She stood, too, matching his anger with her own. “I am bored! I spend my days alone! Locked inside a house, not able to see the sun! Not able to find anyone who wants to stay with me. Do you know how hard it is being a vampire with no family and friends? No! because you have Severin. Youalwayshave him, and who do I have? No one! So, yes, I am bored. And lonely. And tired of this fucking thing never ending!”
She stormed out, likely to leave and have us deal with our mess ourselves. Unless she found a room to crash in, but I doubted it.
“Um,” Giro looked guilty as he looked up at Peter, who still stood, his anger pouring out of him. “Now likely isn’t the time to admit that Felix and I added truth potion to the wine.”
Chapter 31
Felix
“Truth potion?! Are you two out of your minds?” Sev seethed, pacing our bedroom floor. He’d taken me straight here, likely to yell at me in the privacy of our own rooms. I hoped Giro was finding it easier to deal with Peter.
“We didn’t trust her,” I snapped, crossing my arms over my chest and glared from where I sat on theedge of our bed.
“Peter drank it, too! Do you have any idea what he could have told her?”
“Giro would jump him if he started spilling secrets!”
He threw his hands up in defeat. “She could have helped us! Instead, she left before we got any answers from her friend!”
“Don’t blame me!” I sniffed. “You and Peter keep us out of everything and just expect us to go along with it, with strangers coming into our home. You never ask for our opinions on it, never ask for our help. No, we just make our potions and leave you to deal with everything.”
“We did that to protect you! All of this is to protect you both, to keep you safe!”
“But we never asked to be forgotten! Giro and I spend our time making potions and talking about how we wish we could help out more. How unsafe we feel with all of these strangers coming.”
“You have not been forgotten, my heart. But for once I have someone else other than Peter who I could lose. Please do not ask me to not protect you. I cannot do that.”
I sighed, a soft smile forming on my lips. “I never said that, just please involve us in stuff. Like with Reminia, we had no idea who toexpect. Which was why we figured a truth potion would help us out. What if she worked with the coven?”
He sat down next to me. “I did not know this was how you felt about it. I thought you and Giro preferred doing your own thing. I should not simply have assumed. But regarding Reminia, did you never stop to think what you were doing was wrong? You forced the truth from her; you took away her consent like the Silver Lock Coven does to their witches. How are we now better than them?”
My eyes widened with realization. “Gods,” I breathed. “I can’t believe I did that. I only thought about keeping us safe, not about what it would do to her.”
“Because she is a vampire?” he questioned, not unkindly. Was that the reason I’d done it? Would I have done it had she been a human?
I shook my head. “I can’t even tell you why. Am I turning into the villain?”
He huffed out a laugh. “No, my precious, Felix. You simply let your fear guide you. But from now on we will do this as a team. And from the sounds coming from Peter and Giro’s room they are in agreement with that.”
“Oh, they’re talking about this, too?” I figured they would, with how angry Peter had seemed.
“Um, no.”
I tilted my head. “Then how do you know?”
“I can hear their bed springs creak. I will not comment on what other sounds I can hear. I would rather pretend to have gone deaf.”
I burst out a laugh. “Really?! They’re doing it right now?”
“Yes,” he grimaced.
I grinned, but it then unease crept in. “What if she knew? Or figured it out? Oh my God. What do we do?!”
“I do not know,” he replied, way too calmly for my liking.
“What do you mean, you don’t know?! She’s your friend, what do you think?”
“I think she no longer sees me as a friend, as you very well remember, she was not too fond of me.”
