BRYN
“Leave us!” the Scorpion said and Len and Amira jumped from their places and hurried out. Yes. No one dared to disobey him.
I stood there, shoeless and in just one stocking, my hair messy, which wasn’t the professional look I was aiming for. He didn’t say anything and never had that bird looked so menacing. Filin was a chatterbox, but the moment Zion possessed his body, everything changed.
“Explain to me,” the dead-cold voice sounded, “what that was just now?!”
I sighed heavily, pushing a lock of my hair behind my ear.
“Change when you speak to me!” he said and I obeyed, returning to my own looks. Zion never liked it when I talked to him as someone else.
“What was that right now?” he asked me again calmly, but I did not fool myself into believing that I was safe.
“What do you m
