Mastering Vidal by Julia Payton

Author:Julia Payton [Payton, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eclipse Press

Chapter 13

Adric

He was a fucking bastard… and he was hiding like a goddamn pussy in his brother’s room. Lazar shot him another questioning look.

“I don’t fucking get it,” his brother said as he found an unoccupied chair and lowered his tall-framed bulk into it. “Just tell her already.”

His muscles overwhelmed the fragile bench, sending shards of it across the room as it bent under his solid weight. Lazar stood again, knocking the seat over in frustration. Adric grinned as his blond-haired brother cursed Rohan for yet another prank.

“You’d think he’d get tired of this shit,” Laz complained, finding another place to sit, this time on the couch beside Paavola. She scooted to the far side, as neither of them liked the other. “I’m just going to throw the damned thing back into his room.”

Paavola offered a suggestion, her soft voice a deception. Adric knew her well, and that coy façade was just that: a mask. “If you react, you know he’s going to keep doing it,” she said. “Keep the chair. Use it, even. Doesn’t matter how, you huge fool. Don’t let him get away with his stupid games. Heck, it could even hold some of this mess you throw all across the room,” she said, wrinkling her nose at the destruction that Laz constantly left in his wake. “Do that, and then see how he reacts.”

Laz turned to her, his voice cold. He was interested in what she said, but knowing his brother, would never admit it. She was right; he could be a huge fool—and definitely was a deliberate mess—more often than not. No one had more fucking pride than Lazar, not even him.

“No one asked for your opinion,” his brother answered.

She shrugged. Crossing her legs delicately, she spoke to Adric, ignoring Lazar. His brother never acted normal when she was around. But then again, neither did she. They were like two children battling it out for the largest portion of pie. Both wanted it. Both would lie, fight, and connive to get it. For those that knew them well, the most intriguing mix of their hate-dynamic was that in the end, they cooperated beautifully when it came to the important things. Adric and Rohan both could count on them to always follow through and to do the right thing for the greater cause. Shame that together they never stood a chance for any sort of friendship.

“Then there’s the real issue at hand. The one that interests me, as a female that’s somehow entangled myself back up into your treachery,” Paavola said. She flicked at her nails, feigned boredom in her gestures but glee in her hazel eyes at the pestering she was about to subject him to. “Do you really think your little playmate’s been intimate with Ro? I mean, even after he’s been moping around complaining of his balls being ready to fall off from lack of use?” she asked him, winningly bland. “Really, Adric? Are you that prideful?”

Yes. Yes, he really fucking was.

Paavola was fortunate he cared for her.

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