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I moved to brush past her with Becca on my heels but she stepped once to her right, blocking our path and forcing me to stop or plow her over.
She was lucky I was trying so very hard to be good, even though I could already feel the rush of that unnamablethinginside of me rearing its ugly head. Uncoiling like a snake.
Rising like steam until my cheeks flushed red and my scalp dampened with sweat.
“I don’t think so, Lennox—”
“It’sAva Jade,” I bit out, interrupting her.
“You don’t need to be here, hon. Don’t make this difficult. Just go back to where you came from, ’kay? Nobody wants you.”
I opened my mouth to form a reply, but Becca beat me to it.
“Oh, fuck off, Brianna.Ihappen to like Ava. She’s much better company than you ever were.”
“You little fucking bitch—”
Bri made a grab for Becca and that was it. When her manicured claws curled into Becca’s hair, I sawred.
Letting go was always easy, even when I wished it weren’t, but this time it was a motherfucking pleasure. I bristled with ecstasy in the split second before I launched my closed fist at her ugly ass face.
She released Becca the instant my knuckles cracked into her nose, a stunned look making her eyes round and distant as she staggered back, blinking to keep from passing out.
I didn’t even realize I’d hit her again until I tasted blood on my tongue and realized I was splattered with it.
Someone screamed and hearing the sound of approach, I whirled, ready to take on whoever else wanted a fucking piece. I didn’t even want to use my blades right now. I would if I had to, but the sting in my knuckles wasgiving me life.
The blonde who’d raced forward to try to attack me backed off when she saw the look on my face. Everyone backed off. Even Becca. The music continued to thud even with a floor devoid of dancers.
In the blink of an eye I’d transformed them from carefree partiers to stunned onlookers.
One of my best tricks.
Let them watch, my darkness whispered. I wasn’t finished. Not quite yet.
I went back to Bri, who had fallen and was trying to get up on shaking legs, slipping on the smear of her blood. I gripped her by her hair like she’d gripped Becca’s and ripped her head back.
She screeched, clawing at my hands, but I couldn’t even feel it. The darkness was flowing freely now, blocking out the pain. Blocking out anything and everything I didn’t care to feel. Anything I couldn’tuse.
“You’ll pay for this, Lennox,” she cried. “I’m going to fuckingendyou.”
I put my mouth level with her ear, twisting her wrist back behind her when she made a swipe for my face. “1323 Rochester Lane. Big white house. Blue shutters,” I whispered in her ear and reveled in the way her breath caught in her throat. The way her body stiffened.
It was easy to find her address, and one of the first things I did that very first day after the cow set her sights on me. A bit of social media sleuthing and reverse google image searching andvoila. I had it. Just in case.
“Go ahead and come after me. See what happens.”
I threw her head down and let her clamber to catch herself on the floor, inhaling deeply as the rush began to wear off, lingering only in my twitching fingers and the heat licking up my spine.
Three sets of eyes found mine when I lifted my gaze.
The Crows watched from their makeshift throne, expressions of shock and hostility reigniting my embers to flames. Did they want a turn?
“Come on,” Becca said, and I flinched when she grabbed my bloodied hand. “We should get out of here, likenow.”
I let her pull me out, drunk off the rush, and grinning ear to ear.
The music pulsedas I leaned forward on the couch to watch as Ava Jade collided with Bri’s backside, and the bitch turned feral. I had to admit, I was curious how she would react to the self-proclaimed queen of Briar Hall.
