for him to see, but there was something else, too, that hurt he'd left me with when he'd thrown me down into the dark and forgotten all about me.
He looked like he had something to say to me, but I found I didn't want to hear it.
"Out of interest, do all of the guards demand sexual favours in return for protection in here, or is that just Nixon?" I asked, cutting to the point of this little exchange as I tugged my hands back out of his to try and put some distance between us.
"What?" Cain demanded, taking a step closer to me so that we were almost pressed together again.
"It's just that you spout such shit about everyone in orange being worthless scumbags, so it seems a little hypocritical to me if that's common practice amongst the Fae in uniform."
"Tell me what he did to you," Cain snarled and there was a wild kind of fury in his gaze that made my heart race as he looked at me, like he would tear the fucking world down for me and would kill that son of a bitch if I said he'd laid a hand on me. But that didn't make any sense. Cain hated me. He'd more than proven it. So why did I feel like I owned him in that moment?
"Nothing," I breathed. "Though not for lack of trying. He caught me heading downstairs and used his magic to haul me into the gym. Then he forced me to my knees and gave me the choice of going to the hole or sucking his filthy, little cock."
"So why aren't you in the hole?" Cain demanded furiously.
"Because I stole his shock baton and delivered a thousand volts directly to his dick in answer to his proposition," I replied with a twisted smile. I hoped it had fried the thing so thoroughly that it couldn't be healed, but I doubted I'd gotten that lucky. "I'm only telling you because I want to know if you'll make sure he doesn't throw me back down in the dark in retaliation and as my CO, I'm guessing you can make sure he can't."
Cain gripped my jaw between his hands, looking me right in the eye as he spoke. "He won't come near you again. I swear it to you. He won't so much as dare to fucking look at you after I'm through with him."
My lips parted in surprise at the heat in his words and the utter rage in his eyes. I didn't know what to make of it or how I was supposed to feel about it, but my gaze fell to his mouth and for a moment of complete and utter insanity, I almost wanted to-
"The Belorian has returned to its cage. All officers, please complete the count asap so that we can do a casualty assessment and write up the incident report," Warden Pike's voice came over the radio at Cain's hip and he jerked away from me like he'd been burned as he pulled it from his belt.
"Copy that," Cain replied, before shoving the radio away again and quickly healing the bite on my neck.
He hoisted me into his arms without another word and shot back out of the maintenance area before heading up to isolation, passing through the security doors and then speeding all the way back to my cell block. Once we were inside, he ran me up to my cell, barking into the radio to get the door open for me before placing me down inside.
Cain held my gaze as the barred door slid closed between us again and a frown pinched at my brow as I tried to figure out what the hell had just happened between us. He shot away, leaving me to wonder and Roary's voice pulled me out of my thoughts.
"You okay, little pup?" he called from his cell.
"Never better," I agreed, flopping down onto my bed and banishing thoughts of Vampires with dark eyes and deep secrets. I had bigger fish to fry anyway. “One hour, Roar,” I added, talking about how long we would have before the Belorian came hunting.
“Will it be enough?” he asked.
“Let’s hope so.”
B lood was pounding hard and fast through my veins. I could still taste Rosalie on my tongue and feel the magic I’d taken from her fizzling through me. I was high on her. But I was also angry as all hell.
My fangs were still sharp in my mouth as I shot along