“Hey,” I narrow my eyes, “that’s me you’re talking about. Do you know the kinky shit that I have had tosortfrom guests who leave it to housekeeping?”
Zero looks delighted. “Oh, do tell.”
I jump, startled, however, at the sudden crash from inside the suite.
“Stay here.” Piper sounds startlingly awake and dangerous all of a sudden.
He breaks away from me, swimming to the side of the pool.
Does he think that I will stay behind, when Icarus is in that room with a mafia heir?
Piper pulls himself out of the pool, running back into the suite without pausing to grab a towel.
“How could Lion have gone wrong with a simple drink?” Zero mutters. “I bet that your Alpha did a terrible crime like put his glass down without a coaster. Lion threatened to spank me for that yesterday.”
Zero attempts to keep me in his arms, but slippery in the water, I duck under his grip and swim toward the side of the oval pool.
“I’m a lover and not a fighter.” Zero powers after me. “How about we let them sort it out between themselves?”
“If anyone threatens to spank Icarus,” I throw over my shoulder, “they’ll be the one who can’t sit for a week.”
Zero pales. “Wait for me.”
Together, we drag ourselves out of the pool. I snatch a fluffy white towel from beside the pool and hurl it at Zero.
Zero and I drag the towels around ourselves, as we rush back inside after Piper.
Then I stop in shock.
Icarus isn’t the one who is in trouble.
Lionzio is.
Icarus is holding Lionzio pinned on his front over the piano. Lionzio’s jacket is ripped. Icarus is holding the other Alpha down with his arm twisted behind his back.
It makes me realize how much larger he is than Lionzio and how much deadlier, despite his fractured ribs.
Brandy is seeping into the carpet from a smashed glass, which must have been knocked off the top of the piano.
That must have been the crash.
I feel sick, seeing the two Alphas like this.
Suddenly, I realize that Icarus’ encouragement for the rest of us to go out to the pool, his seduction of Lionzio, and offer of a drink, was a trick.
Icarus would never threaten an Omega, even one like Ellington, or a Beta.
He doesn’t feel the same way about Alphas.
Did he always intend to get Lionzio alone to interrogate him? While I was growing closer to the other members of the Idols pack, Icarus was kicking their Alpha’s ass in here.
I clench my hands. My eyes burn with tears.
Will the others think that I knew Icarus meant to do this?
“What are you doing?” I hiss. “Let him go before you break his arm.”
My agonized gaze meets Icarus’ cold one.
