bother to hide my sneer at the pervertito as Hastings started checking Gustard's pockets.
"Did you do it?" I breathed, reaching out to run my fingers through Roary's luscious hair and he groaned as he leaned into the contact.
"Of course I fucking did it," he said cockily, like it was an insult for me to even ask.
"Why the fuck are you carrying this around?" Hastings asked loudly, tossing Nixon a shiny blue butt plug with a look of disgust. Nixon raised an eyebrow and then pocketed it, making me shudder as I got the feeling he planned on keeping it.
"That's not mine!" Gustard roared and Roary chuckled.
"It's surprisingly easy to smuggle sex toys in," Roary explained, snorting a laugh.
"Is it now?" I asked, tussling his hair in a mixture of annoyance and playfulness as I wondered when he'd first found that out.
"Well, only the boring, non-magical variety, but yeah. I asked and Leon delivered."
The next thing to appear from Gustard's pockets was a pair of nipple clamps followed by a pair of lacy panties.
"Hey," I hissed, dropping my mouth down to Roary's ear to make sure we weren't overheard. "If you could have gotten me nice panties then why the hell have I been wearing these fugly ass-bags for months?"
"You wanted me to smuggle you in nice panties?" he asked, drawing his gaze from the show and giving me a look that made me blush as his golden eyes seemed to burn like molten metal.
"Well, duh," I replied, refusing to back down. "And bras. The things they provide here should be illegal. In fact, maybe they are and they're serving a sentence down here too."
"They don't look that bad on you," he tsked and my blush deepened.
"Well...you haven't seen me in something red and transparent, so you have nothing to compare it to," I said and he growled again, the noise making everything south of the border clench deliciously. Shit, I was hopeless for this man.
Luckily we were saved from continuing that conversation by Hastings finally finding a shank in Gustard's pocket which was enough to see our plan come together.
"Come on Four-Oh-Six, you're going to the hole," Hastings snarled and Gustard started cursing as he was hauled towards the door.
His eyes fell on me and I couldn't help but smirk like a smug bastarda, loving the fury in his gaze as he realised exactly who had just set him up.
"I need to make a call!" he bellowed but Hastings ignored him and I knew there was no chance of that.
I started laughing, tipping my head back and howling with excitement, setting off a chain reaction from my pack which got my blood pumping.
To my surprise, Ethan tipped his head back and howled too, his pack joining in right after and our eyes meeting across the crowded room in solidarity for a moment.
"I'm gonna go and check on Claud, make sure there's no whispers of anything going on that we need to know about," Roary said, pushing to his feet and I pouted in disappointment.
"Are you ditching me, Roar?"
"Never," he disagreed, but he walked out on me anyway.
I huffed to myself as I finished off my orange, wondering what I should do with myself for the next hour before we had to head to the Magic Compound. We'd all agreed to avoid the library today because we didn't want to risk drawing attention to it now that we were ready to move. We weren't going to take any chances today. Everything had to go by the book.
As I sat procrastinating over my last orange segment, Ethan got up from his table and met my gaze as he left his pack behind and started walking towards the door. I popped the slice of orange into my mouth and frowned after him as I chewed.
The mate bond had been itching at me incessantly again the last few days and the heat in his eyes made it clear that he had been suffering with it too. I'd been dreaming of him all night and I was aching to just get up and run to him, scream at the world to go fuck themselves and kiss him until I was breathless.
Of course, I wasn't going to do that, so I just stole another orange from a Fae who was walking past me with his tray of food and then glared at him when he tried to protest.
He backed off quick enough and I peeled my prize with a smug little smile as I started chomping