He laughed and took off his sunglasses.
His eyes were ghostly white and completely washed out.
It could happen to people sometimes who dabbled in the wrong kind of magic.
Simon believed it had something to do with losing your soul.
The whole thing creeped me the fuck out.
How could you live without a soul? I needed what part of mine that belonged solely to me.
“That’s the last time that you threaten me,” he said to Ariel in a pleasant voice that reminded me of a serial killer.
Fucking awesome.
“And that’s the last time you threaten her,” Simon responded in an equally pleasant voice.
Even better.
Apparently we were all going to act like crazy fucking assholes here.
Good to know.
“Can we skip this part and get to why we’re really here?” Ariel drawled in a bored voice that made me proud of her.
It was good to see that she could play along for once.
The man put his sunglasses back on and went right back to feeding the ducks.
“Come and sit down by me, Ariel Kimber. Tell me about your life and feed a few ducks.”
I knew better than to tell her not to do it. She wouldn’t listen to me. She might actually do it just to spite me.
My brother wasn’t as smart as me.
“You’re not going over there.”
I rolled my eyes. Simon would never learn.
Ariel pushed her way between us and sat down on the bench beside the creep.
Simon swore viciously underneath his breath. I almost laughed again.
Ariel took a piece of bread from the man and began ripping it into little shreds and tossing them into the water.
“I’m not going to waste my time telling you about my life because it’s obvious to me that you already know a great deal about me. More than I clearly know about you.”
I didn’t much see the point in this conversation Ariel was hell bent on having. You couldn’t believe anything out of the mans mouth and she ought to just wait for Rain to take care of him.
This rebellious streak in her where she felt the need to do everything on her own was enough to drive me crazy.
She was lucky she was smart and incredibly powerful or she wouldn’t be able to get away with half the stuff that she did.
“Tell me, how did you get in with the Council when no female has ever been able to pull that off before? Did you use your pussy and sleep with all of them? You had to, it was the only thing that would have worked with them. They didn’t care about much else. What an absolute waste.”
I stared at him in shock, wondering if he really just tried to compare her to a whore or if maybe I’d heard him wrong.
“The fuck?” Simon growled.
