49. Kiera
KIERA
The question ripped through the room like a bullet, leaving the air buzzing in its wake. But while my two saviors tensed on either side of me, horrified by the implication, Dom just sighed like this was a riddle she’d been turning over for years.
“I’m not sure.” She drummed her fingers against the island.
“But it would be odd, wouldn’t it? Both of our parents, major shareholders in Zeus, mysteriously dying by suicide within a few years of one another?
All the while my father’s illicit underground trafficking ring grows with its two most likely challengers gone? ”
My throat tightened. “And Gabe… was just with me to get my shares? Did Isaac set it all up?”
The tension was palpable as the weight of her response settled over the room. But after a long moment, Dom sighed. “To be honest, I don’t know the answer, Kiera. But I know how we can find out.”
I glanced to Spencer and Leo, but they seemed just as clueless as I was about what the fuck she was getting at.
Pushing off the counter, Dom crossed her tattooed arms over her broad chest. “We go to Delphi. We ask The Oracle in person.”
“In person?” I stammered. I hadn’t even considered the possibility that they had a physical headquarters, though in retrospect, it seemed obvious. To coordinate all of these highly illegal missions, they must have somewhere secure to meet.
It seems like an obvious next step… There are too many coincidences here for it to all be an accident. They know more than they’re telling us…
But while I was trying to figure out what that would even look like, it was clear that cooperation with Dom was completely off the table for Spencer.
“Absolutely fucking not.” She laughed, slinking back in her seat. "You've been lying to us for years, and now you want me to trust you leading us into that mine field? It’s not happening.”
“Come on…” Dom groaned.
But crossing her arms over her chest, Leo backed Spencer up. “You broke your oath, you broke our trust. You don’t get to be surprised when that has repercussions.”
I was surprised that Leo didn’t want to go to get her own questions answered.
If her parents knew Dom’s, it was pretty clear that they might have ties to Zeus too.
And despite how hurt I was by Dom’s lies, how angry I was that she’d let me disappear into the abyss of Maura and Gabe’s traps, I knew that the answers I needed were in Dom’s hands.
But the hurt of Dom’s betrayal apparently overpowered their curiosity.
“I know,” Dom nodded. “I know I lied. But I did it at The Oracle’s discretion.”
Leo frowned at this, while Spencer sucked her teeth.
Still, Dom pushed on. “Anything they didn’t tell me to do was something I did to protect you from my family’s misdeeds. All of you.”
Leo rolled her eyes. “Can you just say you’re fucking sorry?”
Dom opened her mouth at that, but swiftly closed it. She tried again, but nothing came out. Not yet, at least.
“Fucking ridiculous,” Spencer huffed, pushing out of her seat and storming out of the kitchen. Leo followed close behind her, glaring back at Dom as she disappeared around the doorframe.
And not wanting to be left alone with Dom again after everything that had happened, I stood too, turning to follow after them.
“Wait,” Dom said, emotion flickering behind her eyes as I turned to face her.
She looked miserable at best, and heartbroken at worst. But it didn’t make up for what she’d done.
With a sigh, I shook my head, “It’s just two words, Dom. But if you want to fix this, you’re going to have to prove you mean it. For real this time.”
And with that, I left to follow after my lovers, hoping that somehow, Dom would hear what I was telling her.