Emery (Unexpected, #3)

by Cora Rose

He just looks so damn nice and put together, that I have this obsessive desire to mess him up. Get him dirty. Rumple his hair a bit. Spray my come across his face. Smear it into his skin. Whoops, too far.

“We grow accustomed to the Dark, when Light is put away.”

He presses a small kiss to the tip of my nose. And oh my god, my heart grows ten sizes bigger. It won’t fit in my chest anymore. It will have to live outside my body. Maybe August can tuck it away and keep it safe.

swallow roughly and then August says, “Here,” and pulls a sucker out of his pocket. I just blink at it. He brought me a sucker. He brought me a motherfucking sucker. He’s carried it around for me all day. In his goddamn pocket. “I love you,” I blurt and as soon as the words hit the cold evening air, my face flames. Oh my god. Why did I say that? What the hell is wrong with me?

Magnus, Elliot, and I are on a team versus Sem, Luke, and Emery. That was mistake number one. Putting the three of them together was a terrible decision because Emery fits right in, and they are wild. I can hear them cackling from where I stand. Sem has smeared his face in war paint and Emery lost his shirt somewhere.