“What? Alone? Why? My brother knows?”
Why so many questions? I’m pretty sure the “Brother” he’s thinking about is Damian, and I can’t help but hesitate a second, biting my lip. Will he report me? He understands my reaction and shakes his head.
“You can’t! He is going to get really mad!”
This time it’s my turn to make a “stay quiet” gesture. We can still hear Bobo snoring, but I’m pretty sure he will wake up if he hears something suspicious, and I’m running out of time.
“What about you?” I ask.
He shrugs and shows his backpack.
“Skipping school. Nath’s going to beat the shit out of me if he grabs me.”
“Okay. I won’t tell if you don’t tell.” I suggest.
Great, now I am bargaining with a school-skipping teenager.
“No! Damian will kill me!”
It looks like he is much more worried about his older brother’s reaction than Nathaniel’s. I thought I was lucky that he chose today to try and sneak here, but now turns out he is focused on making me stay! As if dodging Bobo wasn’t complicated enough!
“Please!” I insist. “I only need a couple of hours, Tonia is away, and Bobo is sleeping like a baby!”
His eyes light up suddenly, and he makes a sneaky grin.
“Right! The meeting! There was a meeting with the Gold Moon Clan, earlier this morning, so they are all at the Office! I forgot about that stupid thing.”
A meeting with the Gold Moon? Why would they meet? Vincent mentioned once that the Blood Moon Clan was looking for more allies, but... Is that happening at their office?The Black Corporation has its headquarters in a building, from what I heard... is that where they are now? My wolf instantly asks if we can go meet our mate, but before I can even think about it, I feel my wrist grabbed, and Liam pulls me out of the apartment.
I’m a bit shocked, but before I can say anything, he carefully closes the door behind us.
“How did you get in, by the way?” I ask.
“It’s an eight digits code: 20071203. I just found it by chance after trying a few times. I’ve seen my brother use that one before.”
How funny, it’s the date of my seventh birthday. I wonder if something happened to Damian that day. I follow Liam to the elevator, as I don’t remember coming to the building. While the elevator gets down, I realize what I just did. I escaped the room! I feel bad for Bobo, but hopefully, I will be back before he even wakes up.
Next to me, Liam seems a lot less nervous now that he knows his brothers are busy. He looks more like Damian than Nathaniel. The youngest of the three has messy dark brown hair, not as black as his brother, but his eyes are almost the same as Damian, a dark grey. He is a bit smaller and thinner, though. We are probably the same age if he is in high school now.
“What?” He asks suddenly, noticing that I was staring.
“Sorry, but it’s kind of the first time we see each other properly, so...”
He rolls his eyes.
“Oh, I got plenty of time to look at you when you were in the hospital. But you look better now, not like a skeleton.”
He is as straight-forward as I remember... I wonder why his brothers made him look after me, too, when I washospitalized since he doesn’t look very responsible. Maybe he was just being watched at the same time.
We finally get downstairs, and I can’t help but take a deep breath when we exit the building. Free at last! It may only be a couple of hours before I go back to my golden cage, though.
“Okay, what now, princess? Where do you want to go?”
“You’re going to follow me?” I ask, surprised.
“Hell yeah. I don’t want my ass kicked when we get back just because you stupidly tripped and hurt yourself or something. I’m sticking with you, so tell me where it is we are going.”
“We’re going east, then.”
