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“AJ?” Grey called, but I was already moving. I could hear the shower running in the room to the right, and I headed for the door, shouldering through into her bedroom. Her smell permeated the air, like citrus fruits and salty caramel, making my jaw tighten.
I shoved through the bathroom door just in time to see her arm snake out of the shower and her wild eyes shining through wet dark hair as she threw a blade at me with a shriek.
I only just managed to dodge it, stepping to the left as it embedded in the door where my fucking head was a spit second earlier. A goddamned kill shot.
“Fuck, Sparrow!” I cursed, staring between her and the blade.
“Fuck me?” she howled, stepping out of the shower ass naked and dripping wet, making my fury heat into something more potent. “Fuckyou!”
She angrily ripped a towel from the hook to cover herself, and I opened my mouth to say something, but she looked at me like she might kill me if I dared. She didn’t know how much I’d have liked to see her try.
Rook appeared at my back with Grey only a step behind him.
“Great, now it’s a fucking party,” she hissed, tucking the corner of her towel down between her perky little tits.
“Can we rewind?” Rook asked, biting his lip ring as his heavy-lidded eyes narrowed on her body. “I think I missed the show.”
Ava Jade rolled her eyes. “I should carve each of your stupid eyes out,” she said, but I could tell she was quickly losing steam. Exhaustion dragged down the corners of her eyes, fucking with the usually bright and tawny color of her skin.
I couldn’t help noticing the bruises.
And the scars...
Her short towel did almost nothing to hide them. Perfect little lines of white raised skin in neat rows on her upper thighs.
Self-inflicted.
My upper lip twitched up into a scowl, wanting a villain to blame. A face to smash. A life to end for her suffering.
I stopped myself. Cut off the thoughts with clenched teeth.
“I can’t believe you locked me in that tiny ass room,” she said, shoving a heavy mass of wet hair away from her face as she approached us. Seeming to be completely unbothered that I’d seen every inch of her naked body.
“Uh, move or I’ll move you,” she sneered at me, shouldering past us all and into her bedroom.
“I mean, what the fuck did you think I was going to do? Stay there like a good little bitch? Maybe chew your furniture a little if I got hungry? Piss on the floor? Wag my little tail when you got home?”
Rook snorted.
“I was going to come get you at lunch,” Grey said in defense, and she whirled on him with a glare fit to smite him to ashes. I didn’t know how I didn’t see it in her from the start.
Her power.
It would have to be tamed if we were going to get her through this alive.
I pinched the bridge of my nose as Rook settled in to lean against the wall, loosely crossing his arms over his chest as she rummaged for clothes in the closet. He watched her like a starved lion before a feast. Transfixed. Like when he finally bent for the kill, he might not stop at blood and bone, but go for her heart, too. Her soul. I’d never seen that kind of obsession in him before, not even in his drug days, and it made my own blood chill to ice in my veins.
The edge of a dark duffle bag poked out from behind a stack of haphazardly folded jeans and I snatched it, shoving it at Grey. “Pack her a bag. We’re taking her back to the Nest.”
Her back stiffened, but she didn’t turn as she strolled to the edge of her bed, dropping her towel to give us an unobstructed view of her ass.
Jesus fucking Christ.
“I had a really good shower think after my rude awakening this morning…”
My cock thickened as she bent to tug on a thong and then a pair of jeans, jumping on the spot to hitch them up over her peachy ass. The searing urge to string her up and fuck her until she screamed herself hoarse made my muscles bunch and my erection push insistently down into the leg of my jeans.
“I decided the whole thing is a hard pass. I’m not doing it.”
