“I’m not going anywhere,” Bay promised.
“We aren’t far,” Rin said. “We can be there in ten minutes, maybe seven. Describe what’s wrong.”
Bay told him about the veins. “He’s also burning up.”
“He cut himself? How?”
“No, he…”
“Oh. You meanhe cut himself.” Rin growled. “Dick. Always causing problems.”
“And on our honeymoon, too,” a new voice said close to Rin as a car engine roared to life.
Bay was pretty sure that was Kelevra Diar’s voice.
“This isn’t our honeymoon,” Rin snapped. “We only just agreed to be together. That’s not how honeymoons work.”
“Is now really the time to argue over this, Flower?”
“You know what—”
“Are you almost here?” Bay didn’t want to leave him, but he forced himself to climb back off the bed and go to the other doorway. There was a hallway that led down to a room lit by moonlight and he walked toward the pale glow, coming out into a living room. It was an open floor plan with the living area in the center and the kitchen off to the left. Next to that area, there was another door.
Bay checked it, sighing in relief when he found it was the exit. “I’m unlocking the front door so when you get here just let—”
Sila slammed into him from behind, hard enough Bay’s chin whacked against the door. The multi-slate he’d been holding clattered to ground, the screen cracking. It emitted a couple of beeps before it went silent, but Sila didn’t seem to notice, all of his wild attention aimed directly at Bay as he spun him around.
He was still sweating profusely and was wobbly on his feet, but he managed to hold Bay by the neck with ease, using his superior strength to keep him pinned to the hard wood.
“Sila.” Bay tried to coax his hand away, but all that did was irritate him further.
He squeezed and Bay’s eyes bulged. “Trying to run, Kitten?”
Bay tried to shake his head but Sila’s grip was too tight. He slapped at him instead, hoping to get him to let off enough he could get a word out, but Sila merely stared at him with empty eyes.
He was definitely unwell. Sila kept losing focus on Bay’s face and trying again.
When he couldn’t think of any other way out of this, Bay blindly reached down, grabbing onto Sila’s limp cock. He pulled, not hard enough to injure but definitely hard enough it would be felt.
Sila snarled and yanked himself free, letting Bay go in the process. Unfortunately, that also made him loose his balance, and he stumbled and fell back, hitting the floor in heap.
Bay moved off the door, about to go help him, when suddenly it was opened and slamming into his back. He cried out as he was pushed, tripping over his own feet in the process. When he fell, he landed over Sila, both of them groaning.
“Um, what the fuck?” Rin’s voice came then and Bay lifted his head and glanced over his shoulder to find him and the Imperial Prince crowding up the doorway.
And that’s when it finally occurred to him that both he and Sila were still completely in the nude.
And that he was sprawled out on top of him, with Sila’s legs bent at either side of his waist as though they’d been—
“Good Light!” He scrambled up, yelping when Sila immediately latched onto his wrist and pulled him back down. He landed on his elbow this time and cried out, slapping at Sila in a poor attempt to get him to release him so he could cover up.
“Brother,” Rin drawled, just that. One single, irritated word, and Sila went still.
“You’re here.” Sila’s expression was still blank when he glanced over at Rin. The second their eyes met, his rolled back into his skull and he passed out all over again.
Bay untangled himself from Sila’s arms and knelt at his side, tapping at his cheek. “Sila? Sila, wake up!”
“Get him to the car,” Kelevra told Rin, moving around him to step into the home. He pulled something shiny from his back pocket and Bay gasped when he registered it was a blaster. “I’ll take care of this.”
