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They took turns staying with me.
Too stuffed to breathe, I pry myself from Dutch’s heat. He clings until I smack his fingers. “Bathroom.”
Sighing, he releases my waist.
The round bed is so huge, it takes a few seconds to find the edge.
My socks land on clear glass.
Underneath, bright fish swim between vibrant corals.
The gentle lap of water tangles with Dutch’s rumble, and a scream echoes between my ears.
Swear to shit, Meadows Pack ganked my vision board.
I had a collage of honeymoon resorts, and those nests are spooky identical to the one where my sweaty feet fog the peekaboo panel into the sea.
Thick, navy fabric drapes the rounded walls, and delicate track-lights ring the base of the super-sized bed like strings of pearls. Dutch crawls after me. With his legs tangled in the dark sheets, his bare torso morphs into the top half of a jacked merman.
My pheromones are ominously silent.
Almost dormant.
Please say I didn’t leak.
I try to sniff myself, but I’m still wearing Reese’s wristbands, and all the same layers of alpha, minus Jin’s overcoat. That’s tossed over the lounge sofa in the pile of their discarded clothes.
I pop beads of cold sweat.
Taking Bishop’s drugs was monumentally shit-brained.
Pretending I didn’t almost kill the men I love on the fake heat honeymoon of my fantasies, I escape the nest through its only door.
The glass-bottomed hallway offers amenities on either side. Beverage station for mid-heat hydration, soaking tub, snack bar, group shower, and finally a private cubicle with a toilet.
Dutch races to follow me inside.
I block the door, but end up body-to-body with the blond merman in stretched boxers.
The fish below scatter, terrified of his bulge.
“Can you bring me my backpack?” I work to keep my voice even.
“I got you.” Dutch beams. “Be right back.”
While he trots off, happy to be given a task, I calmly lock the door. What’s left of my acting collapses.
I sag against the sink.
The girl in the mirror must be Serafina.
She can’t be me.
Rumpled doesn’t cover the mess.
My sleek ponytail morphed into a tangle of seaweed in the night, and my smoky eye is so mutilated, I’m cosplaying a skull. The contacts I forgot to take out left my eye-whites bloodshot and burning rabbit red.
And my scent.
