So I nod in silent settlement.

Killian’s eyes flip much more heated, virtually pure black from how darkish they’re. He releases my hair abruptly and turns to depart the room, leaving me blinking after him.

I do not know the place he’s going, however I don’t transfer from the spot the place he left me, nonetheless on my knees on the hardwood ground. He comes again a couple of minutes later, his footsteps quiet on the steps, and as he re-enters the lounge, I understand he’s holding one thing in his hand.

My breath catches as I acknowledge what he has. It’s the cranium masks that the Princes put on generally once they do jobs—the faces etched with skeletal photographs that match those on their helmets. He additionally has my masks from the membership.

“How did you get that?” I ask, though it’s a pointless query. I shouldn’t be shocked anymore by what number of little issues Killian is aware of about me, or by how carefully he observes every thing I do. In fact he is aware of the place I preserve that masks.

Killian doesn’t reply, most likely realizing the query doesn’t want a response. He simply arms it to me with a tough look on his face.

“Put it on.”

My arms tremble with adrenaline and arousal as I do it, settling the masks on my face. It feels extra revealing than it often does. On the membership, it’s meant to cover my identification, to work virtually as a kind of defend.

Right here, it’s simply revealing extra about what Killian and I obtained as much as, giving extra away than it hides.

However when Killian pulls one of many cranium masks on, I couldn’t care much less. Each a part of me is zeroed in on him and the best way he appears to be like in that masks.

I do know he’s nonetheless Killian, nonetheless the person who lives in my home and is Nico’s and Atlas’s finest pal. However with that masks on, the traces are fully blurred. On this second, he’s Phantom, standing in entrance of me, reworked fully into the person from the membership.

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Killian arms the opposite two masks to Nico and Atlas, they usually pull them on with out query. In the event that they assume that is unusual, they don’t present it, most likely too intrigued by the prospect of no matter is about to occur to actually care a method or one other.

There’s one thing concerning the sight of all three of them like this that makes concern and arousal bloom even larger in me. On the membership, issues are extra managed. There are individuals readily available to ensure nothing will get too harmful, and protected phrases in place to guard individuals.

I do consider that Killian would respect my protected phrase if I stated it, however coping with simply one in all him was at all times so much again on the membership. Now there are three of them to cope with, and my coronary heart kilos even more durable in my chest.

I’m shaken out of my ideas by Killian striding nearer to me. He looms over me like he often does, however there’s undoubtedly one thing completely different about it now. He makes use of sturdy fingers to tip my chin up, his eyes boring into mine.

“You bear in mind your protected phrase?” he asks.

I nod, swallowing onerous.

“Good. Use it if you’ll want to.”

There’s a sense of aid that comes from listening to these acquainted phrases. It’s a special location, and there are new gamers, however this is similar recreation we’ve at all times performed with one another.

I nod once more.

His eyes monitor over my face, like he’s making an attempt to memorize it, although I do know he most likely already has.

“That day we went to scope out the drop location,” he says, his voice low. “You touched my arm. It was the primary time you had touched me like that, realizing it was me. Not pondering I used to be your ‘Phantom.’ I virtually couldn’t take it. It felt so fucking good.”

My coronary heart skips a beat at his confession. I do not forget that day—that second—vividly. The way in which he loomed over me, staring down into my eyes… I can’t consider I didn’t understand proper then who he was.

Or possibly a part of me did know and simply wasn’t able to face it.

He appears to be like at me with that very same depth now, sliding one hand up my face so he can cup my cheek. His thumb strokes over my cheekbone for a second, and I let my eyes flutter closed, absorbing this second of unusual gentleness.

He’s by no means performed something fairly like this earlier than, however I suppose that’s as a result of as a lot as issues are the identical… it’s all completely different too, realizing one another the best way we do now.

It lasts for a number of lengthy seconds, the 2 of us staring into one another’s eyes with nothing held again for as soon as.

After which I watch the shift because it occurs. Any gentleness in Killian’s gaze is shuttered, leaving solely pure, molten want. He steps again, placing a ways between us, the elements of his face that I can see going emotionless and clean.

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