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I didn’t know. Not yet.
I folded my arms, nudging the door open further and leaning against the frame. No need to rile him up. This was already amazing.
“You like him,” I said to her with a grin.
She’d stayed.
She’d saved us, and now…
Damn… she’d just banged Ransom through a heat—whichstilldidn’t even make sense, but I’d deal with that later.
“He seemed like he could use some… help?” she said weakly. “I went into heat. I didn’t know where your pills were.”
“You like him.”
Ha.
He wasn’t her mate. And shedidfucking well like him.
Her fingers dug into the muscle of his torso and she looked defensive. “So what?” There truly was something bratty in hervoice. “Hedidn’t force his dick down my throat the first time I met him.”
Uh… that was such a lie?
The only thing that distanced me from Ransom was heat hormones. She looked so well fucked she was glowing. But I drew up as I saw Ransom had gone stiff, eyes wide as he stared at me.
Had he… understood that?
“Say that again…” I said.
“What?” Shatter asked. “You want me to lie to him? Tell him you asked nicely instead of blackmailing me, and drugging me, and?—”
She cut off as Ransom took a step forward, pulling from her touch, lips drawn in a hateful expression as his gaze locked on me.
He… understood?
My heart soared, a grin spreading across my face for half a second, and then it froze as Ransom’s low snarl vibrated through the room, an echo of unadulterated violence.
Ah.
Shit.
He understood.
FOUR
UMBRA
So.
Banana splits were awholething. Like. Really, really important.
“Banana splits were what you ate when a family got back together.”
That was what someone had said once—I didn’t know who, but the words stuck even when the memory didn’t.
Anyway, problem was, we weren’tquitethere yet.
Earlier, I’d woken up feeling far more refreshed than I had any right to given the last thing I remembered. But I’d been wrapped in an omega poison burrito with a pretty bite on my neck.
