Page 9 of Alluring Darkness
A sharp glint flickers in his eyes. For a moment, we just stand there, watching each other. The other students have all moved past, which means that we’re the only ones left on the edge of the parking lot now.
Then Eli jerks his chin. “Get in the car.”
Following his gaze, I notice with no small amount of smugness that there are onlythreeRange Rovers parked a short distance behind him now. I slide my gaze back to him.
“No,” I reply simply.
He narrows his eyes, and a lethal note creeps into his voice as he says, “It wasn’t a request.”
“Well, it sure as hell couldn’t have been an order, so then I don’t know what it was.”
“You can either get into the car willingly… or I can make you.”
I snort. “You and what army?”
Somewhere behind me on the left, the front doors are opened. Eli shifts his gaze to them, and a vicious smirk curls his lips.
Then he slides his gaze back to me. “This army.”
A surge sweeps through me as three guys with brown eyes and the same dangerous expressions on their faces show up. They take up position on my other sides, boxing me in completely. I flick an assessing glance over them.
The one on my right has straight black hair, just like Eli, and he’s twirling a knife in his hand with expert movements. There’s a sadistic gleam in his eyes that sends an uncharacteristic shiver down my spine.
Both the guy on my left and the one behind me have dark brown hair that curls a little. The man behind me looks composed and neat, while the one on the left, the youngest looking, has that messy and yet effortless just-rolled-out-of-bed look.
I glance over their bodies. They’re all built similarly to Eli. Tall, toned, and with an impressive array of lethal muscles.
Crap. Eli brought all of his brothers to confront me as well? This was not quite the way I had imagined things were going to play out. But oh well. Attack is the best defense.
Raising my eyebrows, I let out a mocking laugh while spinning my hand in the air to indicate all of them. “Did you all practice this little routine, or what?”
A very brief hint of surprise flickers in Eli’s eyes before he hides it again. He had clearly expected me to be afraid. Not to mock them.
“This her?” Just-rolled-out-of-bed guy asks.
Eli keeps his eyes on me as he replies, “Yes.”
“Damn. She’s kind of hot.”
“Jace,” Eli says, a warning note to his voice.
Jace raises his hands in mock surrender before drawing a hand through his messy curls and shrugging. “Just saying.”
“Kaden,” Eli says, sliding his gaze to the neat-looking guy with straight black hair. “Get her in the car.” Then he turns to the composed curly-haired one behind me. “Rico. Keys.”
Metallic clinking fills the silence as Rico tosses his car keys to Eli. Catching them in one hand, he turns around and starts towards the Range Rovers.
Kaden’s dark eyes are locked on me as he spins his knife one last time before he slides it back into his thigh holster. I glance down at it. There are several more blades there.
With my eyebrows raised, I let out a disbelieving laugh as he starts advancing on me. “If you’re planning to force me into a car, you really shouldn’t have put that knife away.”
Eli just keeps walking towards the car, but his three brothers laugh mockingly.
“Ballsy,” Jace comments while dragging an assessing look up and down my body. “I’ll give her that.”
“You—”
He lunges. I whip around to face him and raise my arms to defend myself. But it was just a trap. The moment my back is turned, Kaden closes the distance between us and grabs me from behind. With one hand around my throat, he uses his other to force my arm up my back.