Everyone’s on edge. I can’t wait until we’re all alone together—no threats or problems. Just us.
“So what’s the plan?” Mav questions. His magical hands start rubbing my arms and shoulders making my eyes roll back into my head.
I hear Luc chuckling, reminding me to keep playing with his hair. It’s soft and smooth, my fingers gliding through his locks with ease.
“We need to go back and get our stuff,” Alec announces. My eyes flick open.
“We need our clothes, the cars, the coffee machine.” Jace carries on listing things. I love how high he put the coffee machine on that list. It is a good coffee machine.
“Where’s my knife?” I ask as my heart seizes. Did it get left the car?
Dom leans down, taking his hand with him and produces my knife and sheath from the bag of clothes Helen dropped off for us.
I breathe a heavy sigh of relief.
“Where’d the sheath come from?” Jace questions, putting his sock covered feet up on the bed.
I swear, he always has cold feet. I remember him wearing socks around Helen and Devon’s house in summer. It’s funny to see that hasn’t changed.
“I wasn’t sure if you wanted to tell everyone yourself or not,” Mase tells me.
He shuffles up from where he was laying at the end of the bed to crawl between my legs. His face gets planted on my stomach right beside Luc’s on my leg.
“Thanks, Mase.” I run my fingers through his hair.It’s getting long,I think absentmindedly. I think he and Luc like it that way just so I have more hair to play with. The back tickles the nape of his neck.
“Uh, so…we went to go see Drake’s sister.”
Everyone’s silent after the bomb I just dropped on them.
Luc lazily opens one eye to tell me, “Butterfly, Drake King doesn’t have a sister.”
“Yeah, he does.” I sigh. “It’s not a known fact, so you can’t repeat this to anyone. I’m sure you all know the Dark Rider’s rule that the next in line has to be a man.” I assume they do anyway.
“Yeah.” Dom says to me. The guys nod.
“So, when Lindsey—Giovanni King’s baby—turned out to be a girl, I’m sure you can imagine the uproar in the Dark Riders. Giovanni let Drake’s mum have the baby and Lindsey was raised at the Dark Rider’s compound until Drake was born. Only a handful of people know that Lindsey was Giovanni’s legitimate child,” I explain, “after Drake was born, he became the centre of Giovanni’s world. He was obsessed with making Drake a carbon copy of himself. Lindsey spent most of her childhood life at the compound, hidden away from the rest of the Dark Riders until she was at an age to serve a purpose, in Giovanni’s eyes. Lindsey’s mum disappeared not long after Lindsey turned thirteen. She was just a sperm donor to Giovanni but Lindsey was devastated.”
I pay extra attention to Luc as I’m telling this story. He’s staring up at the ceiling as I continue to run my fingers through his soft hair.
“How’d she end up withThe Black Roses?”Alec asks.
“TheBlack Roses?” Jace’s eyes widen.
I smile. “Xander, who you might know as The Ghost, was paying a Dark Rider a visit years back and ran into Lindsey. She had no idea who he was.” I chuckle as the shocked faces around me. “Xan was totally expecting Lindsey to run screaming but instead, asked him to take her with him.”
“Xan was with Rowan, Ethan and Fallon at this point. Lindsey cut ties with her father when Xan gave him the officialwarning of what would happen if they were to come after her. Giovanni has interfered with missions but never came for Lindsey.”
“I cannot believe you’re calling The Ghost,Xan.”Jace looks at me like I’ve lost my mind.
Luc chuckles. “I can.”
I smile, seeing the humour that replaces the darkness in his eyes.
“How’d you meet them?” Dom interrupts, still looking lost.
“Lindsey’s the librarian at Cattle Creek,” Alec tells him.
Dom’s eyes are blown wide. “Daaaamn. How the hell did we not know that?”
