“You?” My jaw fell open in surprise.
“Why not?”
I grinned. “Is that a joke?”
“Do I look like I’m fucking joking?” he asked dryly.
“No,” I answered at the same time as Magni leaned closer and made a threat.
“You’d better watch her closely, brother. If I find that councilwoman alone, Iwilldo what it takes to make her talk.”
Smack!The sound of Khan’s fist hitting Magni’s cheek sounded loud, and I immediately stepped in to get between them.
“Go, Magni, just go,” I said and pushed the large man back. Magni’s hand was on his cheek, his eyes flashing with anger, and I sympathized with him. I couldn’t even imagine how I would feel if Christina had left me without a goodbye. Since Laura ran away, Magni had become a laughingstock, and jokes were being told about how he was so bad in bed that his wife would rather be with a Momsi boy than him.
“Don’t hit back – just go,” I insisted, knowing full well that if I unleashed Magni on Khan it would be bloody. Khan was a great fighter, but Magni was bigger, stronger, and pumped with lethal anger that was just waiting for a target.
“Think, Magni, fucking think,” I shouted and desperately held on to him.
Angrily, he shook his arm free from my strong grip and pointed to Khan. “You’re lucky there’s an audience, but know this; if you ever fucking hit me again,” he snarled at Khan, who scowled back at him, “I will hit back so hard you’ll need dental implants.”
“You fucking deserved it. If I had threatened Laura you would have done the same thing. So don’t think for one second that you get to threaten a female undermyprotection.”
Both men were scowling at each other.
“You’ve done enough damage kidnapping the priestess,” Khan reprimanded him.
Magni growled in frustration but left us without responding; and sure enough, it took Khan only a few seconds to regain his calm presence.
“So,” he said, brushed off invisible dust from his leather shirt, and shot a glance toward the women who were now looking over to see what was going on. I raised a hand and waved to signal everything was fine.
“You finally claimed your right as a husband.”
I stiffened. “What do you mean?”
“You fucked her,” Khan said without shame. “Too bad you didn’t do it in the daylight so I could have seen more clearly.”
My jaws tightened. “You have no right to spy on us.”
He just shrugged. “You promised her something; what was it?”
My heart started beating faster. “What?”
“You were whispering so I couldn’t hear you, but it sounded like she wanted something from you and you agreed if she had sex with you.”
“Oh, right.” My brain was running in circles. I had been so sure we had whispered too low for him to hear, but there were only two scenarios. Either he knew what we had spoken about and was waiting to see if I would admit it freely, or he really didn’t know the details.
If he knew I was lying to him, I would be in deep trouble.
“Christina wanted to learn how to fly my hybrid,” I said – which was true in a way.
“Really?”
“Yeah, they only have automated drones and she’s fascinated that I fly mine manually.”
He wrinkled his nose and looked in Christina’s direction. “And she was willing to sleep with you to fly your machine?”
“I think it was just an excuse. She’s been ready for a while.”
