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“I think you’ve already done that,” I finally answered.
In the past couple months, Knight had done everything he’d promised, and that had helped me cinch Maxon’s trust. If not for that, I doubted Maxon would’ve let me walk away from that day in the swamps.
I held out my hand, a gesture of truce.
He stilled. Then, meeting my gaze, an unspoken comment passing between us, he shook my hand and nodded. Suddenly, I felt a flooding of release hit me.
Godfuckingdamn. Summer was right.
It felt good to let things go. To trust people again.
Suddenly, lights dimmed, the music grew louder, and Amara and Callie’s laughter filled the air. They were dancing in the middle of the room. Someone had bought a disco ball, and its lights were bouncing around the room.
Hawke wasn’t dancing with them, but brooding in the shadows with a frown on his face. His stare was burning a hole in Callie’s backside.
“We’ll talk later,” Tatiana said to me, squeezing my wrist before she and Knight joined the others on the dance floor.
Summer put a drink in my hand, smiling softly when I noticed she’d given me some of Douglass’ whiskey. “You happy?” she asked.
I took a sip, the smell in my nose reminding me of other times, good times, with Douglass. I nodded, “Yes.” It was true.
“Good.”
The girls made space for Knight and Tatiana, who were staring at each other intently, in love, oblivious to the world around them, and I could only stare in surprise at the sight before me.
So, it was true.
Tatiana had really forgiven Knight, and they were truly happy together.
Callie left the group and went to Hawke. She gave him a teasing smile and tugged on him, inviting him to join the group dancing.
“They remind me of us,” Summer gestured towards Tatiana and Knight. “They’re…” she struggled to find the right words, “meant to be together.”
Growling, I grabbed Summer’s side and pulled her into my embrace. “You mean that?” I asked her. “You believe we’re meant to be together.”
“Yes,” she answered, staring straight into my eyes, her expression serious.
“You tricked me,” I said into her ear, my fingers threading in her hair, “Went behind my back, somehow got their information. Invited them here without my permission.”
“I don’t need your permission,” she sassed back. “It’s my house. I can invite who I want to visit.”
Fisting her hair, I pulled her head back to bare her neck to me. I pressed a kiss at the base of her jaw, and murmured in her ear. “You have exactly one minute.”
“One…minute?”
“Yes,” I said, my voice low and threatening. “You were naughty tonight, and deserve your punishment.”
Her eyes widened, “But here? Now?”
“Everyone in this room deserves to know how naughty you’ve been…” I gave her a stark look. She knew I didn’t give a shit about who was around.
“But Callie?—”
“Fifty seconds…”
She yelped, then jerked from my embrace, and ran from the room.
CHAPTER 53
