“He’s right,” Max agreed. “Think about it. Lionel will have threatened them and as it stands, with him having the shadows on his side and that shadow witch at his command, he is more powerful than our parents. If they didn’t fall into line, then he could kill them.”
“Then maybe they should run too?” Seth suggested. “They could all come here, join us and-”
“We need to find a way to contact them,” I said decisively. “And we need Darius’s opinion on this too. Where is he?”
“Fucking Tory Vega of course,” Max said with a derisive snort. “I know you’re not a Siren, but surely that amount of lust is enough for the rest of you to sense too?”
I breathed a laugh, shaking my head at him and getting to my feet.
“They can’t just fuck all the damn time,” I pointed out. “They’re probably sleeping or some shit. Besides, they have to eat.”
“We’ll see.” Max led the way to the door but as I went to follow him, I looked back and found Seth still sitting on my bed looking utterly dejected as he stared at the floor.
“Hey,” I barked at him, shooting forward and gripping his hair in my fist, jerking on it to make him look up at me. “No pouting. We can figure this out.”
Seth’s eyes widened and he nodded slowly, his tongue wetting his lips and drawing my attention for a moment.
“Alright,” he agreed, a smirk lifting the corner of his mouth. “But you didn’t have to go all Dom on me.”
“Oh please, you’d love it if I went all Dom on you,” I tossed back, tugging on his hair a little harder and liking the way it felt to have him beneath me like that.
“Maybe I would,” he replied and as my gaze met his, the joking lilt to our conversation slipped and I found my pulse picking up with that crazy idea.
I shifted a little closer to him, my gaze roaming over his face as he looked at me with something akin to vulnerability in his expression, like he was trying to tell me something without voicing it and I found myself really wanting to know what that was.
“Are you fuckers coming or what?” Max barked from outside and I released Seth’s hair, barking a laugh as I stepped back and jerked my chin at him in a command for him to follow.
“I’ll have to pencil in topping you for another time,” I teased and Seth laughed a little manically.
“Yeah. Just tell me where and when and I’ll make sure to bring the ball gag and the handcuffs.”
I chuckled at the ridiculousness of that idea and Seth moved past me as we made it into the corridor, shoulder checking me hard enough to knock me into the damn wall.
“Asshole,” I called after him and he flipped me off over his shoulder before jogging to catch Max and leaving me behind.
I followed them through the so called royal quarters and down the corridors dedicated to housing us, the roughly hewn tunnels made up of nothing more than the rock they’d been carved into with a series of everflames burning at intervals to light the way.
Max pulled up short by the door to Tory and Darius’s room and knocked loudly as me and Seth moved to stand beside him.
There was a long pause, but no one responded from within the room and as I strained my ears, I couldn’t hear a sound from inside it either.
“Are you sure they’re here? Because if they are they’re using a silencing bubble,” I said and Max groaned.
“To drown out all the fucking sex noise,” he said, giving us an ‘I told you so’ look.
“Well at least one of us is getting laid,” Seth grumbled and I arched a brow at him in surprise.
“I thought you were too? You told me you weren’t sharing a room with me because you were spending your nights getting your cock serviced by a secret lover.”
Max snorted. “Yeah - probably his fucking hand, just like I am these days. You know Gerry still won’t give me the time of day even after I became a star damned rebel?”
“Seth?” I pushed, frowning at him as he cut his gaze away from mine and moved towards the door to Darius’s room, pressing his hand to it like he intended to bust the lock.
“A gentleman never tells,” he replied, not looking at me as he focused on the door and I shot Max a confused look while he just shrugged, clearly more interested in his Geraldine drama than he was in Seth’s night time antics.
I pursed my lips and dropped the questions. It wasn’t like I gave a fuck who he was screwing anyway.
“Got it!” Seth announced and the door swung open a moment later, revealing Darius and Tory lying in bed together, but instead of finding them fucking like animals as we’d all been expecting, we found them holding each other.