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A peculiar, familiar smell hit my nostrils’ a second later.
“Are you serious?” I looked over at Zane as he accepted a joint from Maliki.
Instead of answering he brought it to his lips and took a heavy drag. I counted the seconds in between until he exhaled his smoke in my direction.
“How very mature of you,” I quipped, waving a hand to disperse the cloud.
“Wanna hit?” He kept one hand on the steering wheel and offered me the joint with the other.
If it weren’t so dark inside the XL, I would have let my expression answer for me.
“You just had your mouth on that.”
“So? You wanted me to put this same mouth on you a few hours ago.”
“You know that isn’t remotely what she meant,” Nyx cut in.
“What does ‘bite me’ mean?” Maliki questioned.
“When spoken to little b
oys such as you, it means fuck off,” Annie replied.
I laughed at her bluntness. “Refer to her definition for future reference.”
“Little boys, huh?” Zane mused, passing the joint to the guy with long hair when he stretched between the seats for it. “I’ll remember that.”
“Meaning?”
“Meaning when I make good on my promise, you’ll find out how untrue that is.” The light from the XL’s screen perfectly illuminated his accompanying smirk.
Remembering his whispered proclamation, I swallowed and faced forward again.
I didn’t understand why he even said what he had to me. We’d just met one another tonight. We were not friends, we were not teammates, and we damn sure weren’t lovers. We were not anything but the Savage Princess and Venomous Prince who were never supposed to be this close to one another.
I knew what my family did to his just as I knew what his family did to mine. What could he possibly want with a devil like me?
We had to work with one another, for the time being, and I got that. I still didn’t understand why, however, I was going to take a page out of Nyx’ book and use them to help him find my sister.
In the meantime, I wasn’t going to allow him to get to me with whatever this unorthodox energy between us was.
Although, that was much easier said than done when an invisible string felt as if it were trying to draw me towards him—the desire to follow it evident in the concupiscence thoughts I was trying not to have, and the needling curiosity I was trying to quell.
Needing to clarify for myself as much as him, I cleared my throat and quietly said, “Maybe you should stop smoking because you’re living in dreamland. That will never happen. We will never be more to each other than what we are right this moment.”
“We’ll see,” he confidently replied without missing a beat.
I shook my head and looked to the night sky, asking my satanic god for patience.
Chapter Eleven
Undecim
I wasn’t one for worrying.
Even now as I went against the grain and abandoned my usual process, driving towards the unknown, I wasn’t worried.
Demon and Mark would do what they needed to do to survive, and they knew I would be coming for them. It wasn’t even a question, and when I got there, they knew whoever had chosen to fuck with them, which in turn fucked with me, would feel the full effects of their spines being crushed and necks being snapped.
