Blood and Wolf by S M Gaither

Author:S M Gaither
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-05-22T04:00:00+00:00

Twelve

Anarchy and Secrets

“You’re still mad at me, aren’t you?”

Liam takes another sip of his water and leans away from the table, rolling the tension from his shoulders as he squints toward a couple walking a dog on the sidewalk across from us. “Mad? No. I was never mad at you to begin with, stupid.”

“Just disappointed, right?” I say with a half-hearted grin, because we both know that sounds like something his mother—or mine— would say.

“I’m not your parent.”

“And yet your gee-I-wish-Eleanor-wouldn’t-do-such-dumb-things look is scarily similar to my dad’s.”

He cocks an eyebrow, but says nothing to that, just leans further back in his chair and closes his eyes as if he’s really into the Romanian pop music that this café is serenading its customers with.

“It’s been three days,” I say, “I figured you would have dropped it by now.”

Three days of traveling from Ireland to this quaint little village in the shadow of the Carpathian Mountains, and the two of us have hardly spoken. Every attempt at our normal sort of interaction that I’ve made, he’s managed to deflect, usually by dragging Carys into the conversation and finding some way to get her to start talking about the things she’s been researching in our attempt to zero in on our next target.

It isn’t exactly hard to get her to talk about those things, either. We decided on the general location of the next key, and over the past few days, Carys has essentially downloaded an entire database of Romanian mythology into her brain, hoping to give us an edge on discovering and fighting whatever nasty guardian might be in store for us next.

And I’m glad for it.

Because again: it’s what I should be focusing on.

I shouldn’t be sitting here thinking about how Liam and Soren have kept as much distance as two people traveling together could possibly manage to keep. Or how, every time they have gotten too close to each other, the end result has been clenched fists and threats that Carys and I have just barely managed to deescalate in time.

“If you’re waiting for me to stop being concerned about you, you’re going to be waiting for a lot longer than three days,” Liam says without opening his eyes.

“He helped me that night, you know. Like I told you before. Like twelve times before, I think it’s been now?”

“I don’t like him messing with your mind. Even if he claims it was to heal you. I don’t trust his brand of healing.”

I sink a little deeper into my chair.

“I’m accepting the fact that he’s a necessary evil,” he says, eyes blinking open but still avoiding mine. “I’m accepting that he knows more about the keys and how they work than we do, and so we need him to help possibly cure you or whatever—which I want so badly that I’m willing to put up with the little twerp for as long as I have to. But I don’t like the way he looks at you. Because I swear, he constantly looks like he’s plotting something.

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