Free Lunar Marked (Sky Brooks Series Book 4) by McKenzie Hunter

angry that I destroyed her little plaything, but I assure you it will occupy her mind for mere moments. Do what you need to—but end it with Quell.”
    It seemed like he was waiting for me to say something, but I didn’t have a response.
    I nibbled on my food—it had lost all flavor. I needed to talk and think about something else. “What are we going to do about Kelly?”
    “Kelly?”
    “I don’t know if Gavin is overreacting. Maybe we should be concerned that she just disappeared. Is it really like her to do something like that?”
    Dismay was something that I’d never seen on Sebastian’s face and it looked odd now. “She’s such a wild card, I don’t know how to predict her behavior. If she left, it is understandable; she went through a lot.”
    Kelly wasn’t really a wild card—I got her. Her emotions and sensitivity made her vulnerable to making decisions that the pack didn’t like, and she seemed to always be at odds with Sebastian. I still didn’t quite understand why a person who was wholly human chose to work for us, but I knew it had a lot to do with her curiosity about us and her adoration of Dr. Jeremy. She was ours to protect, and I felt like we were failing.
    “I just think she would have said something to us, even if it was to tell us to screw off.”
    “You can’t judge her actions by what she would have done before we nearly killed her.”
    Is that a smile? No, my bad. Tilting my head, I waited for it again. She did have that effect on a lot of people, her ebullience something that was appreciated more often than people would admit. Josh referred to her as a “pint-sized menace,” and her tenacity was entertaining, especially when it was directed at someone else, more often Sebastian.
    “If she did leave, she left some things behind that seem odd.” I wasn’t sure if telling him about the purse would make sense to him. It wasn’t that it was a purse she wanted, but because it was given to her by Dr. Jeremy. “And it wouldn’t hurt to look into her leaving, maybe even question Sable,” I offered.
    His brows rose. “Sable?”
    I nodded my head. “She threatened to kill her. She thought that Gavin was spending too much time with her.”
    “Why is this the first time I am hearing about this?”
    “It didn’t seem relevant. I may be way off. Who among us hasn’t been threatened by a vampire? He made Sable promise that she wouldn’t hurt Kelly.”
    “A promise from a vampire not to do any harm, especially Sable, means nothing. He should have told me this,” he snarled. Sebastian was worse than Ethan when it came to the need to have all information.
    He pulled out his phone and pressed a number. “Demetrius, I need to speak with Sable,” he said in a low voice into the speaker. Like most things it had too much of a command to it, and I knew it wouldn’t be well received by Demetrius.
    I could imagine the insolence on Demetrius’s face. His silence stretched from seconds to close to a minute. It was so long that I thought he’d hung up. That wasn’t below something he would do if he felt affronted by Sebastian. It wasn’t until I heard the noise on the other end that I knew he was still considering the request for longer than he had to just to annoy Sebastian.
    He finally spoke, his voice crisp and urbane, with an accent that I still hadn’t placed over the years. “Very well, but I will need to speak with Skylar as well. She has been quite busy disrupting things in our Seethe and it needs to be addressed.”
    Dammit.
    Sebastian glanced in my direction, considered it for a fraction of the time Demetrius had, and finally agreed.

    T here were many things I would have preferred to a meeting between Sebastian and Demetrius, two men who hated each other and make no attempt to hide it. Both had immense power and the type of will that could stop a truck, which they didn’t mind asserting. The venomous glares, subtle threats, and displays of impudence ever present whenever they