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“Udon’s balls… Yes, there’s a big fucking problem,” he said, running his hand over his face. “You’re recently mated, to averypowerfuland possessive male might I add, and you’re in another male’s home. If you wanted me to die, there are more merciful ways.”
I waved him off. “It’s fine. He’s busy right now anyway. It’ll be some time before he realizes I’m gone.”
Hakoa leaned his head back against the door with a thump. “I donotlike this.”
Malina and I giggled. I knew that Ryker would have lost it if he found me here, but I wasn’t worried since I didn’t plan on being here long.
“I came here to ask a favor of you actually, Hakoa,” I said.
He nodded for me to continue.
“I need you to take me to Voltaryn,” I stated.
He blinked slowly at me. “Why?”
“To speak with Vicria.”
“She hasn’t said a word except demanding to be released, despite our…best efforts. Why do you think she’ll talk to you?” Hakoa tilted his head to the side.
“For one, she has something against me, I don’t know what, but now that Ryker and I are mated, she would have felt it and that may just make her angry enough to talk. And two…” I glanced at Malina out of the corner of my eye.
Her lips spread into a wicked smile. “We have ways.”
He blew out a sharp breath and mumbled, “Ryker is going to kill me.”
“So you’ll take us then?” Malina asked eagerly.
“Us?” he balked.
Malina and I exchanged a look of confirmation before we said in unison, “Yes.”
Hakoa glanced from me to Malina and back again. “Fine. If it will get you out of my barracks, then yes.”
Once Malina and Hakoa got dressed, he led the way toward Voltaryn, our boots crunching against the gravel path heading east, away from the warrior command station. Malina pressed me for details of my mating with Ryker. Hakoa had protested about hearing such details but I ignored him and continued to lay out the specifics and only left out certain descriptions for Hakoa’s sake. Malina’s mouth gaped open farther and farther as I continued. I didn’t miss when Hakoa’s eyes would dart to her when she displayed excitement about a specific detail. Then I told her of the marriage ritual at the temple with Deres.
It was hard to believe how much had happened in just the few months since we had talked like this back in Morah before the Trial. I was Worthy, mated, and wed.
A pang of hurt rang through my chest—I missed Eamon and Nikan. Eamon would be happy for me and while Nikan would likely have never said it, he would be happy for me too. I shook off the thought of them.
“When were you planning on telling me about you banging the Noavo chief?” I leaned in to whisper to my sister with a smile. Malina and I had dropped back a few steps behind Hakoa.
The side of her mouth lifted. “It started as a one time thing when we got drunk that first night in the city but then…it wasn’t.”
“You have feelings for him?” My eyebrows rose and my mouth fell open in genuine shock. I had never heard of Malina sleeping with someone more than once.
She stopped walking, staring at the male walking ahead of us. I stopped next to her. The serious look on her face was rare when she wasn’t being a Roav.
“I don’t know. I don’tnotfeel something but we haven’t exactly talked about what this is or isn’t.”
We continued to follow Hakoa.
“What do you want this to be?” I asked carefully.
She shrugged and her long black hair fell behind her shoulder. “I’m not sure. All I know is that I like what it is right now and I’m not ready for it to change. He may look serious and cold all the time but when it’s behind closed doors, he’s actually very sweet and a big softy.” She smiled. “Even on the first night, when it was supposed to just be some fun after getting hammered in the tavern, he never treated me like a quick fuck.”
Our conversation came to an end when Hakoa stopped at the edge of a small body of water.
“We’re here,” he said.
