Of Wings And Claws

CHAPTER 10

"Maybe if we questioned her friend too, she'll finally speak" Hebe's annoying voice makes my ears ring.

"Leave Emily out of this" I groan and rest my head against the cold table.
"Nobody's talking to you" she retorts making my fingers twitch in anticipation. Just a word, it'll take a single word and a lift of my hand just to send her flying back and hitting her empty head against the wall.

"Oh, I thought I was the one who was being questioned" I reply rolling my eyes a sigh leaving my mouth, I'm tired.

Let me tell you how we got here in the first place.

Lycidas' search squad or should I say Darius' shirtless team came to my room to wake me up before the clock even hit the sixth hour. Who said I wasn't going to wake up by myself anyways? Anyhow, I was dragged out of my room before I even got the chance to wipe the sleep off of my face and brush my teeth. I was still in Ariel's shirt and it was the first thing lord Lycidas' eyes landed on the moment I walked down the stairs, as if he hadn't seen me yesterday. I almost scoff out loud. Hebe was already clinging like a koala on Lycidas' arm as I took the last step into the dining room. "Why aren't we bringing her to the dungeons" she had asked with a smirk that could make my unbrushed teeth rot. "She's not a prisoner yet" the handsome lord had replied with a bored tone. Yet. I noted that.

"Have you seen or talked to the daywalker after his escape" Lycidas asks the same question for the hundred time today.

"Nope" I reply with my face still on the table. "Look at me when I'm talking to you!" Lycidas roars. I draw my face from the table slowly looking at him like he just said he wants to kiss me. " That sounds sexual baby, do you want a release?" My smile is taunting as I lick my lips to support my question. I notice Darius leaning against a chair next to Hebe bringing a hand against his mouth, my guess to stifle a laugh.

"I'm the only one who calls him that, bitch"

"Of course you are, witch"

"Enough!" Lycidas roars again massaging his temples. "This isn't getting us anywhere, Darius, Anwar, Jericho, go search her room for me. Make it quick"

I see Anwar's sour expression turn into something much worse, boredom or annoyance I don't know. Jericho is a new face I haven't seen around and he's nothing special, curly brown hair that looked like a dirty mop cut in half sat on top of his head, he had a small build like Anwar's but more lazy like he hadn't seen a gym a day in his life which made me wonder how he even got in the search team, unless Lycidas' search team was wack like his girlfriend.

The three disappear up the stairs leaving me with the Lord, the wack girlfriend and Mikael who looks like he'd rather be out chasing rainbows than here.

"Can I ask you something Mikael?" I disturb the silence and I see Hebe's ears growing three inches listening attentively to what I wanted to ask the second in command. Lycidas just looks at me like he's seeing a regular old lady shoving a cart down a grocery store.

"Is it a nom in your pack that you disobey fate and go around playing house with people who aren't your mates?"

I seem to have struck a nerve because lord Lycidas' hands and lips twitch at the same time and he stops his pacing looking at me dead in the eye. "No, no it's not Lun— quee— I mean Melody" I watch Mikael stutter in shame and I tsk shaking my head.

"Then tell me why am I treated like a doormat that does nothing but wipe the bottom of your shoes even when you just stepped on shit while I watch the man I'm supposed to call mine kiss, fuck and makeout with another woman that's not me every single day and your pack just says nothing. You wake up, eat, look at me like I've just killed the moon goddess and bow down to that woman's ravy ass time and time again" I point at Hebe.