Blind Salvage: A Rylee Adamson Novel(36)

“Hell, I hope not,” I said, though I knew there was a good chance she did. Would explain how she was able to move around, even before she learned to jump the veil.
“Speaking of her, what the hell happened with you two?” Dox again shifted his weight, long legs obviously cramped even in his big truck. I was saved from having to talk about Milly by a red light pinging on the dashboard. I tapped it with one finger.
“We’re running low on diesel. I’ll take the next exit.” I flicked my blinker on, checked my mirrors and pulled off the interstate. The thing was, Milly was on my shit list, and nothing could change that. There would have to be an absolute miracle for her to no longer be on the wrong end of my sword. Yet even with that, with my resolve to end things with her, it still hurt me. Made me vulnerable to her. More than anything, I was happy to have dodged that particular conversation. Much as I hated her now, Milly had been my closest friend at one time. Had been like my sister. Which I had no doubt was why when she betrayed not only me, but Giselle too, the rage she inspired in me was like nothing I’d ever felt before. Love and hate, so entwined in me when it came to Milly, it was like a physical pain. One I avoided as much as possible.
Fuelling up didn’t take long, and then Liam offered to drive. Dox, laughing, shook his head. “Don’t think that’s a good idea, man. You need to ride in the back seat, as far from the engine as possible.”
With a frown, Liam climbed back in, but he didn’t argue. I stretched my back and legs before getting into the truck on the passenger side, feeling my vertebrae pop and my muscles protest the movement. My body was pretty much all healed up, but sitting for so long made me stiff.
Dox started the truck, the engine turning over twice before it coughed to life.
“Now, you were about to tell me what happened with Milly?”
Shit.
“I don’t want to talk about it.” I slumped in my seat like a sullen child and closed my eyes.
“I didn’t ask if you wanted to talk about it. I asked what happened.”
Liam made a choking sound in the back seat and I whipped around to see him looking at me all too innocently. I narrowed my eyes at him, but he just smiled.
I shifted in my seat so that I could stare out the windshield. “She tried to kill Alex, Eve, and Liam, and succeeded in killing Giselle.”
Dox’s hands tightened on the steering wheel. “Giselle’s gone?”
I lifted my feet and set them on the dash. “Yeah. Just before I headed to London.”
“Shit! Rylee, I didn’t know. How is it that Milly’s still alive then?” He knew me well enough, apparently.
“She’s pregnant,” I said, softly.
“Oh.”
That one word encompassed it all. I couldn’t kill her while she was pregnant or I’d be breaking my oaths. And as much as she might be willing to do that, I wasn’t.
“Since we’re spilling secrets,” I said, spinning in my seat and setting my feet against the middle console. “Why did you get booted out of ogre country? Or is Doran wrong about that?”#p#分页标题#e#
The ogre’s mouth thinned to a tight blue line. Hmm. Interesting.
“Hello, Dox? I asked you a question.” I tapped a foot on the console, but his hands just tightened on the wheel and his mouth thinned even more, if that was possible.
“I told you about Milly.”
He hunched his shoulders. “This is different.”
“Really, why?”
“Because it is.”
Gods, childish much? “Is it going to affect this salvage, the reason you were booted out?” I needed to know at least that much.
He tipped his head a little to one side, and the tip of his tongue flicked out and touched the ring through the middle of his lower lip before he answered. “It shouldn’t.”
Well, as long as he was right, I couldn’t get too pissy. I let him be. I could see that there was going to be no convincing him at this point to say anything more than he already had. Maybe later. Though, if what Doran had said was true, and Dox had been kicked out because of some perceived weakness, we could actually have more difficulty with him along for the ride than if we were going in alone. Liam chilled in the back seat, his hand resting on the console next to mine. Not touching me, just being there.
“What did Doran tell you?”
I didn’t want to keep anything from Liam, but telling him that Doran thought I was going to fall in love with someone else was not high on my list of priorities, even if it was weighing on my mind as heavily as the salvage.
“He thinks that there might be a demon and a sacrifice involved.”
Liam groaned. “Haven’t we already done this once?”