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"Very wise," Kyra repeated.
"Just because he didn't tie the knot with Anna doesn't mean he won't settle down," Thalia scolded her friend.
"Besides Anna, these damn sirens have their grips in Oceanus's men so deep…" Kyra shuddered, "I really don't like those creatures."
"Who is Anna?" I asked experiencing a small wave of resentment moving inside me at the mention of her.
"Anna was on my team." Kyra divulged, "she envied my relationship with Duncayn and wanted to find that with Myles. Unfortunately Myles didn't ask her to stay when it was time to leave," Kyra shrugged as if that was the end of the story, but some prickling sensations in my heart made me aware that I didn't like the idea of Myles with another woman, especially not a human one.
"Anna later said that the men of Oceanus only want to be with their sirens and nobody else," Kyra intimated.
"I'm not too fond of the sirens either," I admitted, hoping to downplay my unease about this Anna.
Nobody seemed to notice though as our conversation turned to the sirens. Saskia too shuddered when she rejoined our group.
MYLES
As expected, our discussion about how to proceed with the Chrymphten turned loud and aggressive. Out of fourteen vissigroths, seven had arrived here. All of us alpha males, used to absolute command and power.
Since this was my planet and my mission, I asserted my authority as leader in the absence of our susserayn. It wasn't easy and I was sure one or the other would challenge me again, but Darryck, Treyton and Duncayn supported me and with them at my back the others would sooner or later follow. Grudgingly, but they would submit to my lead.
That wasn't to say that each one of them didn't have their own input on how we should attack the Chrymphten once they showed themselves. And that discussion too, turned heated within moments.
I was glad when it was just me and Niara again after a long feast that followed our war talk. I wasn't in the least prepared for another attack.
"Why can't I just go back to my quarters?" Niara objected when I told her that for the next few nights we needed to share a bedroom in the penthouse.
"Because all the other vissigroths have their rooms here," I repeated patiently, "and I need to stay up here in case we need to discuss something."
"I get that, but why do I have to stay here?"
My head was killing me from earlier shouting matches and the noisy feast. Neither my mind nor my body where in the mood for another drawn out debate. Least of all with my hostage.
"Because you are my hostage," I repeated in case she had forgotten, "not my guest, my hostage! You will sleep close to me so I can make sure you don't escape."
She rolled her eyes, aggravating me even further. "And where would I escape to? And what would I do? Do you really think I would run to Nathan and tell him not to meet with the Chrymphten? Do you really think I want them to attack Oceanus? This is my planet too." For good measure she pushed her fists into her hips, glaring up at me.
The worst was that she was right about this. Every one of her questions made perfect sense.
But she hadn't noticed the hungry looks of the other, unbound vissigroths she had received, hadn't heard their questions if the human seffy was with me or free to pursue. It seemed every vissigroth wanted a human seffy now and I would be damned if I allowed them to pursue my… hostage. That's all she was. My hostage. Mine!
"The situation is to precarious right now. I can't afford chasing you down in case—" I knew how weak my argument was, even before she interrupted me.
"Fine, I promise, I swear, I won't run away. You can even lock me in my room if you want to."
That hurt. Not that I was going to admit it to her, but damn. Why was the thought of her and I sharing a room for a few nights so abhorrent to her?
She interpreted the determination on my face right. "What about another room up here then?"
Where all the other vissigroths had access to? Without me knowing? No fucking way. "There are, but like I said I want you with me."
Even to my own ears I sounded like a petulant child.
"Oh, you're impossible," she fumed. "So you decided because I can't lock a door here, to force me to sleep here. With you."
That stung. "For your information, you locking your door accomplished nothing. If I had wanted to get in I would have gotten in, trust me."
"Good gods," she threw her hands up in the air, staring at me. I stared right back.
