Page 68 of Their Promise

Leaning back, he smiled at me and said, “Scream my name, Lily.”

He shifted back, drawing my lower body up, and moving at a different angle that completely shattered me. I screamed his name as I came and just before he finished, he pulled out and came on the floor.

“Let’s detour by the car wash before we go home,” he said. “I need to clean that out as well as the scent evidence of what we’ve just done. Dad is supposed to use this SUV tomorrow and I don’t think either of us wants to explain to him what happened.”

I flushed, embarrassed. “No thank you.”

He chuckled and dropped his face down, burying his nose against my neck. “Are you okay? It feels like your skin has cooled?”

I nodded. “Thank you.”

He sat back and winked. “Anytime.”

Chapter

Seventeen

Nana Jolie and Great Aunt Leona sat across from me in Leona’s house. Both were stone still after I explained everything to them about the darkness, the anger, the bloodlust, and the trio. My face burned as I explained what had happened yesterday with Kayden, but I needed to explain how I’d watched my darkness bleed into his aura.

I had left out the demons and the necklace, not wanting to admit anything about that for now.

After almost thirty seconds of silence, Nana Jolie leapt from her couch to mine and hugged me tight while petting my hair. “You poor thing! I can’t believe you’ve kept this in for so long. Oh, baby!”

I would not cry. I would not cry. I would not cry!

She released me and Great Aunt Leona reached across to take one of my hands. “Sweetheart, I wish you had come to us sooner.”

“Honestly, it was realizing the guys had been infected that really sent things over the edge for me.”

“You’ve been struggling with this darkness on your own even though we told you to talk to us. Why?”

“It’s very rare that it gets out of hand,” I explained. “Like I said, I’m more worried about the guys.”

“Well, we know your darkness isn’t contagious or your family would have it as well,” Great Aunt Leona said. “Jolie and I would have it with how much we interacted with you after you absorbed the spell.”

Nana Jolie nodded her agreement.

“And the heat yesterday, that’s something females experience sometimes when surrounded by males during highly fertile times. It’s very rare to happen, but it can. You should be fine and not have to deal with it soon, but if you do, you definitely need to get away from any alphas you don’t trust,” Nana Jolie explained.

“Do you think there’s a way to remove the darkness from the trio?” The chance it would change their feelings for me were high, but I would deal with whatever repercussions there were so long as they were safe.

“We need to inspect one of them,” Nana Jolie said. “Do you know if any of them are available today?”

“I think they all went on a demon hunt this morning,” I said and pulled out my phone to check the group chat they had started. They’d said the group chat was necessary so I could notify all of them if I encountered demons and needed their help. I hadn’t argued. Messaging, I asked how the hunt was going. They immediately responded it was done and they were home. “They’re all home,” I answered.

“Let’s ask them all to come so we can inspect each of them,” Nana Jolie said. She turned to Great Aunt Leona and asked, “Do you want us to do this somewhere else?”

She shook her head. “Here is fine.”

“I’ll text them,” I said.

Me: Can you come to Great Aunt Leona’s?

Mason: Demons?

Me: No, not demons.

Trey: Is something wrong?

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