Page 42 of Moon Kissed

Nia cut me a sideways look. She heard their conversation just as clearly as I did, but I didn’t give her the pleasure of expressing my reaction.

“Use your head, Orion,” Edric said. “Just because we got that killer out of our school, doesn’t mean we were going to let Hall’s murderer go free. Did it penetrate your fucking skull that we could’ve done both!”

“Did it ever penetrate your skull about how it would look if a guy like me goes around giving false alibis and lying to help murderers!”

I winced. No, I’m going to bet it didn’t penetrate their skulls that they were putting Orion in a terrible position. I didn’t know the story of his father or the serial killer among the fire wolves, but I did know the toll it takes when you wake up one day and discover someone you love is a monster.

A sharp, derisive laugh hit my ears, and there was no trace of sympathy in it. “Real nice, Wheeler,” Badr mocked. “Of course this is all about your daddy issues.”

“You would fucking know, bastard.”

Flesh crunched cartilage, making me cringe. A roar, then one of them hit back. Curses and flying fists beat against my sensitive senses as the fight got worse, and my other fates waded in to stop it.

“Guys, let up!”

“Badr, get off of him!”

I just shook my head as we rounded the corner. That many alphas in one place and fights were inevitable. Honestly, I was surprised that after a year stuck together, they weren’t all a mess of crooked noses, missing teeth, and broken limbs.

“Get over it,” Orion bellowed. “It’s done!”

“It’s not done! You’re real fucking high up on that horse, pretending you’re too good to lie, but you lied to all our faces about what you and Volana were really doing in that detention room. You reek of her!”

“It— It’s not— It wasn’t like that! She just started taking off her clothes. What the hell was I supposed to do!”

“Uhh, not fuck her, for one.”

Nia’s face was flicking through every variation of shock and astonishment. Our little adventure in detention hall would be all over the school by morning.

“Don’t give me that, Nyx. All she did was touch you and you creamed your pants. You have no idea how hard I had to hold my wolf back. You have no idea how—how—howgoodher pussy tastes!”

Heat bloomed in my cheeks, and the fire was only stoked my Nia’s brows shooting up. Despite my colorful past, I didn’t have so much sexual experience with men to know how to handle it when they said things likethat.

Silence spread through the group. Until a tentative voice spoke up.

“How... How good does it taste?” Paxton asked.

Floor, if you want to open up and swallow me, that would be great.

“Like a cherry fucking sundae,” Orion ground out like the words physically pained him. “And her breasts are the perfect shape. Big enough to get a good handful while they smother you to heaven.”

Nia’s gaze had the audacity to flick off my face and travel down. I bared my teeth at her and she quickly looked away, but neither of us said anything. If we spoke, they would hear us, revealing that we could also hear them.

“And what else?” Nyx asked, hostility bleeding out of his voice.

“Her body is gorgeous.” It was all tumbling out of him. “Whatever you’ve been picturing, it’s a thousand times hotter. She looks so soft and breakable, but when you get ahold of her, it’s nothing but hard steel. She’ll more than take it when I pound that pussy—”

“Snap out of it,” Badr sliced in, saving my flaming cheeks. “You’re not pounding anyone’s pussy. None of us are. We’re letting the bonds die. We agreed.”

“Huh? Oh, yeah.” Orion sounded like he was coming out of a fog. “Right.”

“But why you?” Paxton demanded.And not mewas left out of his question, but I heard the subtext.

“And why didn’t you get the fuck out of there?” asked Badr.

“She said she would take off her clothes for every question I answered about myself. I had no choice.”

Murmurs of agreement and sympathy passed through the fivesome. They didn’t disagree in the slightest that getting my clothes off was the only rational choice in that situation.

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