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Tempting, if true.
Too bad I like seeing my sister in chains. “What are you running from?”
“My soon-to-be-deceased fiancé taught me an expression. Bàn zhu chi laohu.”
My lip curls.
At what point was I supposed to learn Chinese?
At the orphanage?
After the third set of twins was born?
Maybe when the fosters yanked me from middle school so I could raise their kids full-time?
“Playing the pig to eat the tiger.” Serafina matter-of-factly tosses her ponytail over her chains. “It means pretending to be less than you are to win a fight. Oink too long and you’ll forget you have claws.”
I bunch my fists so tight, my nails slice my palms.
“Look what you can do,” Serafina presses. “Break me free. We’ll start a new family business. No parents. No brothers. Omega pussy power or whatever the hell you are. I don’t give a fuck as long as you get me out of town tonight.”
Commander Fissure clears her throat. “This girl is loyal to our organization.”
“This girl?” Serafina’s laughter trills. “You’re so fucked when she snaps. Come on, Stinkbug—”
My pheromones stab my jugular. “You don’t get to call me that.”
“And…they…do?” Serafina chokes, suffocating in my blown-out scent. “Have…some…fucking…pride.”
Pride is for socialites coddled by their daddies.
Not for girls like me—the ones they abandoned.
All I have left are my claws.
I have no problem finding the pointy ends when I wrap my hands around her throat. “Where is Nikolaj?”
Red-eyed and barely breathing, Serafina huffs a laugh. “What…waste—”
“Where?” I push and push, but Serafina doesn’t surrender.
Her jaw crunches tighter and tighter, her knuckles going whiter and whiter while foam slips through her mocking smile.
Makes me crazy.
I want to stand on her throat.
Force her to submit.
Make her pay for the audacity of asking me for favors, when I’ve lost everything because of her.
Before she passes out, her green eyes flash with something more complicated than hate.
Panting, I reel back my scent.
I almost cracked a rib and still got squat.
Serafina won’t break.
