“The more people that know, the greater risk that Costin will find out. If he tries to get to her while her mind is still so heavily affected by the magic, he could kill her,”she pointed out.
Peri could feel Lucian’s frustration at the situation. He didn’t like the idea of two powerful Alphas angry with his mate.
“Go to the meeting and feel them out. Perhaps, you should gauge their ability to handle the information before you decide what to reveal.”
“I will likely find that their ability to act rationally about their lost friend and healer is about as likely as your ability to do a striptease while wearing a tutu. Then what should I do?”She felt his amusement at her which brought a much-needed smile to her face.
“You might find that I’m perfectly capable of doing a striptease while wearing a tutu. But just because I’m capable doesn’t mean I’ll do it. You might find the same situation there. If they are not in a state to be helpful, then I suppose you should sit on the info for a few days. Decide if you should tell Vasile or Decebel in private. Vasile, certainly, can keep a level head.”
“Fine,”She huffed at him.“We’ll do it your way but in exchange I expect that striptease. You better get to finding a tutu, Wolf.”
“As my lady commands,”he responded in that slow, sexy, voice that he knew made her want to kick saving the world to the curb and go home to him.
“Play fair,”she growled at him.
“Then I’d never win.”
She laughed out loud as she felt him pull back from her mind. He was wrong. Her mate was cunning and patient. All he had to do was wait for her to make a mistake in whatever little game they were playing and then he’d make his move. He only cheated because it amused her and he liked pleasing her.
“So have we got a plan now?” Stralina asked her.
“Was it that obvious that I was having a conversation in my mind with my mate?” Peri asked the pixie.
Stralina lifted one shoulder. “Well, your face sort of moves around. Like your eyebrows raise, or your mouth tilts up or down. Your forehead creases and occasionally you huff or roll your eyes. So it’s like you are responding with your face to something no one else can hear.”
Peri stared down at the little female for a few seconds before shaking her head. “You could have just said yes. I didn’t need the play by play.”
“Since you talked to your mate, do we have a plan?” she asked Peri again.
Peri held her hand out and tilted it from side to side. “Meh, we have a loosely thought out next step.”
“So, a plan,” Stralina added.
“A plan implies that you have looked at all of the other available options and decided the best possible action based upon likely results. We have not looked at all of the other available actions and we have no idea of the likely results,” Peri countered.
“What’s another option?”
“Going home and making wild monkey love with my mate.”
“And another?” Stralina asked again, un-phased by Peri’s response.
“Repeating the aforementioned option,” she answered without pause.
This time the pixie laughed. “Right, so we aren’t going to look at any other available options. I think we’re good where we are.”
Peri nodded. “I sort of thought that would be how you felt.” She placed her hand on the pixie’s shoulder once again and flashed them to Vasile’s office.
The normally calm, organized room was a big, loud chaotic mess, and Peri briefly wondered if she’d somehow flashed them to the wrong house. But then she heard Jen’s voice.
“Us standing around like a bunch of yapping hyenas isn’t helping us find him,” she growled at her mate. Decebel snarled back so viciously that Peri took a step toward the couple as though she needed to protect Jen from her mate. Which was ludicrous because Decebel, nor any mated male, would never intentionally harm their mate. They’d sooner rip off their own man parts.
“I know what I need to do in order to find my Beta, female,” Decebel said to Jen with amber eyes lit up like Christmas lights. “I do not need you pointing out the obvious to me.”
Okay, Peri had never seen Decebel like that, not with Jen. And by the look on her face, Jen hadn’t either. She’d had enough of the chaos. Where the crap was Vasile?
“ENOUGH!”
“Oh, there he is,” Peri whispered to herself as Vasile strode into the room, his power radiated off of him and reached out across the silenced room.
