Red Moon Secrets(65)

Drackus winks at her and her cheeks turn pink.  Oh...that’s so disgusting.  Bile rises to my mouth.
"Are you two—back together?" I ask, sounding a little shocked.
Mom's grin curls up, and I groan as I smother my face against Kane's chest.
"We only split up to keep you safe, Alyssa.  Then we saw each other in secret when we could.  I remarried a few times, but only to keep up pretenses," Mom says softly, making my stomach turn.
A few, I scoff inwardly.  She's had more husbands than a black widow—um, the human kind.
Shay walks in, and her eyes meet my mother's warily.
"Calypso," she mutters in greeting, standing taller than usual.
Mom stands taller, too.  Is this a female alpha standoff?
"Shay," she murmurs coolly, keeping her expression plain.
Chaz looks back and forth between the two, probably worried punches are soon to come, but neither Mom nor Shay say anything else.
"Shower," Drackus says, wrapping his arms around my mother as he stands.  "Then someone can fill us in on what all has happened, since we found absolutely nothing during our pointless time away.  Our source never showed up."
Yeah—I'll let them have a second to breathe before I knock the air out of them with all we've found.
 
"I'm going to fucking kill him," Kane says for the hundredth time since he found out about the Aphrodite spell Gage cast on me.  Should. Not. Have. Told. Him.
"Not if I kill him first," Drackus says, repeating the same line he's said every time Kane has made that threat.
I sigh out, wishing I could find a way to save Gage from whatever wrath Kane will have.  I won't let him actually kill him.  Besides, I'm going to kick his ass first.
"It was his deluded way of keeping Alyssa safe," Mom says with a sigh, only defending the dark user to defuse my father.
I'm actually worried about Gage.  The Aphrodite spell will only hurt him if we don't break it soon.  And he'll have to be willing to break it.  If he refuses, he could suffer forever.  I'll only feel the effects when I'm around him without Kane.  Something tells me Kane will never leave me around the dark user without him ever again.
"Where is Dray, damn it?" Drackus curses, eyeing his phone that has been disassembled to keep Gage from finding us.
He'd love for Gage to find us so he could shred him, but Mom made him take his phone apart.  Thank God.
"He had to grab us some clothes, and he took the girls to see if they could catch any scents.  They should be back soon," Deke groans, repeating himself—again.
Drackus is impatient, restless, and so damn annoying.  Maybe that's the real reason he was banished to his pocket of the world.
Mom leans over and kisses his cheek, and he tugs her to be on his lap.  When she giggles, I fight back a gag.  Wrong.  This is so wrong.
"You okay?" I ask, looking at Kane who could quite literally bite through steel right now.
He clamps his hands together as he leans over, rocking back and forth as his anger tries to boil out of his every surface.  When my hand grazes his leg, it's met by rigid tension and hostile breaths.
"Please calm down," I murmur when he doesn't answer my stupid question.
"Calm down?" he asks, looking at me with an incredulous gawk.
I lean over and press a soft kiss to his shoulder, and some of his tenseness breaks as he pulls me to him.  When our lips touch, a loud, overly-exaggerated cough rings out as Drackus tries to warn my night stalker.
I smile against the chaste kiss, and Kane withdraws, finally seeming less pissed.
A hazy fog forms in the room, and Dray appears, dropping two bags in front of Kane.
"It's about bloody time you got back," Drackus sneers, his usually subtle British accent flaring up once again.
"Easy, Drackus.  I had to be careful.  Damn council watchmen are everywhere looking for us.  I had to tap into some deep magic to get in, but blood supplies were necessary, and it's too risky to go asking for blood around here.  The girls couldn't even shift."#p#分页标题#e#
"Where are they?" Deke asks, standing up.
"Here," Amy growls as she and Sierra walk in.  She wisely avoids any and all eye contact with me.  Since the big truth bomb was dropped about Kane being intended for me, she hasn't looked my way at all.
Am I little smug?  No.  I'm very smug.
Kane's not bonded to her; not like she thinks.  She's only tied to his night stalker, which will die when he changes to be like me, severing his bond to her forever.  He's mine.  I dare her to challenge me on that.
"That should hold us over until we get this sorted out," Dray says, kicking a bag closer to Kane and knocking me out of my wicked reverie.