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“Thank you,” I said, getting up from the moss, feeling extremely sore between my legs. Zev’s release trickled down my thigh. Lucien watched with feral intensity on his face while I tried everything not to feel ashamed.
“Did he force himself on you?”
“Excuse me?”
My eyes snapped towards him to make sure he wasn’t joking.
“Did he force himself on you?” His body was vibrating with anger. His eyes flashed yellow every so often.
“I think I would be in a different state than I am right now if he had forced himself on me.” I glared at him, wondering what the hell was going on?
“I’ve been looking for you since I woke, and I find you out here tied up with his release coming down your leg,” he snarled. “What am I supposed to think, I couldn’t find you.”
I heard the fear and anger in his voice, melting some of the anger I had been feeling. But I couldn’t help what came out of my mouth next.
“I could have been taken yesterday, and you didn’t even bother to look for me then. I waited in the library for you,” I snapped, feeling defensive. “You didn’t show up and you’re playing the ‘I’m worried for you’ card now?”
“I did check in on you yesterday,” he growled. “Yesterday was...”
His eyes glazed over in fear. It was like he was in a memory, or he remembered something awful. He shook his head, dispersing whatever he was thinking about.
“Is this why you’ve been distant?” I shivered, the cold finally seeping in.
He looked away, clenching his jaw looking like he was going to shut down on me. I didn’t wait for him to give me some bullshit response before I turned around to walk back to the house.
“Kit Kat,” Lucien called out to me.
As I left the forest to trek to the front door, Zev was walking back with a blanket in his hand, looking down. I was close enough to the house that he didn’t see me but my heart did a weird flip in my chest that he was coming back for me, but he had left me in the first place. I wanted to roll my eyes at myself, this thing with Zev was weird and I would deal with that mess later.
“Katarina.” Lucien grabbed my arm, but I wretched it away.
I practically ran to the door of the house for some warmth. When I entered, it smelled like soup, making my mouth water. Soup sounded perfect, exactly what I needed to get warm. As I entered the dining room, Mr. Potter came out of the kitchen.
“I’ll bring some soup up for you.” He nodded at me, averting his gaze quickly before I turned around to head to my room.
“Kit Kat,” Lucien called out to me again.
“You found me, now you can be on your way,” I snapped.
The shivering was getting worse as I climbed the stairs, needing warmth desperately. He followed me into my room before I shut the bathroom door in his face.
“Katarina, quit being a brat.”
I swung the door open, irritated that he just called me that when he had been acting like a petulant child himself.
“I’m the brat? Get your shit together, Lucien, I’m not the one who pulled away and told me everything was fine only for you to disappear last night. Then you get mad at me because you couldn’t find me,” I snarled at him. “Look, you need to go get your shit together because I’m tired of the back and forth with everyone. At least with Zev, I know we hate each other. I know there is going to be nothing more than sex, but you and Aeon are worse. You whisper nice words, sell me fake promises, and then leave me to deal with the aftermath.”
I felt a tingle of power in my hands, similar to what I felt the night Caston tried to take me away. Clenching my fists to keep whatever was happening at bay, I began to panic. Lucien said something before I shut the door in his face, and jumped into the water.
My heart was racing, my breathing was erratic, everything heightened, and all I could think of was burning, while Caston tried to get me to hurt them. This couldn’t be happening again, Lucien said he was going to show me how to protect myself but things had been so out of whack that we still hadn’t gotten to it.
“Katarina?”
He sounded far away, my anxiety and fear muddled everything around me. As long as I was in water, I was safe. I couldn’t hurt anyone.
“Open the door, Katarina.” The voice sounded angry.
“No, no, no,” I whispered, rocking back and forth.
