Page 56 of Godless Saints

He shoved a finger into my chest. Hard. But there was less force behind it now.

“You don’t get to sound jealous.”

My hand flexed at my side.

“Moon—”

“No.” His voice cracked. The fight was draining out of him. “You have no right to stand here like some wounded boyfriend because another man put his hands on me.”

His finger dug into my chest. Weaker now.

“You put a Blood Writ on me. Now you want to ask if Declan touched me?”

He turned away. His shoulders stayed tight, but the fight had left his body. All that remained was exhaustion and the quiet anger of someone who had let the wrong person in. His hand gripped the edge of the sink until his knuckles went bone-white. His spine stayed straight, but I could see the tremor running through his arms.

I stepped closer. “Moon.”

He spun. “Back the fuck off.”

I stopped.

His chest rose once, sharp. The gauze over his collarbone shifted with the movement. Neither of us moved.

“Was Saint Lucia part of the Writ too?”

“No.”

“No?”

“No.”

His fist tightened at his side until it shook. “Fuck you,” he whispered.

I nodded once. “Fair.”

I’d earned that. But I still couldn’t stop looking at him, the flush on his neck, the way his chest moved too fast, the towel barely hanging on. Moon’s jaw flexed. He looked like he could hear every single thought running through my head.

“Get out,” he said, quieter now. Deadlier.

I didn’t move. Instead I stepped closer, crowding him until I could feel the heat coming off his damp skin and see the frantic beat of his pulse in his throat.

“No.”

His breath hitched, small, involuntary. He hated that I heard it. But he had asked. He still cared enough to ask. The ring box burned against my thigh. He was one wrong word away from putting my teeth through the door. I pulled the box out. His eyes dropped to it. Whatever softness had almost been there died instantly.

“No.”

“You haven’t even seen it.”

“I do not care what it is.”

“I got you this.”

Moon went still. He scoffed.

“Of course you did.”

I held the box out.