Sinner (Carnaval de la Mort Book 1) by A. A. Davies & Abigail Davies

Author:A. A. Davies & Abigail Davies [Davies, A. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

Seven

I shifted on the mountain of pillows for what must have been the hundredth time. Helios side eyed me, but he didn’t say a word. He could tell that I was on edge. He probably presumed it was about the guy coming to check the grounds out. And it partly was, but it also wasn’t.

I hadn’t told him about Ribald and it was eating me up inside. It wasn’t like I was going to run away with him, but I still felt loyalty toward Hel. He was the one person who was always there for me, and we’d never kept secrets. Yet I was holding this one close to my chest, afraid of what he would think.

“Jesus, Zee.” He huffed out a breath and pressed pause on the movie we were watching. “You got ants in your pants or something?”

I grinned, shaking my head at him. He always said the most random things to me, and it never failed to get me out of my own head. I didn’t even think he was aware that he was doing it.

“I just…” I bit down on my bottom lip, trying to figure out how to tell him what I’d done with Ribald. It wasn’t that serious. That was what I kept chanting over and over again in my head. So he’d given me an orgasm, it wasn’t like it was the end of the world. Right?

“You’re worried about the troop?” His lips flattened into a straight line. “You ain’t gotta be worried, Zee.” He placed his claw on top of my hand. “If anything happens, we got each other.”

I stared at him—really stared at him. I didn’t know what I would do without him in my life. If he wasn’t there, it’d be like I was missing half of my body. Which was what made this all the more difficult. If he told me what I was doing with Ribald was wrong, there would be no doubt in my mind that I would cut ties with Ribald. Helios was more important than anyone else, but I didn’t want to have to face that decision.

“You’re right.” I let out a breath, feeling some of the tension escape my body. “I just...I don’t want to leave.” I winced, knowing that I wasn’t telling him what was really on my mind. What I wanted to say was that I met someone—someone who looked at me like I wasn’t a freak. Someone who didn’t care about my differences.

But I couldn’t. I couldn’t physically tell Helios. I couldn’t get the words out.

“It wouldn’t be the end of the world if we had to.” He rested his forearm on his bent knee, not looking away from my face for even a second. I’d always loved how attentive he was when he was talking to me, but right then, I wished he would have glanced away even if only for a second. “And besides, we don’t have to. Elizabeth said everything is good. The guy said he wasn’t shutting us down.

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