Page 41 of Jay's Silence

Lux snorted, and Jay slid to my front. “I guess it’s less riding and more carrying,” she said, waiting to be picked up.

“Jay, we can’t keep butting heads,” I said. “We need to come to some agreement.”

Jay pursed her lips. “We did. For now, orgy is out. I get it, but it doesn’t mean I can’t ask. Over and over and fucking over.”

Tyson smirked, and I fumed. “That isn’t respecting our decision.”

Jay took a deep breath. “Probably. Just get us to Dublin. One bloody thing at a time.”

I clenched my fists, but I couldn’t argue.

Soon enough, I was in the air with Jay in my arms. Bare-chested and shivering, I pulled her close. An unnatural warm wind picked up, helping steer me directly to Dublin. I looked down to see Tyson and Lux’s magic slightly glowing in Jay’s eyes. It didn’t take long for a large, sprawling city to appear. A massive building, not quite in the center, looked exactly like a pint glass. It had a lipped roof, which would give us decent cover.

“That one,” we said at almost the same time.

Jay grinned, and the air under my wings doubled in speed before cutting out directly above the building. I let myself fall,still cradling Jay and landed with a soft thud. Jay rolled to the lip, staying low.

“It’s mostly glass at the top,” Tyson said, already hanging upside-down over an edge. “With a metal staircase and a door along that bit with no glass.” He pointed.

Jay sighed, her attempt to stay out of sight wasted. “That would be an emergency exit. While you’re looking, are their security cameras on it?”

“Yup,” Tyson said. “Someone’s waving at me, should I wave back?”

“No!” Jay sprinted forward and pulled him up. “We’re not supposed to be up here. We will, as quickly as possible, slip into that emergency exit and pretend we belong.” She turned to Lux. “Lux, I’ve seen the air spark with electricity when you’re angry. Can you control that?”

“Yes,” Lux nodded.

“Great,” she walked to where I assumed the emergency exit was. “Follow Tyson’s footsteps and fry the cameras.”

Tyson snorted, and Jay narrowed her eyes at him. “You do not get credit for doing the wrong thing, even if it helped us in the end.”

Tyson smirked while Lux did what she asked. Static filled the air, and little lines of electricity ran from the air prince's fingers into the wall a few feet on either side of him. Pops of electrics burst as Lux’s magic fried more than just the camera.

“Ah, maybe not as much control as I thought.” Lux batted his long eyelashes at Jay. “I think I fried the door as well. It’s been a while.”

Jay wrinkled her nose. “It is what it is, inside now.”

With our tank tops back in place, we dropped down, shuffled through the slightly smoking door, and found ourselves at the edge of a large room with floor-to-ceiling windows and even more people. The smell of dark beer permeated the space,and bodies pressed together made the room almost stifling hot compared to the outside. I’d never been in a room so full of humans or dragon shifters. The press of bodies slowly churned, gravitating toward the windows where phones and cameras snapped and flashed. It was something else, and my dragon retreated to a far corner of my mind, extremely uncomfortable.

I wasn’t a tall dragon shifter. Pretty average, really. But in here, I felt like a giant. Only a few people stood at my height, and I found myself peering down at everyone.

“How did you get out there?” a man asked, bumping my shoulder in the press of bodies.

I furrowed my eyebrows. “Ah, the door popped right open?”

“Cool,” the man said and shoved past us.

Someone grabbed my hand, and I jerked back, only to realize it was Jay. My mate gave me a reassuring smile. I calmed a little before she tugged me through the crowd.

It didn’t take us long to find the exit, go down another flight of stairs, and slip into another well-lit room. This one was not packed shoulder to shoulder with bodies. Jay guided us to a table made of barrels. She fanned out bits of paper with a golden harp on it. “Who’s getting us beers?”

“Where did you get those?” I asked.

“I swiped them off the bar upstairs.” Jay narrowed her eyes. “Do you want beer or not?”

Tyson stole the papers out of her hands. “It’s not Scotland, but it’s close enough. I want everything.”

Jay grinned, and Rehan shook his head while the fire prince sauntered to the bar.

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