Page 46 of Messenger of Death
“Who?” Lucian asked.
Because ifanyoneneeded that information, it was my vampire. We just needed to point him towards a name and he could get the information we needed.
“I mean, that Adrian guy who thinks he’s Jesus, but we’ve all played around with him. He’s a giant horn dog who doesn’t take anything seriously, but he’s a generous lover and he has this way of making you feel safe. Trust me, we have built in detectors on that kind of thing because of how we feed. Some of us are drawn to the dangerous ones, but Odessa was never like that.
“Shewasseeing someone she wouldn’t tell us about becausehedidn’t want anyone to know. We aren’t built for monogamy and wehaveto feed to survive. She could have been with her mystery man, but she just as easily could have been with Adrian or someone else. We only would have known if she sent the first check in.”
“Can you get me a list of people she saw regularly?” Lucian asked.
We were already looking at Adrian because he was in the same quadrant when Lola was hurt. I wasn’t a succubus, but I didn’t particularly feel like Adrian was dangerous, either. He seemed like one of those guys who floated through life never taking anything seriously, but if you just needed to escape your life for a while and have a good time, he’d take care of you. Then again, I found him kind of gross sometimes when he opened his mouth, so maybemygut feeling was completely wrong.
“Yeah. Hey, we’re having a vigil at the tavern for the missing and the dead. There’s going to be food and live music. No karaoke this time. There’s an ancient grand piano in the back and a set of bongos. It’s live, original music only because there’s power in it.”
“Can anyone get up there?” Liam asked.
“You have to run it by Old Jingo. His family has been running that tavern for centuries, but Old Jingo was the one who decided you can’t perform if you suck. He puts fruit at all the tables so people can pelt anyone who can’t sing with it.Ithought you were good, but you weren’t exactly singing and if Old Jingo is doing an original music night, you have to have the complete package.”
“Thanks. I’ll talk to Old Jingo. We’re looking into who is doing this. We’ll find them.”
“No offense, but we came to you because ofher,”she said, pointing at me. “When she wakes up, whoever is doing this should be very afraid.”
Yeah, no pressure on that or anything because I wasn’t even sure if I should trust my own feelings right now. Adrian was in the same quadrant and was sleeping with someone who disappeared. Lola had the shit beaten out of her and Lucian’s blood was probably the only reason she’d made it out of the woods.
I just had this feeling Adrian wasn’t evil, despite the gross things he said sometimes, and Lola was. I had zero proof onanything.
Maybe Scorpia would give mesomethingto go on besides my feelings.
Ididn’t particularly like letting Sage go off into town on her own, but Saffron was with her and Scorpia sounded like a badass old lady. It was rather rude she didn’t want to whisper fairy secrets in my ear, though. Especially since I was put in fairy classes and Sage wasn’t.
At any rate, weneededsome male bonding time, so we didn’t drive Sage away bickering. And frankly, there were services Ouroboros Academy didn’t offer that the three of us were desperately in need of.
I refused to tell these wankers where we were going because I knew they were going to get precious about it, but ithadto bedone. It wasn’t like I was asking them to get their dick pierced or a tattoo.
I finally revealed what we were doing when we got to the spa.
“Listen, it’srudeto point your cock at a girl when it looks like you’ve got a damned Yeti in your pants. You gotta manscape because there’s nothing worse than getting a pube in your mouth or watching a lass choke on yours. I’mnotasking you to get pierced or tattooed. I’m asking you to get your sack waxed so Sage doesn’t have to endure that trauma.”
“Oh, fuck you,” Khalid groaned.
“Ialwayswax. It’s hygienic,” Lucian said.
Well, shite. I was looking forwards to the little buggar hollering when they ripped that first piece of wax off. I shaved, but I didn’t wax. The whole reason I booked an appointment to have my nuts waxed was to fuck with Lucian. I couldn’t back out now without looking like a dipshit.
Fuck me. If I hadn’t been so engrossed with Sage’s pussy and checked Lucian out when he was wanking while watching us, Imighthave noticed he waxed and not booked this excursion. Then again, Lucian and Khalid wereveryhetero, and I didn’t make it a point to peek when they werethatstraight.
I guess I was getting my sack waxed because I wascommitted.
I wrapped my arms around Khalid and Lucian’s shoulders and started leading us inside. Lucian used his vampire speed to dart away and get to the door first, which was just cheating. Arsehole.
I marched up to the desk and gave our names.
“Full body wax, right?”
“No!” Khalid said.
“Absolutely,” Lucian said at the same time.
Shite, I wasn’t backing out, but maybe Icouldchange the scene a bit.
