"Picking up her marriage license more than likely or meeting with the Mayor?"
"Call Terrance, tell him to meet us at nine at the courthouse and to make sure he calls everyone else," I said taking the coffee he picked up from the floor and handed to me, I smiled and sipped it slowly letting it filter through me. Terrance was a kid who did odd jobs for us when we needed help. He was a good kid, who had been given a bad hand in life. We used him, but we paid him well.
“If this goes south Adam, you need to get Larissa out of Spokane. The Seattle Guild is the best choice to hide from the Fae.”
"Fuck that Syn," Adam said standing up to place his hands angrily on his hips, "If this goes bad, I'm not leaving you. You’re my only family Syn, you and Larissa are all I have."
"It wasn’t a question Adam. You will take Larissa and get her someplace safe. Ryder won't kill me, he might say he will, but he won't. Not while I'm under his contract—he owns me Adam. I need to know you can do this. I need to know you two are safe. You're the only ones that can be used against me and Ryder knows it, he’ll use it," I said grabbing his hand and pulling him down beside me and somehow managing to not spill a drop of coffee in the process.
"Of course," he replied holding my hand and looking at me with love in his emerald eyes, "Syn, we can be used against you—but the same is true for us, we'd be willing to move the moon for you. We need you, so don’t do anything stupid. I also need you to know that we don’t just stay because no one else will join…we stay because we're family. We have each other and that’s more than most people have in this world."
I pulled his hand up to my lips and kissed it before standing up to stretch. "We need to get this show on the road, go call Terrance. Tell him we need that flash mob today."
I wasn’t good with emotions, showing them, feeling them—or expressing them. I wasn’t the type to wear them on my sleeves. He knew how I felt without me having to tell him. This idea had to work, the Demon released me to do this and right now it was the only lead we had.
Thirty Three
Downtown Spokane Washington was packed, someone had leaked that the Light Heir would be making an appearance. We waited at the back of the crowd in hoodies, pulled up to hide us, the rest of the flash mob who would be causing the distraction were dressed the same to stand out from the crowd when the right time came.
We waited, the magic pulsing inside of me ready to explode, we'd spent over an hour of nothing but collecting and depositing magic inside of me. Adam had laughed telling me I'd be lit up enough to power the city. I was hoping it wouldn’t be the case since the plan was to use and dump the magic quickly enough to not pull attention to us.
The entire crowd was hushed, as if this was a monumental event in time…which it wasn’t. I'd never understood the draw of the Fae until I'd melted against Ryder. His blistering heat had drawn me in, like a moth to a flame. He owned my mind without having to turn me FIZ. My thoughts constantly flowed to him and our time in Faery.
"Showtime," Adam said as a sleek black limo pulled up to the steps of the courthouse which was something they would never allow for anyone else.
I turned my head and gave him a reassuring smile as we pushed through the crowd as the flash mob started up. It was the perfect disguise for what we had planned, or would have been until Ryder stepped from the limo and his men stepped from the crowd to create a guard around the princess.
It was now or never, the mob was dancing to Kesha's Your Love is My Drug…as if they couldn’t have picked a more annoying song? I stepped from the group with Larissa and Adam pushing power into me. Ryder's eyes landed on us fleetingly. "Shit dance!" I said starting to move with the group, if not horribly off kilter.
His eyes moved through the crowd and off of us, I almost exploded into laughter at how goofy and bad we danced, but the situation was dire and laughter was something we could do later when we'd finished it. As the group of men parted to allow Arianna to wave at the mob, I stopped moving with the crowd and sent my second sight searching her…nothing happened. I pumped up the magical juice and almost threw up.
"Oh my God," I uttered, I shook my head and stepped back as if I could not put enough distance between me and the horror I was seeing.
"Shit Syn, go dark!" Adam shouted but it was too late, Ryder had seen me.
"Fuck! Split up, blend in!" I shouted, already retreating into the mass of dancers. I couldn’t shake the power pulsing through me. I growled scaring a few of the humans who had joined the tweet about the flash mob Terrance had sent out.