Hunted (House of Night, #5)

by P.C. Cast

“You were incredible—beautiful and powerful and confident. You were all I could think of.”

You caught her sleeping with another man!

I could see the thin ribbon that sliced down the meaty pad under his thumb.

meaty pad is the most unattractive term lmao.

Then, in one rush, he said, “I love you, Z. All that’s happened between us hasn’t changed that, even when I wanted it to.”

Erik, no, omg you are so freaking dumb

I still want to be with you, Zoey, if you’ll just say yes.” “Yes,” I whispered without one instant of hesitation.

tell me this is a dream, good lord. I don't rememeber them getting back together.

He bent and his lips met mine. I opened my mouth and accepted his familiar kiss. His taste was the same; his touch was the same. I slid my arms up and around his broad shoulders and pressed myself against him, hardly able to believe that he’d forgiven me—that he still wanted me—still loved me. “Zoey,” he murmured against my lips. “I’ve missed you, too.”

Okay, so I'm not going to feel any kind of bad for him when she cheats on him again. He is so dumb.

I’d had sex had ended disastrously and had been the biggest mistake of my life. It had definitely not turned me into some kind of nympho ho!

I mean yes, but also no

“I wrote all them in the past few days. You know, since Stevie Rae got us our sense back.

Why does YA move so fast???

“You know—dippin’ dots. I love me some dippin’ dots,” she said. Erik and I moved around Kramisha’s room.

I kinda like Kramisha

What the hell. I’m the only High Priestess we have. I can make a proclamation. “Kramisha, I’m going to make you our first Poet Laureate.”

I started to turn away and Erik’s touch on my arm stopped me. “Hey, we’re together again. Aren’t we?”

bruh

Maybe the increase in the sexual tension between us was natural, and not just because he thought I was a skank now that I’d given up my virginity. Erik was a man, I repeated the thought to myself. I already knew from the disaster with Loren Blake that being with a man was different than being with a boy or a fledgling.

“Like Loren” wasn’t a particularly good analogy. But Erik definitely was not Loren! Erik had never used me or lied to me. Erik was Changed,

that's right. you used and lied to him.

With an effort I put Erik out of my mind. “Sorry . . . sorry, I’m coming,” I said and hurried into the locker room.

I swear if this next chapter is just them showering and not post Kolona dream, I'm going to scream.

CHAPTER NINE Okay, taking a group shower with girls who had affinities for water and fire was an experience that went from awkward to interesting to

fml

But we are all girls, hetero girls at that, so we really weren’t interested in each other’s boobies and such, no matter how hard that is for guys to comprehend, so the awkward part didn’t last long.

Why do i feel like they still WOULD be? or is that just a me being bi thing lmao

I said, “Wind, send all this back to the Twins!”

The magic system in this universe is so dumb. I'm gonna say it: Twilight's was better

Twins, who screeched and laughed and tried to fight back. Of course they couldn’t win. I mean, come on! I can call on all five elements, but it was a hilarious version of a pillow fight–water fight that left all of us drenched and breathless with laughter.

Because I'm so super special and so much more powerful.

We finally called a truce. Okay, more accurately, I made the Twins yell, “We give! We give!” several times, and then I graciously accepted their surrender.

were surrounded by the earth and protected by male vampyres who would no way let anyone sneak up on us.

Then I’d had that horrible dream, which brought me back to current time. I’d hoped replaying everything that had happened in the past several hours would be like counting sheep and maybe help me drift back into a hopefully dreamless sleep. But it was no use.

this is a poor transition, but i'm glad to be done with the flashback.

calling me some dead dirt girl’s name.

Sister Mary Angela and I had hit it off from the moment we met. She’s cool and spiritual, and wise and nonjudgmental. She even thinks that Nyx is just another version of the Virgin Mary

I KNOW! I READ THE LAST BOOK!!!!

I jerked my mind from those kinds of thoughts. Pain couldn’t equal pleasure. What

Dude, you got off from being choked. It absolutely can. Ask Pinhead

Handing him the pop and chips, I made my way more easily up the rest of the ladder.

So I just realized. Do people in Oklahoma call soda "pop"? According to huffingon post it's mostly referred to as Coke in oklahoma. north Oklahoma does call it pop, but it's not the dominant term. Meaning, I can guarantee not every single one of Zoey's friends is going to say pop every time. At least a couple would use different terms of it. I.E Coke.

that Erik was this big, tall, hot, studly guy who reads all sorts of books and watches old Star Wars movies. My grin got wider.

