Page 99 of Beauty At Stake
Smirking, Kill looked at me. “You all right, Twilight?”
“You're a fucking idiot, Blair. I told you to let go. Now, we're both captured.”
“I'd rather be imprisoned with you than free without you.”
“Sweet but stupid.”
“Yup, that's me.”
My expression softened as I shook my head. “Kill, you could have helped me more if you had let go.”
Killian's stare went serious and tender. “Babe, I don't have it in me to let go of you.”
I let out a soft breath and just stared at him.
Then Kill looked at Rue and said, “You hear that?That'sromantic. Not this bullshit you're pulling.”
I chuckled.
Rue started for Killian.
Killian got to his feet. “Come on, motherfucker. Even chained and drained, I can still beat your furry ass. By the time I'm done with you, you'll look like road kill.”
“Rue.” Sarai took his hand and pulled him back.
That's when I noticed that one wall of the room was formed of bars—iron bars. Sarai led Rue through a doorway in the bars, then shut the door.
Rue locked the cell door and grinned at Killian. “Go ahead and fuck your wife if you want. You don't have much time left. Don't worry, we didn't put any cameras in your cage. We have no interest in watching you and no worries about you escaping. Not while you're like that.”
“Dude, you're just proving my point. I'm a witty romantic while you're a fucking troglodyte.”
“A what?”
“I rest my case.” Killian sat down beside me and took my hand. “How the fuck did that idiot become a vex?”
“I have no idea,” I drawled. “You'd think they'd have a written test or something.”
“Go ahead and crack your jokes,” Rue said. “I'll be laughing as you die.” He walked away with his lover.
Kill and I looked at each other.
“Well, he told us,” Kill said.
“He sure did.”
“Did you get all that?” Kill asked, and I knew he wasn't talking to me.
“We got it,” Daxon said. “You two alone now?”
“Yeah,” I said. “Just me and Mr. Romance.”
Daxon snorted. “You mean Mr. Romantic Idiot?”
“Well, look who wasn't paying attention,” Kill drawled. “I said I was a witty romantic.”
“Anyway,” I went on before we got caught up in Killian's comedy routine. “Star can't find me through the hakhil, but—”
“What did you say?” Star's voice cut me off. “How the fuck did she cast a hakhil?”
