Page 39 of The Stone Secret
CHAPTER17
SERATH
Ican’t believe what Selas is saying to me right now. “You left her with him?”
Selas sighs. “She’s perfectly safe.”
“Withhim.” I take the steps to the observatory watchtower three at a time. I don’t bother to turn on the lights. I don’t need them. Besides, I need to be incognito while I spy on Cam and her ex-lover.
I spot them on the gravel path that leads to the tower. He looms over her like a dark cloud, his large frame blocking most of her smaller one from view, but I can see the oval of her face turned up to his. It’s impossible to read her expression from this distance, but I’m hoping it’s one of indifference. Disgust even.
Dammit, I need the telescope, but my feet remain rooted to the spot as the male reaches up to touch her face. Why is he touching her? What the actual fuck?
“Serath, calm down.” Selas places a hand on my shoulder.
“Stop that!” I shrug her off. “I don’t need calming down. I need that impudent wretch to get his hands off my woman.”
“What are we looking at?” Orix drawls from behind us.
“Serath is spying on Cam and the Ulrickson male,” Selas says.
“Without the telescope?” Orix sounds genuinely confused.
I take a step toward the contraption, but Selas blocks me.
“Don’t,” she says. “You’ll just make yourself feel worse.”
Orix’s adopted cat pads closer and meows as if in agreement.
But I need to see. “I have to see her face.” Need to see how she looks at him.
“She deserves her privacy,” Selas says.
Bullshit. “If she wanted privacy, she wouldn’t be on the path in plain view.”
“Youwanther to have privacy with him?” Orix asks.
My chest rumbles, the beast inside waking up.
“Will you stop goading him?” Selas snaps at Orix.
Far below us, Cam pulls away from Levi and puts distance between them.
The knot in my belly eases. “That’s my girl.”
“Oh boy,” Selas groans.
I don’t need an audience while I act like a lovesick youngling. “Don’t you have somewhere to be?”
“You mean aside from watching you spy on your mate?” Orix retorts.
They’re both right. This is ridiculous. What am I doing?
Something soft rubs against my ankles, and I look down to see two peridot eyes staring up at me. Taz meows and bumps his head against my leg as if to say,It’s okay. We understand.
I exhale and step away from the window.
“You need to give her as much space as you can,” Selas says. “It’ll be hard enough having her under this roof every night. Hard seeing her every day. Hard for both of you.”
