At the time, I’d been hoping to use the information to force Dominick out of the city, but since that was no longer a possibility, maybe we could learn something that would help protect us.
Honestly, I was surprised Natalia had delivered them so fast. I’d been sure she’d want to do her own interrogation on them first.
“The flock leader also said she wanted to be kept in the loop if we found anything interesting,” Nathan added.
“Shall we, then?” Thomas asked me, offering his arm.
I blinked in confusion.
“If you don’t think you’re up to it, you can sit this one out,” Thomas said when I didn’t move. “I know how much you love humans. I wouldn’t want to offend your sensibilities.”
Nathan didn’t bother to hide his smirk. “He’s got you there, A.”
I shot Nathan a quelling look. “They shot Liam and tried to take us captive. Any squeamishness I might have had went out the window after that.”
They were going to regret hurting him. Human or not.
Buzzcut, Gray Hair and Braces hung in a row, their faces swollen and streaked with blood. It was hard to tell if their bruises came courtesy of the harpies’ care or if they were a product of their encounter with the sentinel. Likely both.
They’d been strung up until their toes barely brushed the floor, their whole weight supported by their shoulders and wrists. From that position, it would feel like their muscles were threatening to rip and their joints to dislocate.
Buzzcut’s wrist looked slightly mushy, the swollen, purple mess making me think it was broken.
He and Gray Hair’s expressions were impassive as they squinted against the bright lights Thomas’s people had aimed at their faces. Braces nearly hyperventilated in fear, his breathing fast and rapid.
At our entrance, Anton pushed away from the wall he’d been leaning against.
Thomas nodded at him to begin.
Anton acknowledged the order with an incline of his chin before prowling toward the prisoners. He circled them, making sure they could hear his passage even if they couldn’t see him.
It was an intimidation tactic, since I knew very well that he could move undetected should he wish.
It worked, too. Braces flinched with every footfall, quailing as much as he could with his arms locked over his head.
“I hear you guys like to hunt my kind,” Anton purred, still keeping out of sight behind the lights. “Must make you feel like big men, huh?”
Anton shoved Braces.
Whimpers filled the room. Braces’ toes scrabbled for purchase on the ground as Anton’s push set him to swaying.
“I asked you a question,” Anton crooned.
“No.”
“Really?”
“Okay, yes.”
Anton’s chuckles made me hunch over. Why did he have to be so damn creepy every time he did this?
“Let’s start with an easy question, shall we? Tell me your names.”
Buzzcut and Gray Hair stared forward with stony faces.
Anton’s sigh slithered through the room. “I figured you wouldn’t make this easy on me.”
“As if he would want that,” Nathan muttered in a low voice only the vampires would hear.
