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“Fuck,” I hissed, grinding my teeth as I pulled out of Caroline’s popping lips.
She stared up at me, her eyes wet with tears from choking, her mascara smudged and running down her left cheek.
A week ago, I’d have fucked her throat raw.
A week ago, I’d have gotten hard at the mere sight of her teary eyes and smudged mascara.
A week ago, I wasn’t being haunted by Ava Jade Mason.
“Wh-what is it?” Caroline asked, breathless. “Do you want my ass? You can——”
“Get out.”
Her face broke. “What?”
“Get the fuck out.”
She didn’t move so I bent, batting her hand away from my still limp dick, snatching her by the throat in the process to force her to stand. She made a shrill little sound and pulled back, clawing at my hand and wrist as she tried to step away. “But——” she croaked, her words cutting off as I squeezed.
My monster reared its ugly head, solidifying my body, widening my stance. Thethump thumpof it echoed in the empty chasm of my chest.
“Caroline,” I warned, throwing her away, making her choke and cough from the pressure on her windpipe. She gasped, catching her breath as she spun unsteadily on her heels to leave. She didn’t look back.
I wiped a palm over my jaw as the chapel door fell closed behind her.
I tugged my jeans up and forced the monster back into its cage with a nip of whiskey from the flask in my back pocket.
This was a fucking problem.
Whiskey might do the bare minimum to tame my beast.
I lit up a cigarette and inhaled deeply, blowing smoke toward the altar.
Cigarettes might help take the edge off.
But sex…
It was an equally important remedy to the growing dark within.
Damn.
I smirked at the ridiculousness of it. At the ridiculousness ofherand what she was doing to us all.
Score one for the ghost.
Zero for the Crows.
My mouthtasted of lead and whiskey.
That was the first thing I noticed when I opened my eyes Tuesday morning. The second was the locked door.
Really?
A locked door.
What did they think this was, amateur hour?
I rolled my eyes after trying the handle for a second time, my fingers sleep numbed and body heavy with the after effects of Rook’s whiskey and lingering dread. I’d let Grey lead me to this spare room sometime in the early hours of the morning. I’d been in a daze, still reeling from everything that’d happened, and everything thatwouldhappen now that I’d been forcibly enrolled in the trials.
