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They nodded before turning on their heels and leaving Samkiel and me alone.
“Save the lecture, please. I need to get naked so you can dig the glass shards out of my back.”
Fifty-Nine
Cameron
Xavier and I landed outside the council hall and walked up the main staircase to the second floor.
“It could have been worse,” Xavier said, echoing my thoughts.
I shoved my hands further into my pockets. “Oh yes, let’s allow her to get beat up some more while we pretend a whole clan of vampires didn’t sneak by us.”
“He said it was supposed to work.” Xavier shrugged. “We have to help as much as we can.”
I stopped at the top of the stairs, one hand gripping the thick cream-colored banister. The halls were empty. It was well past sunset, and the moon hung high in the sky.
“I know. It’s just that it feels different. Don’t you feel it? Like we’re waiting for the other shoe to drop.”
Xavier chuckled, folding his arms. “You have been hanging out with Logan too much. You have picked up some interesting expressions from Onuna.”
“Maybe, but am I wrong? You feel it, too, right?”
Xavier picked at the side of his lip and nodded. “Yes.”
I pushed off the banister. “See, I’m not crazy.”
“Hey, I never said that.”
I lunged, wrapping my arm around his neck and bending him forward. Xavier’s laugh echoed off the walls. It would always be my favorite sound. I grinned as he tried and failed several times to make me release him.
“You still suck at this,” I joked.
He twisted, trying to flip me off him, and grunted, “Or you just go for the low blow.”
He was right. I knew his left side was weaker, but he also just sucked at grappling. Give him those circular twin death blades, though, and he was unstoppable.
“Is it done? Did it work?”
Roccurem’s voice came out of nowhere, startling us both. We broke apart, and Xavier coughed and straightened the front of his shirt as I took a step back.
“Gods above, Roccurem, a bell, wear it,” I snapped, my heart racing. I blamed it on the fate that appeared out of thin air and nothing else. Nothing more. “And I don’t know. We got our asses handed to us, and we left, so you tell me. You’re the fate.”
Roccurem only waited, his face blank.
“You also didn’t mention an entire vampire coven showing up,” Xavier said, folding his arms over his.
“It was necessary.”
Xavier scoffed. “Yeah, necessary. As in, we’re probably dead when Samkiel returns.”
“We wouldn’t have let it go so far, but someone,” I glared at Roccurem, “insisted.”
Roccurem’s six opaque eyes opened, and he gazed into the distance. “It is a delicate task to heal a heart so damaged and broken. I am afraid that even with all of Samkiel’s powers, Kaden may have succeeded quite thoroughly in his plan to tear them apart. It is still not enough. I will have to intervene a little further.”
“Intervene further?” I asked. “What have you already done?”
Roccurem disappeared in a cloud of dust and stars without answering my question.
