Page 96 of Seduced By the Mermen
“Tomorrow,” Zion says.
“Tomorrow?” Blair’s eyes go wide.
“Unless you have plans?”
“No, no plans. I’ll want to talk to Marlee and make sure she’s okay with me going. But I don’t see why she wouldn’t be.”
“I’m going to go arrange it with the headmaster now.” Delmar kisses Blair, then scoots out of bed and heads for the door, but he stops when Blair jumps.
“Who will be the fourth?” Blair blurts. And a look of horror hits her like a blue whale. “Wait, is Sterling going to let me go?
Forrest’s voice is low. “The king said yes, Blair. It doesn’t matter what Sterling says.”
“I don’t want to cause a problem with your pod.”
“You’ll never cause any problems with our pod,” I say and glare at Zion. Atlas and Sterling have a lot in common. As in, they’re both assholes. Atlas might be king, but we have to live with Sterling and there’s no flying fish way he’s going to let Blair leave the Veiled City.
Zion smiles in his overly easy way at me. “Relax, that’s why I went to Atlas. Sterling’s got to go along with it now.”
While Delmar and Clark discuss London on the other side of the room, Blair watches Zion in his deluded denial and me. “Are you sure this is going to be okay?”
I’m about to say we’ll see when Zion cuts me off. “Of course.”
She nods, her blue eyes searching my face. I nod and try to reassure her. But then, I’ve never been a good liar.
Chapter 38
Blair
Iwatch Hunter as he pilots me back to the Glyden dome. He’s younger than Marlee. Maybe by a few years. It’s hard to tell with people in the Veiled City. Everyone is so fit. But I guess that’s the way it is with shifters, and mermen are no different. And the young male is clearly not happy that he’s taking me back. He asked me three times on the way over if I thought I was going to spend the night at the Masons’. Each time he asked, I became a little more embarrassed.
“Did you have plans tonight?”
Hunter’s eyes don’t move from the controls, but his lips dip downward.
“I’m sorry if I kept you from?—”
“You don’t need to apologize to me. I’m doing my job. Following orders.” He’s a good pilot. He scans the dials and watches the dark ocean in front of us. But there’s a certain zing about the word “orders.”
“Right.” I bite back thesorryI was trained to say all those years by Russell. “Well, whomever she is, I’m sure she’s missing you too.”
“I don’t know about that.” He clears his throat. He didn’t mean to admit to it. “We’re almost at Glyden.”
“Oh. Well, you’re a serious male who is good at his job. I’m sure she’ll see the value in that.” I don’t know why I’m prodding into his life? He clearly just wants to get away from me.
“Thank you. I hope so... I was lucky to get this placement.”
“I’m sure talent had a good bit to do with it as well.”
The motors of thesolowhirl as he pilots through the airlock. Hunter maneuvers thesoloup to the dock. “Well, at least you get to go home now.”
He smirks and gives a negative shake of his head.
“What? I’m with the Portsmouth pod. Surely the second coming of Poseidon, the Hero of Hestertåtten, and the Golden Prince can keep me safe?”
“And Eros Portsmouth,” Hunter says, opening the door hatch for me.
“Yes, and Eros.”
