Page 7 of After Midnight (Skye Druids #7)

Chapter Five

Sabryn could only watch as Kurt pitched forward and crashed into the coffee table as he passed out. Everyone else sprang into action, checking to make sure he was unharmed as they moved him to the sofa. She remained sitting.

“ Fek me,” Finn murmured as he straightened. “ He passed smooth out.”

Carlyle ran a hand through his hair. “ He said he hasn’t slept in four days.”

“ I can’t believe he stayed awake for as long as he did and drove here,” Bronwyn replied.

Song looked around the room. “ Now what?”

That’s when five pairs of eyes turned to her. Sabryn slowly got to her feet. “ We wait for him to wake, I suppose.”

Elias stepped in front of her when she started out of the library. “ He’s the Brit from DC .”

“ Is there a question in there somewhere?” Sabryn asked.

Carlyle came to stand beside Elias . “ We’re not asking for details.”

“ Good ,” she said before he could say more. “ Because you’re not getting them.”

Finn joined them. “ We jus?—”

“ What ?” Sabryn interrupted. “ How long have you three known who he was?”

All three jerked back as if struck.

“ Since he arrived,” Elias replied.

Finn gaped at her. “ You think we’d keep something like that from you?”

“ You were alone with him.” Sabryn looked at each of them, then shrugged. “ What else was I supposed to think?”

Carlyle calmly said, “ You’re supposed to trust us. We’re family.”

“ Then why didn’t anyone come get me when he arrived?” Sabryn asked.

Bronwyn moved between them. “ All right. Tempers are running hot this morning. I think we all need to take a breather and calm down.”

“ I doona know,” Elias answered Sabryn . “ It wasna done out of malice, no matter what you might think. Something told me to protect you.”

Sabryn smiled through her watery gaze and glanced at the ceiling. “ Would you have told me?”

“ Of course,” Finn stated vehemently.

Carlyle nodded once, his turquoise eyes serious. “ Without hesitation.”

Sabryn wanted to believe them. She had no reason not to believe the boys. They had battled together, laughed together, argued together, and created a family between them. They had always had each other’s backs. She had never questioned them—not until Kurt arrived.

“ You’re the glue that binds us,” Finn told her.

Sabryn swallowed past the lump of emotion in her throat.

Her irritation and ire had nothing to do with the boys and everything to do with learning Saber’s true identity.

She dashed away a stray tear and looked at her five family members.

“ I’m sorry. I shouldn’t take this out on you. I know you wouldn’t leave me out.”

“ Don’t think twice about it,” Carlyle told her.

Elias pulled her and Bronwyn into his arms, and then Song , Carlyle , and Finn joined the group hug.

“ I’ll be happy to toss him out,” Finn offered.

Sabryn laughed with the others, breaking the tension.

“ He’s here,” Parker said, standing outside bathed in the morning sunshine, admiring how the light lit upon the perfectly still loch.

The brunette with the large breasts and tight arse leaned her front against the Jaguar . “ How can you be sure?”

The first set of Edinburgh Druids had died quickly. Parker had expected the same from these, which is why he hadn’t bothered to learn their names. He’d named them for their attributes. This one was Boobs .

“ I know my brother. He’ll move Heaven itself for Sabryn ,” Parker replied.

“ Assuming she’s here.”

“ Oh , she’s here.”

Boobs flipped around, thrusting out her ample bosom covered in the tight shirt and drawing his gaze.

She dropped her head back, letting her straight, dark hair puddle on the car.

He imagined grasping a handful of it and holding her head back as he thrust inside her until she begged him to let her cum.

“ If Kurt cares for her so much, why isn’t he with her?” she asked.

“ That’s a long story. The short version is, he can’t.” Parker pulled his gaze from Boobs and refocused on the loch. “ Not without repercussions.”

“ From who?”

“ It’s from whom,” he corrected.

Boobs rolled her hazel eyes. “ From whom ?”

“ Me .”

She smiled and straightened, closing the distance between them with a sultry walk. She didn’t stop until her body touched his. “ You wield a lot of power.”

