Page 57 of Shadow Bonds

My left eye twitches. “Was that supposed to be your way of an apology?”

He watches me for a moment before slowing releasing a long-drawn-out breath. “Fine,” he grits out. “What do I have to do to make it up to you?”

A sliver of excitement rushes through me as the balance of power between us finally tilts in my favor.

Keeping my smug smile to myself, I sit down on the end of my bed and cross my legs. “Crawl,” I tell him, and his eyes narrow to slits.

“Get on your knees, and crawl to me. Beg for forgiveness for your shitty attitude and asshole-ish ways andmaybeI’ll forgive you.” I give him a wicked smile. There’s no way he’s going to?—

He throws off his top, gives me a smirk that makes my toes curl, and then gets on his knees before slowly making his way over to me. I nearly swallow my god-damn tongue at the dark heated look he gives me as he crawls toward me.

“I’m always going to be an asshole, baby.” He places a kiss on my leg, and every sane thought quickly flees my brain. He places another on my knee and then thigh, his eyes never leaving mine. “That’s not something that will ever change.”

His eyes grow dark with lust, making some deranged part of me excited.

“But I promise you, you’ll enjoy every minute of it.”

When my senses finally return to me, and I snap out of the little heated daze he’s dragged me under, I crawl back onto the bed and he quickly follows, sliding in behind me. His hand curves around my waist, and he drags me back to his front.

His hand keeps moving, sliding up my body and under my top to my breast. I don’t stop him because I’m actually enjoying the feel of his touch and the way his body is curled around mine.

“Just holding what’s mine,” he says with a throaty rasp to his voice. He gets comfortable and just… leaves his hand right there.

“How I am I supposed to sleep like this?” Especially when he’s making me wet and doing nothing about it.

“Same way we all have,” he says and presses a kiss to my shoulder and then bites it, making me gasp before licking the spot. “With plenty of cold showers.”

“Your family should be arriving soon,” Malakai says as soon as I walk downstairs.

I pause as a bolt of shock rushes through me, “I have a family?” Technically, I knew it was a possibility, but with everything going on, I just forgot about it.

They all freeze and look at me.

“Shit, you really don’t remember,” Knox says, and I glare at him.

He clears his throat. “I mean… I don’t know… I just thought you’d remembersomething.”

“Well, I don’t. Do I have siblings?” I glance between then all. “Are my parents… nice?”

The guys share a hesitant look between them, but it’s Knox who answers. “One brother. And from what we’ve seen, they’ve always been nice to you.”

I read between the lines and the passed looks they share. Meaning they haven’t been nice tothem.

I already don’t like them. That and they seem to have raised a spoiled brat.

“How are they getting here?” I ask.

“Portal to the main building,” Cyrus says biting into his apple. And even though his lips give me far too many ideas, my stomach is empty, and all I can think about is getting to the canteen to grab something to eat.

Wait…His reply finally filters past my foggy brain. “Portal?” I ask.

Malakai chuckles at me. “One that’s heavily guarded on both sides. You need a pass just to get in.”

I frown, and he laughs harder. “We should start working with your ability,” he says, and it takes me a minute to figure out what he’s talking about.

“The shield?”

Malakai nods. “You should also start learning how to call on our weapons, just in case.”

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