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“I hope not to be involved in the thunder’s politics at all after this. Walking away from them would mean exile, which is why I can’t do it. If I’m exiled, I’m alone. If something happened to Brynn, my brothers, or you, I’d have no one to turn to. As much as I don’t like it, I need them to fall back on.”
Well, I liked that answer.
“I planned on going back to Scale Ridge,” he said. “Back to the cabin. I figured I’d have to chase some human male out of our house and woo you again. That we could live there, unless you needed to move for work. I plan to help the Villins with keeping the vampires in check, too.”
“Woo me again? I don’t remember being wooed the first time. You just told me we were a team, and I fell for it. What makes you think you could chase off some guy who actually tried to romance me?”
His lips split in a grin, flashing me a look at the wound I’d tasted when we kissed. It wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been, but it didn’t look good. “I have a really big…” I lifted my eyebrows, and he finished, “Teeth.”
“A really big teeth?” I drawled. “That’s not even almost grammatically correct, Auggie.”
He laughed, rocking me against his erection a little. “I’d hope your memory is good enough that I don’t need to translate.”
It definitely was.
“If you ever vanish after we have sex again, I’m walking away for good,” I warned, gesturing to one of the walls as if that was the way I’d walk when I tried to leave. It wasn’t, but the dramatic effect was the same.
“Lesson learned. Won’t happen again.”
“Glad we have that figured out.”
He made a noise of agreement. “You do have to leave, though, Fireball. As much as I appreciate you sneaking down here half-naked with pillows and a blanket, I can’t let you stay. It’s not safe.”
“You said that if I was your mate, I’d have to go to prison with you to keep you sane.”
His eyes narrowed as he put together where I was going with that.
“Today, you said I’m your mate. Was it a lie?”
They narrowed further.
I had him by the balls, and he knew it.
“Of course it wasn’t,” he finally said.
“Then I have to stay with you. You’ll just have to deal with it.”
“Fireball…”
“Are we already back to this? I thought we established that you’d rather have me stuck in this cell with you than back home flirting up a storm at every nightclub I can find with Randa and Vi.”
His grip on my ass tightened painfully, and he growled, “Graduation. I missed it. Did you walk?”
“Yep. Randa didn’t give me an option.”
“Good. I want to see pictures.”
“I can pull them up on my phone later. We were talking.”
“Right. You went partying afterward?”
“Not necessarily partying, but yes. They dragged me and Eli to a nightclub.”
“And?”
“And what?”
“And did you go home with someone?” He had to grit the words out.
