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I lifted a brow, trying to reconcile this Becca with the one I thought I had pegged as a docile non-threat.
When I glanced at Ava Jade, she was staring at me, doing an analysis of her own.
“It’s okay, Becca,” she decided, reaching out to squeeze her roommate’s arm. To reassure her. “Corvus knows I’m not going with him. He’s smart enough to know that no matter how many times he drags me back to the Crow’s Nest that I’ll just keep escaping. And that I might just decide to slit a few throats on my way out next time.”
“Mmmm,” Rook moaned almost inaudibly.
Heat rushed across the back of my neck at her defiance, making my hands curl and stiffen, my jaw clench.
Touché, little Sparrow.
Becca nodded to her roommate, busying herself pouring the frothed milk into the cup with the espresso before handing it over to Ava Jade, who looked like she might come on the spot at the first sip. A curl of wicked jealousy wrapped its green fingers around my stomach.
She peered at me over the brim of her cup, waiting for me to play the next card.
“Aww, let her stay,” Rook said, sauntering toward the kitchen. He cut in between Ava Jade and Becca, scooping a mug from the top of the espresso machine with his pinkie. He held the mug out to Becca with a grin, ignoring Ava Jade completely. “Can I get one of those, love?”
Flustered, Rebecca cleared her throat and took the proffered cup with a little nod, setting to work making another latte.
I sent Rook a pointed glare, telling him without the need for words that we’d talk about his idiocy later.
“Fine,” I said just as Grey exited Sparrow’s bedroom with a duffle full of clothes, my skin practically fuckingitchingwith irritation. If she kept pushing me, I was going to blow.
How did shedothat?
Nothing affected me like this.
I made sure of it.
Always calm.
Always level headed.
Except with her.
“She stays,” I announced, turning my attention back to Sparrow, fixing her with a hard stare. “But one of us stays with you. One of us is with you at all times.”
She paused, her latte frozen in mid-air with a grimace.
I drew my phone from my pocket and thumbed in her number, my angry strokes messing it up twice before I got it right. It was one of the first things I memorized from her file.
I sent her Rook, Grey, and myself as contacts via text. “I just sent you all of our numbers. If I text you, you reply. If I call,you answer.”
Her expression soured.
“And if I don’t?”
My spine tingled.
“If you don’t, I’ll drag your ass back to the Nest and design you your very own fucking prison cell,” I warned, the image of her locked behind iron bars, chained, and as naked as she’d been only minutes ago made my cock thicken once more.
“Don’t think I won’t do it,” I added. “Nothing would make me happier.”
Total.Fucking.Jackass.
I grumbled wordlessly to myself through the last two classes of the day, barely able to focus on anything at all. At least fifty times the thought crossed my mind to just take off.
But even in the two classes I didn’t share with any of the Crows, their authority was ever present.