Right cause most guys can only be hot OR have hobbies.

smile still tugging at the corners of his mouth. I thought about how hot he was and how glad I was that we were together again, and I said, “Want

Shes so shallow

“Because they’re the same and they belong together,” he said. I looked up into Erik’s amazing blue eyes and saw that all the kidding had gone out of them. “Yeah, even if bad things happened in their past. They’d have to forgive each other for the bad stuff, but I think they could have.”

I get the metaphor but thos is so untrue for them lmai

Yes it is. Ew.

she is mine, I want her, and I’m going to have her now. He must have felt me stiffen because he pulled back, gave me an easy smile, and then said, “So, what are you doing up here?”

That literally contradicts her concern. If he really didnt care he wouldnt hace stopped

Heath’s voice stopped me. “Hey, is that you, Zo?”

I honestly missed him lol. Erik is so boring

“Yeah? How often has your stupid human ass put her in danger since she’s been Marked?” That unpuffed

Like... None?

But they say that some gang went nuts last night about midnight, some kind of New Year’s initiation thing.

Prophecy: end of world Reality: Gang Violence

The announcer was being all serious and talking quickly. “To repeat our special report on the gang violence in midtown Tulsa last night, Tulsa P.D. reiterates that the city is safe and the problem

Lucky they caught the report just as it began

“Nothing’s going to happen to her as long as I’m alive,” Erik said.

Youre an actor not a fighter. Lmao

“Hell no,” Erik said, moving toward me possessively. “She’s not going anywhere with you.” I was frowning up at Erik, about to tell him that he really wasn’t the boss of me, when he did something that totally, utterly, and completely pissed me off. He actually grabbed my wrist and jerked me toward him, even though I hadn’t taken one step to follow Heath. An automatic reflex had me yanking my wrist from his grasp.

This is actually good. Possessivenes in YA is overdone but a negative reaction to it is good. But legit erik is suddenly a huge dick so readers are okay when she leaves him for stark. Thos os exactly what happened to Jacob in Eclipse. His character is literally being assasinated for romance plot with another dude.

His blue eyes narrowed at me. At that instant he looked mad and mean, and seemed more a stranger than a boyfriend. “You’re not going anywhere with him,” he repeated to me. My temper spiked. I cannot stand being bullied. It was one of the reasons my mom’s new husband and I never got along.

“Erik, enough. Just because we’re back together doesn’t mean you can tell me what to do.” “How about does it mean you don’t cheat on me again with your human boyfriend?” Erik snapped.

God. Why did they even get back together. Its been like 4 hours.

sense. What do you think I’m going to do in the minute or so I’d be alone with Heath standing outside in the parking lot during an ice storm? Lie down and let him do me right there on the cement? Is that really the kind of girl you think I am?”

I mean... Yes

I clutched on to him to keep from falling on the ice-slick pavement, but it felt so familiar and easy to be with him that I didn’t even hesitate.

Which makes him a better option than Erik. Just sayin

“And then I wake all the way up and remember that you won’t be there for any of those things. That wasn’t so bad when we were Imprinted, ’cause I still felt like I had a chance, that I still had a part of you. But now even that’s gone.”

Poor fecker. Jeezus

“Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you,” Heath said. “Heath, no. We

Can one of you guys PLEASE learn your lesson?

“Zzzzzoey?” It breathed my name, its voice sounding wrong and flat and utterly inhuman. “We havvvve been loooooking for you.”

It only took you a few hours to find her. Congrats!

fly down and snatch me up. “I’ll have to say ‘hell no’ to that little messed-up plan of yours,” Heath yelled.

Why do multiple characters talk like this? Alsp Zoeys super op amd special but she always needs saving.

With a scream I gave voice to my fear and rage as I launched myself at Heath, knocking him aside a moment before the Raven Mocker reached him so that the creature struck me instead.

BITCH YOU HAVE POWERS. WHY ARE YOU SO DUMB?

“Burn it up,” I commanded.

WHY DIDNT YOU DO THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE?????

I’m the gay-looking DiCaprio and you’re Rose.

And why couldn’t she have scooted over and let Leo/Jack get on that floating board thing with her? There was plenty of room. So while my foggy mind circled round and round that heart-wrenching scene from one of my favorite movies, Heath held me tight in his arms and ran.

This is kinda cute. #TeamHeath

Stevie Rae knocked the stuff off the table that sat by the end of her bed.

why is there just a table at the end of the bed??

“No. You aren’t supposed to be here. This isn’t right.” She paused and her eyes narrowed at Heath. “You caused this, didn’t you?”

No. Zoey's stupidity did. Bro was just chillin.

Jack took one look at me, screamed like a girl, and fainted.

God. I hate her depiction of gay boys.