Liar (Madison Kate, #2)

by Tate James

"I'm not telling you shit, Madison Kate," he continued, in that low, menacing voice, "because I don't fucking trust you. You're not one of us; you're just a liability." His words hurt. More than they should have.

Ouch. Every word cut like a razor. Still, I gave a throaty, mocking laugh. "You think it'd be that easy, Archer? You think one fuck and he'd be over me?" I snapped my fingers. "Just like that, huh?" Archer's handsome face turned colder than I'd even thought possible, and his next words hung in the air long after he was gone. "It sure worked for Steele."

And two, reverse harems required three or more love interests. Archer was not an option.

"Babe, Archer went to all the effort of actually attending classes today. The least you can do is rub his fucking face in the fact that we're hopelessly in love and probably going to fuck loudly on the table right in front of him." His tone was dead serious, and Bree made a choking noise.

"So, aside from making their lives a living hell by withholding your magical, coveted vagina—" "Ha-ha," I cut her off sarcastically.

"Fuck, okay!" Steele shouted. "Calm your tits, Kody. I'm sure she's just downstairs getting coffee." He shot me a curious look as he rolled off me, and I propped my head up with my hand. "Unless she's in my room?" he whispered, "Naked and freshly fucked and looking more gorgeous than I've ever seen her?"

By the time I stepped out of the bathroom, I'd only drawn one logical conclusion. Those fuckers had planted a tracker on me somehow.

He scoffed a laugh. "Uh, babe, you were sound asleep with your face in my crotch. I wasn't going fucking anywhere in a hurry." He shot me a wolfish grin. "Might I also point out the extreme restraint I displayed in not getting a boner under your cheek?" I grinned. "Oh yeah? Was that... hard for you?"

"Come on, D'Ath," I groaned. "I'm not in the mood for more bullshit. Did you actually have anything to show me? Or were you just worried I'd somehow talk Kody and Steele into a three-way in the back of your grandmother's Rolls Royce?" A short huff escaped Archer, like a laugh he was trying not to let out, and he slowly swung his gaze back to me. "I highly doubt it'd take much to talk them into that, Madison Kate." I sighed and folded my arms under my breasts. "Okay, so, good to know you're a major cunt-blocker."

"I'm not high-fiving that, Kody. God damn, how do you ever get laid?" Kody's grin was pure arrogance. "Dude, have you seen me? I'm like walking sex." Steele laughed, and I groaned. He wasn't wrong, though.

His responding grin was quick. "Well, luckily for you, I'm a have-my-cake-and-eat-it-too kinda guy. I am going to teach you a couple of basic self-defense moves, which we're going to build on every time you can't sleep and come creeping down here like a black cat." He prowled closer to me, stopping only when we were close enough that his sweatpants brushed my bare thighs. "And then I'm going to fuck you hard enough to wake this entire damn house up. Clear?"

"You're vicious. No wonder Steele calls you Hellcat. Never heard a more appropriate pet name in my life." I scoffed, grinning. "Nonsense, you hear me call Archer 'asshole' all the freaking time."

Humans have infinite, untapped possibilities, and I fully believe we're capable of equally strong emotions for more than one person."

"Kodiak, I'm not in the fucking mood for games. You're either sticking this in me, or I'm going back upstairs to finish myself off. Make a decision. Quickly."

I didn't have any pockets in my dress, so for lack of any better ideas, I pulled the hem of my dress up, unhooked one of the suspenders from my stocking, and looped it through the blade handle before reattaching it. I tucked the bulk of the knife into the lace band at the top of my stocking, then gasped as the car swerved sharply. "Whoa, what the fuck?" Kody asked from the backseat. "First time driving, bro?" Archer's scowl was firmly fixed on the road, his knuckles white on the steering wheel. "Sorry," he muttered from behind clenched teeth. "Thought I hit a squirrel." Kody and Steele made jokes about Archer's shitty driving, but I just side-eyed him. Squirrel, my ass.

Steele propped his head up on his hand—his unharmed side—as he lay beside me with a sexy grin on his lips. "Have you ever done anal before, Hellcat?" My jaw dropped slightly, but he grabbed my hip and rolled me toward him so I couldn't even deflect the question. I had to laugh at the intense, excited look on his face, though. "Yeah... once or twice." It was Steele's turn to let his jaw drop in surprise, and Kody let out a low chuckle as he scooted in close behind me on the bed. "Fuck yeah," Kody snickered, then the two of them fucking high-fived over me.

Kody did as he was told, fishing out a little bottle of lube and a couple of condoms. "Why? MK calls you Max." "MK is about to let us double team her, dickhead; she can call me anything she damn wants. You can't." Steele's glare was totally serious, and I just shrugged.

Yeah, bitch. Suck it. They're mine now.

"Shhh, Kate, I've got you," he whispered in my ear, his huge hands stroking down my spine over and over, his arms holding me tight and totally erasing the crawling feeling of insects. "You're safe, I've got you," he whispered. "I'm never letting you go. Not ever."

"Sorry, brother. You brought this mess on yourself. Maybe you'll think twice next time an in-debt businessman offers to sell his daughter."