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“I’m not saying anything…except that you like my cock too much to give it up.”
I snort before I can stop myself. “You’re ridiculous.”
And not entirely wrong.
The elevator pings, signaling we’ve reached my floor, and I move to step into the hallway.
Levi stops me.
“You know, you can always come back to my room for an encore performance…” He waggles his eyebrows suggestively.
I smirk and step out of the elevator, just as the doors begin to slide shut.
“This princess needs to get her beauty rest,” I tease.
Though what I actually need to do is get this séance set up.
“You don’t need any beauty rest, princess.” Levi flashes me a bright smile just as the doors slide shut the rest of the way with an audible ping. Still, his voice carries, even with the steel-reinforced doors separating us. “You’re beautiful just the way you are.”
“And you’re a cheesy smooth talker with a huge dick,” I murmur under my breath, but I’m grinning.
And I’m still grinning when I enter the honeymoon suite a few minutes later…only to have my smile immediately dissipate from my face.
“Motherfucker,” I growl as my gaze lands on the tattered remains of my T-shirt lying on the bed.
Beside it, carefully folded, is Brooks’s shirt. There’s only one thing I can say in a situation like this…
“Damn Bellua brothers!”
13
THIRTEEN: ORION
Ifeel sick to my stomach.
Whenever I blink, I swear I see their faces.
Etched on the skin of my eyelids.
Tattooed on my flesh.
Blink.
I see them.
Blink.
I hear their screams—though this is just a construct of my overactive imagination, not reality.
Blink.
I see Lily the way she looked on prom night out of my bedroom window, dressed in orange, when everything was good in my life and my world wasn’t falling to pieces.
Blink. Blink. Blink.
I did what Jackson asked, what I’ve resisted doing for five long years—I dug into Lily’s past. I didn’t have to go far to find the horror. Right at the top of the search results was a newspaper article from our hometown of Haddenwood. My brain refused to shut off until I found every last piece of information.
When I read the police report…
