Page 48 of Pretty Little Lies

“I’m just telling you what I think.”

“That stupid little prick has tried so many times to take me out andmissed.”

“Focus.” You better do something to get them over here.

“This is so fucking stupid.”

I respond back with a semi-hard punch to his ribs for good measure and sneer, “It wasyouridea. And we can’t go back now.”

Levi’s expression is full of irritation, but we both know this is the only way. “I’m going to ask for forgiveness later.” I give hima small nod, waiting for him to step back and let me have it when he doesn’t move.

“Are we going to do this now or—” Levi’s mouth slams into mine with so much ferocity that it takes my breath away. I fight back from grabbing onto his white t-shirt and seeing how far this will go now that he’s initiated it, but that’s not what we’re here for.

However, Levi isn’t making it easy when his tongue slides easily enough between my lips and the forming whimper that almost breaks free from my throat.

Break this, Bay. This isn’t real.

My foot comes off the ground before my knee slams right into Levi’s junk. Instantaneously, he breaks the kiss and bows over, but he doesn’t release my hair.

“Geezus,” he growls out, seething air through his teeth before turning up his face to look up at me again. “You’re the only woman I would let do this to me,knowthat.”

And that’s when his free hand begins undoing the button of my jeans.

I jerk back on instinct, feeling the roots to my hair being tugged from my scalp and I reach for his hand that’s causing the pain. That’s when I kick his shins and he retaliates when he kicks out one of my ankles from underneath me and causes me to lose balance, falling to my knees with a hard thud.

Right in front of his cock.

“Youprick,” I snap, face angled up at him with slitted eyes. I didn’t have to fake that emotion too much. It actually hurt.

Levi’s palm falls to the back of skull, prompting the idea of me going down on him in front of everyone here—kids included.

“Incoming,” Hot Rod recites at the exact moment Levi bends over me, lips levitating over mine. “Kiss Ellie and Mae for me. And don’t defend me. No matter what happens.”

His tongue licks along the seam of my mouth, tempting the line again when he’s suddenly yanked back and disappears from my line of sight.

The scene in front of me is chaos.

Torin throwing a punch into the side of Juice’s head. Cairo staring off at Hot Rod and Reevie…He’s gone full-blown rage on my best friend turned villain.

I think they bought it.

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The moment Wallacesnatches Bay by her hair, I have to mom-arm Reeve to keep him from storming over there and causing a fight.

This scene needs to play out. And there’s no reason why any of us should get involved, because she’s just a girl.

A girl who got involved with a king who doesn’t need to play nice if he doesn’t want to. One who doesn’t need to have my boys with their balls wrapped around their fingers.

Torin, surprisingly, hasn’t moved, but he hasn’t taken his eyes off her either.

“Drop your arm, brother,” Reeve seethes at my side like a rabid dog. “Or I’m gonna break it.”

“Stand down,” I order flatly. “This isn’t our war.”

“That’s mygirl,” he spits back, shoving at my forearm, but I continue to hold it up to keep him from making a mistake.

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