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Thorn and Thegan whooped from the sidelines, their voices rising above the cheers of the crowd. Letting their support spur her on, Victoria dropped into a crouch and swept Bree’s legs out from under her, just like she had with Thorn, sending her falling back to the ground with a yelp.

Scrambling forward before she could recover and get up, Victoria straddled her prone form and cocked her fist back threateningly.

“Yield?” she demanded through panting breaths, winded more from adrenaline than actual exertion.

Eyes narrowed and nostrils flared, Bree hesitated but, after a second, nodded wordlessly.

Oh, thank fuck.

The crowd erupted. Pretending she wasn’t shaking like a leaf, Victoria returned her nod and got to her feet then held out a hand to help Bree up, shocked it was actually over that quickly. To her surprise, the woman accepted the offered hand.

“Good fight,” Victoria offered, then promptly turned and walked off before her legs gave out beneath her.

Spotting Aria standing at the edge of the crowd, Victoria’s steps faltered, but instead of berating her for fighting like she feared, Aria winked and smiled approvingly, making Victoria’s chest swell with pride.

Chapter 33

Victoria was halfway to the lab they’d repurposed to act as a locker room where people could clean up and heal after training when the sound of footsteps caught her attention.

Half convinced it was Bree coming after her for a little retribution for kicking her ass in front of everybody, Victoria spun around only for the breath to whoosh out of her when she saw it was actually Thorn and Thegan.

Grinning widely, she gushed, “Oh my gosh! Did y’all see that? I totally kicked her ass! And Aria saw it! She winked at me!Me! I don’t think I’ve ever felt so-so… terrified and absolutely badass at the same time!”

Finally noticing the intent looks on their faces and the purple flush coloring the base of their horns, her words stumbled to a stop. Elation turned to concern. Had something happened after she left?

“Er, are y’all okay?”

Neither answered. Instead, Thorn’s steps quickened, outpacing Thegan.

“Uhh, Thorn?”

That was all she could get out. Without slowing down or breaking eye contact, he scooped her up into his arms, turned to pin her against the wall, and slammed his mouth down on hers.

Shock held her still for half a second before he speared his tongues into her mouth and proceeded to kiss her like he was starving. White-hot need flooded her, overpowering everything else.

Moaning deeply, her eyes fell shut, her hands moved to fist his hair, thoroughly mussing his bun, and her legs wrapped around his waist. Holding onto him like her life depended on it, she returned his kiss with matching fervor.

Victoria had just forced the fingers of one hand to uncurl from his hair—intending to grope for the button on his jeans, free his cock, and somehow figure out how to get out of her pants so she could wiggle her way down onto it without uncoiling her legs or breaking away from his mouth—when arms came out of nowhere and snatched her away.

Gasping in surprise, she barely had time to pry her eyes open before Thegan was there. Fisting her hair, he craned her head back and took her parted lips with a growl and hunger to rival Thorn’s.

Still surprised at the snatching, but totally okay with it so long as he kept kissing her, she melted into him.

Victoria was barely aware of the needy little sounds she was making as she wrapped her arms around his neck, trying not to spontaneously combust at the ferocity with which he ravaged her mouth.

Could someone orgasm from a kiss? Because she was pretty sure she was about to.

Unfortunately, before the tingles sparking warningly in her fingers and toes could coalesce into the miniature, but still anticipated, orgasm she just knew was coming, Thegan pulled away with a groan and chuckled breathlessly.

“Gods’ wrath, female, that was magnificent!”

Whaa? No, it wasn’t! You stopped before I got to the magnificent part!

Thankfully, she only said that in her head because he kept going, “The way you took her down! And so quickly!”

Smiling weakly when he set her on her feet, trying to act like she wasn’t utterly dumbfounded, painfully turned on, and unreasonably close to tears from having her orgasm denied, she returned his laugh with a breathless, very confused one of her own.

Inside her head, however, she was yelling,What. The. Hell? How are they so… so… not dying of need?

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