Aiden piped in immediately after.
‘Head by head,’ he said through the bond, already turning it into a plan. ‘I mark the opening. Samael bites first. Ferus follows in the same wound and drives the venom deeper.’
Keres made a sound that was not quite a growl and not quite a laugh.
‘You want me to wait while you risk your life? Pluto is not at his best little brother’
‘I want you alive,’ Aiden snapped.’ I want all of us to have our happily ever after.’
That shut him up.
For approximately half a second.
‘Bossy.’
‘Still right’
Even now.
Even f*****g now.
My chest hurt with it.
Scilla surged, dragging herself farther onto the shore, and all six heads shifted toward us again. Toward Eden’s fading gold. Toward my body, apparently still the night’s most popular disaster magnet.
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