Three Trials (The Dark Side, #2)

by Kristy Cunning

“He’s only mad because he hates me as much as he likes me, and since he doesn’t want to like me, he tries to hate me a little more,” I say as Kai stretches out beside me, his body brushing through mine. Gage and Jude sit across from me like it’s a standoff, and they eye Kai like he’s a new traitor to their cause. I hold up two fingers while mouthing the new score. They both glare at me.

Just because I’m feeling petty, I scream loudly, startling all the rest of them. Three vines whip through me as I go back to phantom mode, and they crash into Jude hard enough to send him flying backwards into a tree. I smile over my shoulder at him as he pushes to his feet, glaring at me the entire time. “Burn,” I say with a saccharine sweet smile. Third time’s a charm, apparently. Kai bursts out laughing,

“Now that is how you welcome a girl back from the dead,” I say on a shuddering breath. “Congratulations. You’re finally my favorite again.” They all look torn between laughing and murdering someone.

Never mind about Ezekiel. Jude’s the one to worry about now. He’s the one who watched me die, and then kissed me for the first time when I came back because I wasn’t dead. Very hard man to impress, that one.