Page 247 of Hunters and Prey

Big Brother

BLACK WATCHED MIRI head for the door to the cavernous space, frowning.

He’d said her name… twice.

She hadn’t even looked at him.

He was still staring after her, his jaw hardening as he went over what he’d felt in her light right before she walked away––

When strong fingers gripped his bicep, making him jump.

Black turned, tensing, and found glass-like eyes staring down at him, a hard, narrow mouth curled into an unambiguous frown.

“I’d like a word,” Revik growled. “…Cousin.”

Black blinked, staring up at him.

Then he scowled.

“Not right now,” he said, glancing at the long house door. “I need to––”

“Yes. Right now.”

Black turned, staring up at him. “No,” he said. “I thought we were about to start some witch doctor thing––”

But the other seer wasn’t listening to him.

Gripping him tighter, Revik half-dragged, half-steered Black away from the gray-eyed, human-looking seer and his drop-dead gorgeous, Thai-looking wife. He steered Black past a handful of other seers, in the direction of the front door of the cavernous room.

The taller male brought him to an unoccupied section of floor, maybe twenty yards from the door leading outside, and let go of him.

He didn’t let Black go gently.

He released him with a half-shove that nearly made Black lose his balance.

It was rough enough, aggressive enough, with enough of a kick of light behind it, that Black’s jaw hardened before he’d even turned.

“What the fuck’s your problem, man?”

“Funny you should ask,” Revik growled. “I was about to ask you the same goddamned thing.”

Black stared at him.

When the other didn’t go on, he scowled.

“Meaning what?” Black said. “What exactly did I do wrong this time, cousin, other than do exactly what––”

But Revik wasn’t interested in what he had to say.

He didn’t even seem to be listening to him.

“What did she do?” Revik growled. “Why are you mad at her?”

Black stared at him.

Then, realizing what the other seer meant––and, more to the point, who he meant––Black’s jaw hardened to stone.

His voice dropped to a growl. “Explain to me where anything about her or me is any of your goddamned business… cousin.”

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