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Bain nodded. "Fair enough. Do you need help to get dry?"
That would be provocative if there wasn't a dead guy a few metres away.
"Who was he?" I asked. I presumed the knife buried in his back was how he died.
"I don't know," Bain said. He gave me a look like he wanted to suggest I try to find out.
I shook my head. "I'm not drawing power in here. It wouldn't end well." I was so weak, if I could draw, I'd probably kill myself with it.
Bain nodded. "Outside, later then."
"Maybe." I couldn't commit either way. "I want to see Knox." I needed to reassure myself he really was okay.
Bain helped me to my feet and tried to pretend he didn't notice when I adjusted the towel so it actually covered my pussy. I couldn't feel less aroused right now, even with him getting an eyeful.
Bain helped me to the doorway.
Knox sat against the wall just outside, his hand to his head. His fingers were bloody, but by the look of it, his wound already started to dry.
He looked up. Relief flooded his expression. "Viva. Thank Hades you're all right."
"You too," I told him. I would have crouched, but he'd get an eyeful too. Plus, no way my legs would hold me. I sank to my knees instead, then flopped the rest of the way to the floor. I lost my grip on the towel so it slid down, exposing my breast.
I jerked it back into place. So much for saving him from an eyeful.
"I'm beginning to think I pissed someone off," I said. "I wish they'd just come to me and tell me why. I might be able to help them."
"You would tell them to fuck off," Bain said.
I looked up at him. "Did you actually tell a joke?"
"Are you saying it's not true?" He eyed my towel in a way that let me know he'd seen the slip too. Hades only knew why he found that provocative. He'd seen all of me a few minutes earlier.
Men are weird.
"It's totally true," I said. "But maybe not sensible. I've already pissed them off enough to want to kill me." Why was that though? If the hemitheos were behind all of this, then why kill me? Unless the tigers were supposed to convince me to join them. They hadn't really made it all that clear. If that was the plan, then it seemed the plan changed.
If that was the case, I had two choices: keep running, or stop and confront them. That might mean taking the fight to them.
I looked at both of the guys. They would totally go with me if I asked them to. And if Dex and the Alpha let them. WouldIlet them? They would be safer a long way from me.
I could deal with the hemitheos and then— Okay, who was I kidding? I couldn't deal with more than one of them by myself. Maybe not even one.
12
Dex
I awokewhen the light snapped on. My head ached. The inside of my mouth was dry and tasted like shit. I stuck out my tongue and grimaced.
My expression didn't change when I saw Devlin still asleep a couple of metres away. Gwendolyn lay curled up on a rug just past him. I caught a hint of red hair in the corner of my eye. Kerina. I couldn't tell if she was breathing.
"You're finally awake."
I didn't recognise the man who spoke, but the pounding in my head made it sound like he was shouting.
I winced. "Dial it back, buddy." There was no reason to be rude. After all, I wasn't dead. Yet. For all I know, he wanted to be friends. This was a shitty way to do it, but not everyone had good social skills.
"What do you want?" I asked. "Why did you do this?" As far as I could tell, we were in one of the bedrooms in the Residence. That told me a couple of things. One, they hadn't taken us far. Two, that my new friend probably wasn't working alone.
