Addict (Hunter #2)(102)

He was far too weak. “No. We have to hope that’s a rumor. If I have to I’ll find another way. Gray, you don’t know when your new powers will take over and how they’ll affect you. I think you should sit this one out. Apparently your brother will be in there somewhere. Maybe I can get him to try to kill Winter. I don’t suppose you can tell me who his lost love is?”

“I’ve never met him,” Gray admitted. “When they were together, they lived on the Hell plane. For obvious reasons, I don’t go there. He called his lover his sweet puppy. I know he’s a werewolf.”

I had a couple of people I could ask—if they weren’t currently fighting for their lives.

Up ahead, I could see the building that housed Ether. It housed all of us really. So many of us lived in that building, but I was happy for Quinn’s complete psycho paranoia about keeping business and pleasure apart. It wasn’t easy to get from Ether into the residences. Even if a few got in, it would take time to get through those reinforced doors.

I breathed a sigh of relief as Bellamy stopped inside the parking garage.

“This is where I leave you. I’m going underground for a while.”

He was going to try to wait it out and see who wanted to kill him at the end of our venture. I couldn’t blame the idiot for that.

Gray, Jamie, and I hightailed it for the elevator. I had the code memorized, and we all stood waiting as the elevator started the trek down. We were all wondering the same thing. What would we be walking into? My heart was pounding in my chest at the idea of those elevator doors opening and facing a bloodbath. How many of our people had already died?

And where would Abbas Hiberna be? How the hell was I going to take down a demon who could only be killed by another demon?

“Jamie, I think you should take Kelsey and run,” Gray said quietly.

Jamie’s head turned and one brow arched over his eye. “I don’t think she wants to run. Have you tried making her do something she doesn’t want to do?”

Gray was being Gray, and arguing wasn’t going to help anything. The doors opened and we were assaulted by the sounds of…

Industrial music? I stepped off the elevator. The entrance to Ether was packed, as it was every night. The red carpet and red velvet rope that marked the line to get into the nightclub were the only red I could see. Thumping music could be heard coming from the club, and the line was almost back to the elevators.

“Could Bellamy have been wrong?” I asked.

“Maybe,” Gray allowed as we skipped the line and started for the bouncers. “But my brother wouldn’t lie. Not about this.”

“I actually agree. I had the f*cker in my head for hours. He was worried about the wolf. He’s really in love. Well, it’s a perverted, crazy-creepy-stalker kind of love, but it’s what he considers love. I got a vision of the guy. It was hard to see because mostly I was screaming because being trapped in your own body sucks, but he looked familiar. I think he’s a wolf who works with the king.”

My mind immediately went to Trent and I laughed it off because that big wolf wouldn’t ever look at another man. He liked * too much… A vision of Trent Wilcox naked flooded my head, assaulting my senses. He had the sweetest smile on his face as he leaned over to cover my lips with his.

Oh, god. I’d seen a potential future where he was my lover. That had to be one of those offshoot weird worlds that wouldn’t ever, ever really happen.

I couldn’t remember much, but I remembered he’d been amazingly good in bed. The man liked to use his tongue. And his cock. Oh, I needed to stop thinking about it.

“Kels? You okay?” Jamie asked because I’d stopped in the middle of the lobby.

“Kelsey?” Gray was staring at me like he could see what I was thinking.

I didn’t need anyone to ever know I’d seen that. Ever. For the rest of all time. It was embarrassing. And had me a little bit hot. Which was also embarrassing. I broke into a jog. “I’m good. Let’s find Marcus and the king and talk this out.”

Up ahead, who should I see but the object of my complete and utter denial. Trent stood at the front of the line talking to three of the bouncers from the club. He was altogether too masculine in his T-shirt and jeans and close-cropped hair. He was all muscly and wolfy, and it absolutely, one hundred percent didn’t do anything for me. When he turned and saw me and his face lit up with a kind of crazy, sexy smile, I did not care. My heart rate stayed the exact same, and any deviations were from the run.

Totally.

“Kelsey, hey. You’re back. We didn’t expect you back for another couple of hours. Not that I was…” He stopped. “I was actually. I was kind of counting the time. I was worried about you. I’m glad to see you’re all whole and shit.”

This was the time I would give the big were a mouthy comeback. I would show him my sarcastic side. Instead, I kind of stared because flashes of what I’d seen were coming back to me, and I couldn’t help but think about how good he looked naked.

What the f*ck?

“I believe what she’s trying to say is where is the king?” Gray’s tone was rough and he was looking at me with terrifically judgey eyes.

What had he seen before I took that moment away from him?

“Or maybe Marcus?” Gray continued. “She probably wants to see her boyfriend.”