Page 89 of Outlaw Witch

Fabian squeezes my hand again, his eyes imploring me to listen. To understand. “They don’t know. They’re both convinced you’re just a witch that can do blood magic. An anomaly. And you’ll find they were both too busy last night to have thought anything of what I asked of you.”

I open my mouth to ask how he can be so sure, when he pulls my hand to his lips and presses a gentle kiss to each of my knuckles in turn.

I’m flabbergasted by his gentle care. My stomach swoops and my chest grows warm as we both ignore Seb as he pretends to gag in the background.

“Trust me, Silver. They wouldn’t care if they knew. Your secrets are safe.”

“What’s got you all growly, Sil?”Ember finally replies, sounding far too amused.

“You. Fucker.”

“Ah,” Ember says. “Well, I was kinda banking on you not finding out. Didn’t expect the Prince of Thieves over there to spill, or his memory mangling little bro.”

“Nota good answer,”I growl back.

“I’m going to slap the little fucker six ways til Sunday,” I announce to Fabian and Seb.

“As hot as that sounds and don’t think I don’t want all the details, we have a serious problem,” Roscoe announces as he strides into the room with Zeph stomping up not far behind. Seriously, the guy huffs and puffs so much, you’d think he had a recessive dragon gene or something.

“The vamps and some of our lower-level mages seem to be joining forces, trying to knock our legs out from under us so the whole tower will fall.”

26

Roscoe

Over the past few months, I’ve been experiencing this weird mix of exhaustion, boredom, and extreme frustration. So much so, it feels like my brain’s about to melt out of my ears into a puddle of goop on the floor.

And my brothers call me dramatic?

Pah.

But seriously, I’ve been to more meetings in the past couple of months than anyone would want to in their lifetime.

Let’s just say I knew it before, but it’s been confirmed a whole bunch of times. I’m not a meeting guy. I’m not someone that can slip on a tie and act like I give a shit about whatever boring issue is being discussed.

I’m the guy that tries to pickpocket those guys while they’re too distracted talking about stocks, or their latest meal plan. I’m also the guy that fucks with people for shits and giggles and not because wehaveto.

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