He was quiet for a moment. “I wanted to see how far you would let it go.”
Heat blasted my cheeks. “Not very far.”
The Prince lifted a brow. “My hand was right above your—”
“I know where your hand was,” I snapped, cutting him off as that heat in my face hit my veins. “Trust me. It’s something I won’t forget.”
“No doubt,” he murmured, his lips curling into a faint smile.
My eyes narrowed. “As in not in a good way.”
“I’m curious,” he replied, watching me through hooded eyes. “If it wasn’t in a good way, why did you allow it?”
I inhaled sharply. “I was pretending to be entranced.”
“Hmm.”
“I was!”
“If that’s what you need to tell yourself.”
I caught his meaning and I was this close to throwing my clutch at him. The dude was insufferable and mainly because he was so freaking right, and I sort of hated him for that. “I have no idea how you knew that was me.”
“I… I just knew,” he said like that was an acceptable answer.
Irritation flared to life and I decided right then and there I could also ask demanding, annoying questions as I dropped my clutch on the table. “So why were you at Flux? A club frequented by your enemy?”
He was dragging his thumb along the rim of his glass. “I was there looking for Tobias, but you already know that.”
“Why were you looking for him?”
“Do you always ask so many questions?”
“You wanted to have this chat,” I reminded him, crossing my arms again. “Why were you looking for him?”
“He knows how to find someone I need to speak with.” His gaze dipped and there was a flash of straight, white teeth as he dragged them along his lower lip. I looked away as he said, “Alas, whatever information he had, he took that back to the Otherworld with him.”
“Can’t say I’m too torn about that.”
“Of course not,” he replied wryly.
“What information do you think he had?” I asked.
“He knows where a certain Ancient is that I would really love to murder.”
My brows lifted at that. “Let me guess, an Ancient that sided with the Queen?”
The Prince nodded.
“Do you happen to know his name?”
A heartbeat passed. “Aric.”
That name rang a bell. “Tobias did mention someone by the name of Aric.”
Everything about The Prince became very still, so much so he could’ve stopped breathing. “Did he now?”
“Yes. Aric was coming to meet Tobias and the other fae. He would’ve been there within an hour.”
