it.
“As soon as we get there, we move,” Orion said, looking between our group as we gathered close to each other, and we all nodded our agreement.
“Let us raise our batons to the stars and fight in the name of justice for the prosperity of our great kingdom and the true queens who are destined to rule over it!” Geraldine cried as she took the stardust from a pouch she had stashed in her cleavage.
“I don’t think we all agreed to fight for-” Seth began but Geraldine threw the stardust in his face to stop his protests and we were whipped away into the grip of the heavens as the sound of my laughter spilled out around us.
We landed somewhere deep in a forest where huge evergreen trees towered over our heads and rain rushed down to soak us the moment we landed. My feet sank a good inch into the mud and the cold of the place met with the sound of falling rain as it lashed against me.
“Nice,” I muttered, glancing up at the clouds which I could barely see above the thick canopy of trees just as thunder crashed overhead.
“It should give us some good cover at least,” Max said, shifting just as I looked his way so that his navy scales crept over his skin and a shiver of pleasure danced along his flesh from the kiss of the rain.
“Of course the Siren is loving the weather,” Caleb scoffed and a smile touched my lips as we all took off into the trees.
“It’s this way,” Darius said, jerking his chin. “I can practically taste their foul scent on the wind.”
He strode to the front of the group, walking with such purpose that I had to assume he really did know what he was talking about. I moved forward to walk beside him, sniffing the air and smelling nothing but rain and moss.
“Did you just shift your nose or something, dude?” I asked him and he shot me a look which confirmed he’d tapped into his Dragon gifts.
“Don’t call me dude,” he growled and dammit if I didn’t like it when he growled.
“Why not?”
“Because I’m not your fucking dude. I’m the guy who makes you come so hard you can hardly breathe, let alone see straight. I’m the one who makes your heart race every damn time you look at me because you know I’ll never stop hungering for you the way I do, and I’ll never get enough of you or be able to love you with any more passion than I possess right now. And I’m the guy who you’ll have to answer to if you do anything against my orders tonight - which believe me will hurt at least as much as you’ll enjoy it. Got it?”
“Got it. Not my fucking dude,” I teased and he growled again.
Yeah, he’d pretty much just given me every excuse I needed to misbehave even if I hadn’t been fully planning on it just for the fact that I wasn’t his to control anyway.
I felt a silencing bubble slip over my skin and looked around to find Orion and Caleb both staring out into the trees to our right where the ground sloped upwards.
“I think there’s two of them coming this way - probably a patrol or something,” Orion said and all of us tensed.
“Three actually,” Caleb disagreed and after another brief pause, Orion nodded.
“Sounds like the perfect number to use for our bait,” Seth said excitedly.
“Then I think it’s time we got to work,” Geraldine said darkly and I found myself smiling as the need for a fight surged through my veins.
It had been too damn long since we’d struck a real blow in this war, and I was ready to get back to the fight.