After I rinsed my mouth out with her mouthwash, I followed her. When I stepped back into the room and she was already in bed.
“Mel, we don’t go to bed angry with each other,” I reminded her as I moved over to my side of the bed.
She didn’t reply.
“Fine. I’ll wait,” I said. I fluffed the pillow behind me and sat up against the headboard.
Again, she said nothing and turned off the lights. Now the only source of light was the grayish-blue moonlight streaming in from the window.
This was ridiculous. “I took him today because he was ready. He wasn’t in danger, nor would I—”
I froze when I felt the heat in my neck. Reaching up, I touched my skin as a drop of sweat rolled down my face.
She didn’t.
“Ahh…” I hissed at the burning. When I looked at her, she was staring right at me, resting her head on her hand with evil smile playing on her lips.
“You should know better than to cross me by now, sweetheart.”
“You…fuck…in…bitch…Ahh.”
THREE
“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more…secure.”
~ Jim Butcher
DECLAN
“You did what?”
She turned back to me as she casually said, “Melody asked me to poison Liam’s mouthwash before you all came home. What did he do?”
My mouth dropped open and for some reason, my mind could not process this. Wait. “You help Melody poison my brother and ask what he did wrong?”
“You and I both know Melody loves Liam more than she loves anything in this world. She’s torturing him a little bit…because again he must have fucked up. So what did he do?” She came over to me and pushed me onto the edge of the bed as she pulled off my tie. I held onto her waist.
She was right. But still. “She’s never been the poisoning type. I expected her to take a bat to his ribs or something.”
“Yes, because that’s more civil.” She giggled as she unbuttoned my shirt. I loved it when she giggled; her nosed bunched up and her brown eyes sparkled. Pulling her closer to me, I rolled us both over onto the bed.
“I missed you tonight. Everyone had their wives beside them and meanwhile, I was surrounded by bitch ass cops and Ethan, who is so much like Liam, it’s kind of scary,” I said and she reached up to brush my hair.
“Someone has to hold the fort down. And besides, you survived, it didn’t you?”
I rolled my eyes. “You’re supposed to say you missed me too, Cora.”
“Am I? Honestly, I was so busy with everyone I—”
Grabbing her wrist, I rolled on top of her and pinned her hands down. Her dark brown hair fell in waves cropped at her shoulders. Gravity pushed her breasts up higher, and I kissed the top of them both.
“Declan—”
“Say you missed me,” I said above her.
“Make me, baby.”
“Gladly—” We both paused when we heard the baby monitor go off. “Damn it.”