combination—liked his guard to be cut from the same cloth. Truth be told, I had no fucking idea what this entire situation was even about. We’d been here for a month, and in that time I hadn’t seen him once.
Despite the fact we were with his main protection detail, he seemed to be alternating between hiding out in his office and giving speeches through their television and media networks.
Justice and I had discussed our suspicions about his lack of action—she in particular was convinced that he was watching us and biding his time. Justice was a bit of a conspiracy theorist, citing a bunch of nefarious schemes that the president was involved in.
She might be right, but considering the low-level threat humans were to supes, I wasn’t really worried. Mainly I was bored and pissed off about any of us having to be here. Thankfully we just had to get through the next two months.
Two more months and I’d be back in Stratford with my brothers and the rest of my family, and this would be nothing more than a bad dream.
My chest rumbled. No way would my dragon last that long without stretching his wings. We might be fairly new company to each other, but he had the same restless streak in his soul as me.
“You need to get outside,” Justice noted, concern tingeing her tone.
I pushed aside my internal thought processing to focus on her. “What?”
“Nature,” she shot back. “You’re always like this when you spend extended time without connecting to the earth. You need to go out…”
I raised my eyebrows in an attempt to hide the fact that this actually shocked me. How had she noticed an innate part of my personality like that? My quirks, the essence of my soul that made me different to others, was not a part of me that I shared with many. Justice didn’t grow up in my life, like Braxton, Maximus, Tyson, and Jessa. She didn’t experience it from when I was younger and had been more open.
And yet she still saw.
Maybe that was why she pissed me off. She saw too much.
“You overstep,” I warned her, part of me wondering where the fuck my easygoing nature had gone. For weeks now I’d been a growly, grouchy bastard, and for once I lacked the control to correct it.
Like I’d challenged her, she over-fucking-stepped right up into my face. Justice was tall for a chick, but her eyes still only leveled out on my chin. “I’m going to give you one chance to fix your fucking attitude,” she said, and I could feel her power swirling across my skin. “Or I’m going to fix it for you.”
Bryce snorted, and when she whipped her head around to glare at him, he spent a lot of time examining a very white, very ordinary section of wall.
“We’re due a trip home,” Justice bit out as she turned back to me. “I think we should take it, because you need … something.”
“Yes, we are,” I agreed, almost amused now by her show of attitude. This chick fucked with my emotions like nothing I’d ever experienced. “At this stage though, I figure we just ride out the next two months and get it over with. Stratford is running fine with my brothers in charge.”
Her jaw ticced, face still and expressionless. I didn’t move as she leaned in even closer to me, her voice so low that not even Bryce would hear her. “He’s not going to easily let us leave. I think we should try to take a trip home to test the waters.”
Our eyes locked. I was close enough to see every pigment in her piercing ruby eyes. When I’d first met her, she’d had eyes of emerald green, so bright it almost hurt to look at them. Since her ascension to her jeweled princess status, though, they’d changed. Now pink blended to violet—the oddest of colors and yet it suited the dark tones of her skin so well.
One undeniable truth about Justice: she was without a doubt the most uniquely stunning woman I had ever seen. About knocked me on my ass the first time we locked eyes.
Then she opened her mouth and … well, that was another story.
“What evidence do you have that the president won’t let us leave? He’s basically ignored us up to this point.” I pressed closer, inhaling her lavender scent. My body reacted because it always did around this fey, but I never let it go further.