Delinquents Turned Fugitives - Ann Denton Page 0,144

up anywhere. Possess anyone,” I voiced the fear that I hadn’t told the guys. That with Claude still out there, we could be vulnerable.

Callum’s sharp eyes didn’t miss the tick in my jaw. “I’ll keep an eye out while you’re gone.”

“If anything goes wrong,” I took a step closer. “Just call me and I’ll—”

“If anything goes wrong, I’ll take care of it.” His eyes flashed. “I can see how you’re used to being in charge. I can’t even say you’re bad at it, though I want to. But not of me. He leaned closer and let his fangs extend a little. “Never of me.”

I fought the shiver that traced its way down my spine, telling my body that Callum wasn’t really a threat. He wasn’t really interested in hurting me. He just wanted to be in control.

After years locked in an underground lab, the subject of who knew how many experiments, I couldn’t blame him.

I gave a sharp nod, but narrowed my eyes.

“You’ll still call me.”

“No.”

“If you won’t, Matthew will,” I raised my brows and pushed past him with a haughty lift to my chin and a sway to my hips.

Behind me, Callum laughed and muttered. “Knew I liked you from the start, you cheeky shit.”

The next day we loaded up on Gray’s plane and the mood was full of playful excitement. Malcolm got us all involved in a ridiculous game of Magical Charadionary, which was like a combination of charades and spell writing. We had to act get the others to decipher entire sentences but alternate between acting out words and writing spells that then created an image that floated in midair. It was a children’s game, but Malcolm and Zavier had corrupted it so that we had to work with sentences like: “I had to wash my butt plug,” or “Your cum looks like cottage cheese.”

My ribs hurt from laughter before we’d even finished the first round.

When it was Andros’ turn to act, he stood, or tried to stand. He was too tall for the plane and had to duck. As soon as he started moving, Zavier started guessing: “Hunchback!” “Quasimoto!” “Gru!”

Andros had merely narrowed his eyes and bided his time. On Zavier’s next turn, every time he tried to start writing a spell, Andros would rewind him, until the rest of us were howling in laughter and Zavier’s timer was up. Confusion had turned into fury and he’d launched himself at his cousin, starting a wrestling match that had only ended when Gray’s pilot came onto the intercom and asked if we’d like to land in the ocean instead of on an island.

Z had taken the seat next to me, nursing a busted lip and a grin. Despite the fight he was in good spirits, because that was just him. He winked at me and said, “You like that fight huh?”

“Oh, so hot,” I deadpanned. “Watching you lose was just—” I fanned myself. “Whew!”

All the other guys chuckled and Zavier joined them, knowing he was more of the verbal sparring type. But his next word punch blindsided me. “Someday, you’re gonna have sex with all of us at once,” Zavier predicted, licking a drop of blood from his lips. “I can’t wait.”

Instantly, the mood on the plane changed. It was like someone had flipped a switch.

Humor turned to heat as every eye in the plane whipped over to stare at me. My cheeks grew as red as a fire pit. “Never.”

“Oooh, gentlemen, I feel like that was a challenge,” Zavier quipped, raising his hands up in the air like this was some WWE match and he was pumping up the crowd.

That little fucking trouble maker. If I didn’t love him so damn much, I would have wrung his neck. As it was, I took my travel pillow from around my neck and launched it at him. “No, it’s not a challenge. It’s a fact.”

Andros stared steadily at me from the seat he’d taken directly across from mine. When he caught my eye, he leaned forward, resting his arms on his knees so that his biceps bulged. He was so huge that he took up nearly all of the space between us. His biceps were close enough to touch. Was he … trying to tempt me in front of the others?

My furious gaze flew to his, about to berate him too, but the hungry look in his eyes made the words die in my throat. I had to swallow hard and sit back in my seat to get