“ You like that, do you?” he asked with a sly smile. Power turned everyone on.

“ Who doesn’t?” she asked seductively, pressing her breasts against him.

Parker kept his hands in his pockets instead of cupping those delectable orbs that he knew would spill out of his hands.

Damn George for sending such a tasty morsel.

It had been two weeks since Parker had last bedded someone, and he was horny.

He could take what Boobs offered, and he would.

Once he saw to what he needed to do. For now, he couldn’t take his eyes off the prize. Not when he was so close.

A soft hand came to rest on his chest, her long nails skimming down his shirt. “ I’d like to go back with you to London .”

He snorted, thinking she was jesting. He quirked a brow when he glanced at her and spotted her serious expression. “ Is that so?”

“ It is. Why does that seem so farfetched?”

“ The truce between our two groups is tenuous at best. George wouldn’t appreciate me luring one of her Druids away.”

“ George has done a decent job of amassing all the fractured groups in the city, but she’s not doing anything with us.” Boobs leaned harder against him and met his gaze. She bit her lower lip provocatively. “ London has power. That’s who I want to be with.”

Parker’s gaze lowered to her mouth, and he imagined those lips wrapped around his cock. He bit back a groan as the image made him throb with need. “ You would choose London over Edinburgh ?”

“ It’s an easy choice. You don’t see Edinburgh welcoming Druids from outside the city with open arms now, do you? London wants Druids . And I have something to offer them—and you.”

Fuck . She was beautiful and willing and would be a nice way to spend a few hours. He pulled his gaze away from her, all the while trying to ignore the weight of her breasts on his arm. “ I think you might be right.”

“ I can be an asset. To you,” she whispered huskily in his ear.

Parker’s eyes closed as his balls tightened. He started reaching for her when, through the haze of lust, he recalled his orders. He shook off her spell. “ We’ll talk about it once I have my brother.”

Boobs straightened, but her hand lingered on his chest before dropping to her side. “ What do you think London will do to him?”

“ They’d likely kill him for working with the Skye Druids , but London didn’t send me after him.”

“ Then who did?”

“ Diana .”

A small frown puckered Boob’s brow. “ Who’s Diana ?”

“ Our mother.”

“ Mummy sent you after him? She has you . Why would she want a son who chose another group over his family?”

Finally , someone got it. Parker kept those words to himself. He would never say them aloud. To anyone. “ Kurt went against her, and he has to pay the price.”

“ Your mum doesn’t fuck around, does she?”

“ Not in the least.”

Boobs twisted her lips and moved to stand in front of him. She smoothed her hands down his chest before looking at him through her lashes. “ Sounds as if she prefers your brother to you.”

He tensed, mainly because it wasn’t just how he felt—it was the truth. No matter what he did, he could never live up to perfect Kurt . Not even after he’d abandoned their family for his little group of saviors. And in that time, Diana hadn’t so much as said Kurt’s name.

Parker had begun to believe she had finally let his brother go and accepted him as her heir—he wanted it. Kurt didn’t. But just when he was settling into that role, Diana gave him orders to track Kurt down. She even gave him a location as if she had always known where her eldest was.

“ He’s firstborn,” Parker said tightly.

“ He matters only if he’s alive,” Boobs replied, her fingers trailing up to his shoulders.

Parker was all too familiar with that particular fantasy. He had killed his brother a million different ways in his head, but dreaming about it and getting away with it when answering to Diana were two different things.

He looked around the landscape. Though he was on Skye , where any number of things could be the cause of his brother’s death. Kurt wouldn’t go easily, though.

Boobs pressed herself against him again, her voice husky as she whispered, “ So , you have thought about it. You have the power. You’re handing that over to him as long as you do Diana’s bidding. Keep it. It’s what those with power do.”

It’s exactly what his mother would do. She’d probably done it hundreds of times already.

Boobs grinned and threaded her fingers into his hair, pulling his head down to her lips. “ And I can’t imagine you sharing anything.”

He grabbed a handful of her hair and yanked her head back. He said nothing, just stared down at her before kissing her.