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Nobody spoke a fucking word, so I flipped to my favorite page of Sina’s diary and tossed it onto the bed next to Darius.
“Seeing as everyone is lost for words tonight, I’ll step up and choose the next diary entry that we’ll enact for Sina. I think this one will do quite well.”
“Pretty Bird has some damn kink with not seeing our faces, huh?” Darius said, lips curling into a smirk as his gaze drifted down the page. “But this one is kinda outlandish, don’t you think? Definitely a lot more …”
“Rapey,” Gaian said, looking at the page uncomfortably and scratching the back of his head. “I mean, that’s what it basically is.”
“She has a safe word,” I said blankly. When nobody refused, I took the book back and snapped it shut. “I’ll get what we need this time, and tomorrow, we’ll surprise her. It’s not like any one of us is going to be able to hold ourselves back. The closer the full moon gets, the stronger the mate bond will be before taking full effect.”
12
the tavern
sina
It wastwo in the morning, and I couldn’t sleep.
I paced around my bedroom, counting the seconds, the minutes, the hours that had passed since Thayer had told me that Calder wanted me to be pregnant. My heart hadn’t stopped racing at the thought, and I needed to talk to someone about it.
Someone needed toconvinceme that the thought was crazy, right?
A breeding kink and pregnancy werenotthe same thing.
“Come on, Maxine,” I whispered into my phone, looking back at my closed bedroom door to make sure nobody walked in on me. “Answer the goddamn phone. I need reassurance, and these guys are not helping!”
The line rang and rang and rang, and then,finally,Maxine answered the phone, the background noise loud on the other side.
“Sina? Are you okay?” she asked. “You never call while I’m working.”
“Are you at the tavern?” I asked, brows furrowed.
“Yes, wh—”
“I’m coming down to Durnbone now.”
After slamming the End button, I shoved my phone into my pocket and opened the second-story window in my bedroom. If I tried to sneak out through the hallway, one of them was bound to hear me. But if I went through the window … I had a better chance of getting out.
They wouldn’t let me out of their sight any other way.
“Thank you, Dad,” I said, fitting my body through the window and holding on to the edge tightly to brace myself for the fall. “For teaching me the right way to sneak out without getting caught. That’s the only damn thing I learned from living in your house.”
Once I took the leap of faith and let my hands slip from the edge, I landed feet-first onto a smaller tree branch. I wrapped my arms around the tree trunk and slithered down it until my feet landed on the ground.
Scanning the woods for any sign of Calder, Darius, Thayer, or Gaian, I found the forest relatively empty. I turned on the directions on my phone and followed them to a dirt road that led back into Durnbone.
The closer I got to town, the more people I saw who were out this late at night. I ignored the desperate faces of incubi wanting to get their fixes of human girls. That was what The Dungeon was for—if they wanted to suck a girl dry of blood, lust, or life.
“Can I—” a deep voice started from behind me, a hand coming around my hip.
I whirled around on my heel, about to slap whoever it was, just to see Jaroth, my ex, creeping around behind me. When he saw that it was me, he let his hand linger for a moment longer than it should’ve, then pulled it away.
“Fuck, Sina,” he said harshly, though his eyes were just as dark and filled with lust as they had always been around me. Too bad for him. That fucker had had to cheat. We probably still would’ve been together if he could control himself. “Why’re you still in town? Your father here?”
“That’s none of your business,” I said between gritted teeth. “I’m busy.”
“You’re busy at two in the morning?” he asked, then stepped closer to me and sniffed my shirt collar. “And why the hell do you reek of sex? It’s coming off you in waves. I’ve never smelled you so turned on before.”
“That’s also none of your business,” I said, twirling back around and crossing my arms. “Now, point me in the direction of the tavern.”
