Total pages in book: 124
Estimated words: 114936 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 575(@200wpm)___ 460(@250wpm)___ 383(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 114936 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 575(@200wpm)___ 460(@250wpm)___ 383(@300wpm)
“Home.” I gave her something so she didn’t scream.
“Yours?” Her shoulders weakened a little, that tightness around them slacking. This was barrier talk, and she fell right into it.
“Sure.” I waved outside, and she took a second. Her eyes came to me, before going out the door. She couldn’t see anything from where she was standing, since it was late out, but by the time she would have figured out what was going on, it would be too late.
She stepped up to me, and when she took the final step to pass me and walk outside, my hand came to her mouth and I pulled her against my chest.
Leaning down, I grinded my teeth down over her ear. “You can scream all you want when we get back. But for now, gonna have to gag you.” Her legs flew back, colliding with my shin and she pressed up on her toes in an attempt to run from my grip.
I chuckled, directing her to the waiting SUV. The door swung open and I lifted her off the ground by the grip around her mouth, throwing her in and slamming the door once I was inside.
“What the fuck!” she screamed, the tires screeching as we pulled away from the trashy bar. “You could have just asked me!” Her eyes flew between Kohen and me. “And I’m all for a threesome too. You just had to ask.” Her arms folded in front of her and she looked out the window.
I cocked my head, spreading my knees wide. “Fuck, you are desperate.”
Her cheeks pricked pink. “What?”
I leaned forward just as Kohen clucked his tongue. “You really think I want to fuck you?”
Her brown eyes were now a shade below black. They almost looked unreal. “What is this?” Her tone was a lot softer than it was seconds ago.
I grinned at her, pulling my hunting knife out of the holster around my jeans. “I’m about to hear you scream.” She launched forward, her fist gaining speed toward my face, but Kohen caught it and shoved her back against the chair, his arm snaking around her throat to put her in a sleeper hold.
He stared up at me from behind smoky eyes. “We’re not allowed to play with this one. This one is different.”
I flicked my knife between my two fingers, studying him closely. Kohen was a lot of things, most of them deranged, but he did things by the book. He was loyal to Mayhem, and that was one thing people couldn’t fault him on.
“Yeah,” I murmured. “I am aware of who she is.” I was the catcher. Kohen was just there to keep me on track so I didn’t lose control.
“You’ll have to find your fun elsewhere tonight, brother.” Kohen’s mouth curved into a wicked smile. “And I’ll join you this time.”
Present
Cartier’s name flashes over my screen. Kyrin and Lilith are asleep upstairs after a long night of Luna, which is how I got to my current predicament. A chubby finger between my lips and bright blue eyes that could almost pass as violet like her mother’s peer up at me from behind dark lashes.
“You wanna talk to your aunty?” I swipe my phone unlocked, bringing it to my ear. “She’s kind of annoying,” I say to Luna. “It’s been three hours and you already can’t get enough of me.”
“I can plenty…” Her tone isn’t the playful Cartier I’m used to, and I shuffle Luna under my arm to bring my phone to the other ear.
“What’s wrong?”
She laughs, and again, it’s not the kind I’m used to. It’s cold and distant. “You don’t have to worry about me, Keaton. You just worry about Lollipop.”
My face falls and my eyes roll to the back of my head. “Shut up, Cartier. Why you callin’?” Her RV is directly in front of ours. After causing a storm with Perse, she got what she wanted. But then, Cartier always gets what she wants.
“Is Ky awake? He’s not answering my calls.”
I hang up on her and fling my phone across from me until it bounces off the cushion and falls onto the floor. I carry Luna upstairs until I hit Ky and Lilith’s room, knocking on the door with my knuckle.
The door opens and Kyrin wipes the sleep from his eyes and rolls out of bed. He takes Luna off me and carries her on his hip. “What?”
“Cartier. Something is going on with her and I know you don’t want to see it, but you need to trust me.”
“Oh yeah?” Suddenly his eyes are wide and his shoulders are back. “And why is it that I need to trust you when it comes to my own sister?”
Kyrin and I have been dancing around this for years, since he first saw her and me fight, but neither of us has come clean, and I know in the back of my mind, he doesn’t know the extent to which she and I have gone. If he did, he sure as fuck wouldn’t be riding in this RV with me. “Ky, shut the fuck up and listen to me.”