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I woke early for a reason. Tituss really got me last night. He had told me about the table, and I told him I wanted a shoulder rub. I just needed her to work out that knot. He reminded me that she was ours and asked why I would stop there.
She slapped my ass last night. Pushed me down, and…she slapped my ass. Which is why I was so off balance when she pushed me down. I stayed. I was the one who did the ass slapping. Not her. I shouted to the empty kitchen as another pancake burned, “Dammit!”
“Okay. Never mind.” It was Winston. His voice sent a tiny pulse of anger through me. I turned, and he said, “I thought you were—”
“Your Momma?” I asked.
He stood a little straighter and said, “I didn’t just call her that. When the guys at the pool were laughing at the artwork one of you did, I—”
“What?” I turned the stove off and motioned for him to get the rest of the way into the kitchen. He gulped but took a step forward. “Tell me. All of it.”
I was glad to see her when she stepped into the kitchen a few minutes after he stepped out. I said, “Will you check on Rip? I need to go for a run.”
“But—”
I moved over and pulled her up and into a hug and said, “You don’t want me around right now. I don’t want to be around him like this. Let me go run it out, please.”
She nodded.
I walked past her and out the door. I wasn’t exactly dressed for long-distance, but I was only going to a handful of bedrooms this morning and reminding them who the fuck they were dealing with. I could write whatever the fuck I wanted on her or any of our bunnies, though I wouldn’t have done that to anyone else.
“Hey, Dane, great ga—where are you—oh shit.”
Oh, shit was right.
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Harpy
I opened a couple windows and the front door to air out the smell of burned pancakes. Winston appeared and peeked around the corner, looked at the open door. He asked, “You okay?”
I nodded. “You?”
He nodded. “Is uh…he still here?”
“He went for a run. What happened?” I asked and titled my head. “I told him about the pool.”
I nodded. Okay, so? I waited, and Winston pushed up glasses he hadn’t been wearing the other day. Was he going to the pool, and then all that happened, and I messed up his whole afternoon? He said, “He’s not really a talk to get his point across sort of—”
My eyes went wide. “Okay. Don’t worry. He’s going to run it off.”
Tituss came out of his room, running, and all sorts of people began to emerge in various states of dress as Winston looked at his phone. He pulled off his glasses and handed them to me, and said, “I don’t want to break them.” He smiled and said, “It’s my first fight.”
“Your what?” I practically shouted, but he joined the rest of them in the mass exodus. I wanted to go after them, but my reason for letting him leave without question arrived in the hall wearing his Batman pajamas and rubbing his eyes. I smiled and said, “You want some pancakes?”
He lit up with a bright smile, did a fist pull as if he just won something, and said, “Yes!”
We didn’t live on campus, so I wondered if the police would show up. I wondered if it was an actual fight or if it was just the frat…both Rip and I leaned to see the person who just walked in the front door. Once he leaned against the door frame, Apollo said, “Hey, man. Those good?”
“Yup.” Rip shoved another bite in.
Apollo asked, “Can I get some?”
I got up and went to the stove. He walked over and stood next to me. Invasively close as he said, “It’s for the best.”
“What is?” I asked.
“You don’t know?” A ghost of a smile titled his seductive lips. I hated that this man felt both dangerous and attractive, but he was obviously both. “Well. I’ll let them deal with that. The fines are going to be…I think the party just got way better funding. No fundraiser is needed when everyone just empties their pockets.”
