Adonis appeared bored, but then again, that’s Adonis. Everything bored him. In fact, he probably bored himself. As we made our way up the line the crowd seemed to get thicker and thicker.
A dark-haired man came up beside me in the other line. Something told me he was off. Not normal. I nudged Adonis. He looked at the man then back at me and shook his head. The man looked at me, straight into my eyes. A cynical smile formed on his lips. He gave me a wink that made me want to take a shower and throw a knife at him all at the same time.
“Relax, Thena. It isn’t a Phantom, just some guy who thinks you’re hot.” Adonis began rubbing my shoulders.
The man looked at Adonis and shook his head before concentrating on the line in front of him.
“It’s impossible that you don’t know how beautiful you are, Thena. Sometimes I wonder if you’re at all aware of the effect you have on the male species.”
“Just the males of the human species,” I joked, trying to lighten the mood.
Adonis’s hands paused on my neck; he lifted my hair, exposing the skin below my ear. He traced the spot with his finger, outlining the side of my face, before leaning down and whispering, “All species, every male, no matter his origin.”
He pulled away. The chill I felt reached all the way down to my toes. I reached up to touch my ear and noticed that it was wet. I whipped around to face Adonis. “Did you just lick me?”
He hovered over me. “I did say all males, didn’t I?”
“Miss? Miss, you can step through now.” The security guard called at me, but I was too stunned to move. To my utter embarrassment, Adonis grabbed me by the shoulders and turned me around, so I could walk in the right direction.
“Thanks,” I mumbled under my breath, as lead-filled legs took me through security. That was the reason I didn’t let Adonis walk ahead of me. In all the time I’ve known him, he has never acted so… well, I didn’t really want to say it, nor did my brain allow me to accept the possibility that he could potentially be attracted to me.
I whipped around with a frown firmly in place, as Seth and Adonis breezed through the security. Seth kissed a girl on the cheek, and I swear, if we didn’t get moving, I was going to pull a knife on him.
“What?” he said, grabbing the duffel bag. I fought the urge to curse as I led the way down to our gate.
By the time we passed the fourth coffee stand, I gave up. Pausing only to signal that I was stopping. I motioned for the guys to wait for me as I stood in line. What I really needed was a good three hours in the practice ring with Seth as my target. I didn’t know why, but his behavior was irritating me, as well as Adonis’s little jaunt with insanity.
Must be the water or something else that had both of these men acting like idiots. The barista asked for my order. Blanking out for the second time that day, I smiled and desperately tried to remember what to order. It wasn’t normal for me to get coffee. I’m more of a chocolate milkshake type of a girl, but I needed something to keep my mind occupied. Drinking something seemed the best way to get rid of my aggravation, plus, caffeine tended to have a calming effect on my nerves.
“She’ll have a black coffee,” Adonis’s smooth voice tickled the hairs on the back of my neck. The barista’s mouth dropped open. But she didn’t make a sound. Instead, hands shaking, she lifted a cup and filled it with coffee.
Irritated, I elbowed him in the stomach. “Did you have to entice her?”
“I did nothing of the sort,” he murmured, taking the coffee from the besotted girl and giving her a hefty tip. “Here’s your coffee. Can we go now?”
Right, because I was the one acting odd and annoying. “Sure.”
Seth was waiting by the straws, judging, or appearing to judge, every single person who walked by and added cream into their coffee. Not wanting to be the object of his pensive glares or judgments, I said, “I’ll pass on the cream.”
“We don’t gain weight,” Seth said, shaking his head at the lady lifting the large container of half and half.
“Whatever,” I mumbled and pushed past them, but not before Seth quickly dumped the half and half into the trash and followed.
“What?” He lifted his hands as if offended. “I’m doing society a favor.”
“How’s that?”
“Easy.” He smirked. “I’m saving them from obesity.”
“Right,” I mumbled and turned away so he wouldn’t see me lift my eyes heavenward in response to his egotism.
I scanned the gate numbers and exhaled with triumph when we reached our destination. Few people were scattered about, which wasn’t at all surprising considering our destination was Fairbanks, Alaska. Who willingly travels to Alaska? Granted, I’ve heard it’s beautiful, but it’s not exactly the Caribbean.