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You tried to kidnap her. And use me as a hostage.” I wave a dismissive hand. “You were not a hostage, Min. I didn’t hogtie you, drive into the outback in a black van, and take a video of you with a claw at your throat outlining my requests.” She narrows her eyes. “That’s oddly specific.” “I daydream about these things sometimes,” I say quickly.
I rise from my seat, pulling down the cuffs of my suit jacket. “Very well. I’ll do my rounds with the rabid students and then go to see her.” Celeste nods imperiously, the edges of her lips twitching as she muses. “How long I’ve waited, Lyle. How long we’ve waited.”
joy. My playful wolf is not right in the head.
Another one for your collection xoxo
And then something happens that has me glaring at the Boneweaver girl. She raises her hand and asks, “I have another question, sir. Why does a pack naturally want to question their regina’s dominance? What makes them want to test her so badly?” The fucking audacity.
I clench the edge of my desk. “Here you go, sir,” she purrs, placing the papers in front of him, her hand brushing his arm on the way back up. “Another one for your… collection.”
Eugene
“Thank you,” I tell him stiffly. Of all the guards and beasts in this place, it was the rooster that saved Aurelia in the end. Lucky for Savage and his paranoia about the fifth member of the Boneweaver mating group.
“Five black devils are approaching Five black hearts are wanting It is five who cry a dark and lonely song, calling for their queen. Lion, shark, dragon, wolf and… shadow.”
“My animus and I are one, snakelet,” he whispers into my mind. “I am the monster and the monster is me, unfortunately for my beautiful little regina.”
He opens his mouth and sharp, sharp teeth scrape gently across my skin. It’s like a sharp, primal kiss and I sense the restraint behind it. Oh dear Goddess.
“I am known by many names, snakelet. Boogeyman, devil, king… snake eater…” I can feel him smirking as more of those teeth kiss down the line of my neck, his breath searing me. “What name would you give me?” “Irritant,” I whisper. “Deviant. An all-round nuisance.”
“They call me Ghoul, regina. You have not earned my real name.”
That bastard. He comes here, gets me all worked up, and then leaves? Breathing hard, I glance over at Minnie, but my eyes are pulled back into her purple armchair. Eugene sits in it, sleeping soundly, by his even breathing.
I have a feeling that I’ve just met my most dangerous mate.
Eugene is still on the purple armchair. I don’t know what happened to him when Ghoul was here last night, but he seems fine except for a thin golden bow tied around his beak.
“Aurelia has many surprising skills,” Lyle says slowly, purposefully. Both Savage and I go still. “But she’s also very good at hiding things right under my nose.” He knows we’re under here. Shit.
scent—scoops me up. “Terrible, ruthless, regina,” Xander’s dragon rasps inside my head. “In all our lives together, you have never, not once, asked me to hurt you.”
“By all rights I should take you to my den, lay you face down upon my treasure and remind you who owns you.” I can barely make a snarky reply of “Is that a promise?” before I let the darkness swallow me whole.
But now I can see Scythe, leaning against the wall with his hands in his pockets. I grin at him. “Daddy shark do-do-do,” I sing. “Daddy shark do-do-do-do.” I lick my lips. “It’s a children’s song. Do you know it, gang boss?”
Ghoul’s chest rumbles as he pops himself out of my mouth, leaning down to bite my neck and swirling a wet finger over my clit. His breath is warm against my pulse. “I dreamed about you long before we met.”
On that, I can fight my primitive urges. My phone vibrates and I glance at it to see Georgia is taking sick leave for the next few days.
“This is why she’s always drained,” is all I say. “Why she is always unwell.” “Fucking admit it, you cold bastard,” Lyle says. “She’s been protecting us from the Serpent Court the entire time. Protecting you.”
Things are going to be different now, and Aurelia has no fucking idea. While Savage was bad enough with his regina, his energy was playful. Lyle’s energy is not. Mine is not.
