Wicked Game by Susan Harris

Author:Susan Harris [Harris, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clean Teen Publishing, Inc.

13

“Edison, stand down.”

No, no, no. Anyone but him. I couldn’t bear for him to see me. How had I not heard him come in? I jerked my head around to glare at Atticus, who looked as pissed as I did.

Holding up his hands in surrender, he answered my silent accusation. “I told him not to come. You know better than most, Ryan; when Nico wants to do something, no one but you can stop him.”

Grinding my teeth together, I folded my arms across my chest and frowned, my eyes on the floor in front of me. Edison still hadn’t moved away, and I nudged him with my elbow to get him to move. My muscles felt tense, my skin tight as I continued to glare at the floor in hope that it would open up and swallow me hole.

“No one is going to make Ryan do anything she doesn’t want to do,” Nickolai remarked evenly.

I snorted. This wasn’t the first time he’d tried to get me to do shit I didn’t want to do. An easy chuckle danced through the air and caressed my skin.

“I stand corrected. I promise that this time, no one will force her to do anything she doesn’t want to do.”

I rewarded him with a huff in thanks, but the crown prince was not finished.

“However, unless Ryan gets a clean bill of health, she can’t go with us when we track down Maxim. Right now, she is an injured soldier who has not passed her physical. So, Ryan, weigh up the pros and cons of a simple, routine check-up stopping you from returning to active duty.”

My lips curled into a snarl as I beat my fists on the bed, snapping my head up to glare at Nickolai with as much venom as I could muster. Dressed in a simple black tee and jeans, his blond hair in his eyes, the firm line of his mouth made my heart skip a beat. My eyes clashed with his, and in his eyes I saw a turmoil that was not evident in his calm words. He looked at me with a mixture of heat, of anger, and of pain. There was no pity, shame, or grief there, just an intent to break through the barriers I’d erected to protect myself.

Dragging my attention back to the doctor, I scooted forward and closed my eyes as I opened my mouth. I counted my heartbeats as the scream struggled to get free, and as soon as the doctor declared he had finished, I clamped my lips shut and pressed my palms to my eyes to try and calm myself.

“Ryan is a little underweight, but two or three feedings from a vein should have her back to full strength,” Theodore began, and I listened intently as he continued. “She has some burns on her torso that will heal once she has drunk enough blood, though they may scar. You can feel that her bones were broken repeatedly. Her blood pressure is a little high, which is normal considering what she’s been through.

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