“Why?”
“Because he’s the vampire Alpha, Acadia. Being under this roof with males who will not, under any circumstance, submit to his will… For a vampire, that’s not easy. Especially him. He needs space from us, but he wants to remain close.”
“And Bijou?”
“He’d prefer she stay here. At least until he can get back to some semblance of normalcy.”
“Who’ll live there with him?” Not that she cared. Really. She didn’t.
“From what I gather, he’s located some of the Zenith.”
But she thought they’d all been killed in the raids. At least that was what they’d learned on the Misplaced Halos message boards. Not exactly CNN, but it gave them insight into what was going on for those species the humans didn’t know existed.
“Hey, Obsidian? You got a minute?”
Acadia waved him off. “Go. Take care of that. I … uh … I just need some time to myself.”
“You sure? I’m here, Acadia. Anytime you want to talk.”
“I know.”
She turned away from him, needing a minute for all this to sink in. Although she wasn’t convinced any amount of time would allow for that to happen, it was imperative she get her thoughts in order.
Otherwise, she had no chance of confronting Kaj. About anything, least of all whatever this was between them.
Chapter Thirty-Eight
“She cool?” Reidar asked Obsidian when thebig boss man strolled back into the war room.
Obsidian waved him off, as usual. “She’s fine. A little antsy but she’s worried about Kaj.”
“That male can take care of himself,” Reidar assured him.
“I know that, and you know that, but Acadia … she’s not seeing him the same way we are.”
Because she was looking through the rosy veil of her feelings for the male. Reidar got it. More so than he wanted to admit. The way things stood between him and Winnie had Reidar feeling like he was free-falling without wings to slow his descent. And though he’d managed to hold Winnie off for the time being, he knew he was merely biding his time. Or wasting hers, as Winnie had told him that evening when he woke.
Not that she was wrong. However, wiping out entire sections of her memory wasn’t something he was looking forward to. He blamed himself for jumping the gun, for getting her into this mess in the first place. If he’d simply done his damn job and kept an eye on her from afar, Winnie never would’ve known he existed, and she damn sure wouldn’t have been immersed in a world that technically wasn’t supposed to be real according to human lore.
“Can you get me a location on Kaj?”
Obsidian’s voice registered, pulling Reidar out of his scrambled thoughts and back on the task at hand.
“Last we picked up on him, he was hunkered down in an abandoned warehouse nearby,” Reidar informed him.
“Good. That means he’s close. And Michael?”
Reidar peered over at the male. “What about him?”
“Is he here?”
Reidar frowned. “Why would he be?”
Obsidian exhaled heavily. “I need some face time with my brothers. By the end of the week.”
“Can I tell them what it’s about?”
“I’ll let it be a surprise.”
