Page 20 of Huntress and the Thorn Court
“I’m aware.”
I groaned as he took the steps up to my room. “I don’t want Carla’s sex juice on me.”
“While you were deliberately avoiding looking at me, I cleaned up.”
“That doesn’t make it any better. You were still fucking Carla.Carla,” I emphasized.
He pursed his lips with a small shrug of his shoulder appearing uninterested. “She’s the highest ranking female. She wants the job.”
He was approaching my door. “And how would Carla feel if she knew you felt me up the other day?”
He glanced my way briefly before returning his focus forward. “As she’s nothing more to me than a convenient place to stick it, I don’t see what concern it is of hers. But by all means if you feel the need to tell her, I won’t stop you.”
I glared at him. If he hadn’t been holding me, I might have risked his wrath and hit him. “So she’s the next one in line?” I mumbled more to myself.
“What?”
“That’s what she told me. That there’s a line to sleep with you and I needed to get at the end of it.”
He halted focusing solely on me, stunning me by his immediate attention. “You talked to Carla about sleeping with me?”
“God no!” I gaped. “Shetalked to me.”
Shaking his head suddenly frustrated, he closed the distance to my door. Shifting my weight careful not to jolt me, he opened it.
He handled me like I was breakable as he settled me into my bed. “What happened?”
I groaned rolling my eyes because the story of my injury sounded ridiculous. “I strained it yesterday and that cot downstairs didn’t help matters. And what the hell was that about? You put me in a cage with no way to defend myself.”
He stood there listening to me babble patiently waiting for me to stop. “You done?” he asked and I nodded. “You’re off training for the next week.”
“A week?” I don’t know why I protested. I didn’t want to train the Omegas anyways. But when he went all dictator on me, it was a kneejerk reaction.
“As far as the cell, it’s the safest option I had in the moment. I will think of something for the next full moon, but I make no guarantees. You’re exhausted. Get some rest. I’ll check in on you later.”
I wanted to protest that it wasn’t necessary, but he shifted into my line of sight and I took him in in all of his glory. I did my best to keep my reaction off my face. Not only was his body a work of art, but he was also incredibly well endowed, and well-proportioned between length and girth. He turned when he reached the door and I briefly wondered if he was intentionally giving me a show.
When the door closed, I shook my head free of the images of him. I doubted he’d return. It was just something people say, right?
11
“Ithought I’d find you asleep?” Eleanor spoke, cracking open the door to my room.
“I’m exhausted but can’t sleep.” I kept seeing Gideon with Carla every time I closed my eyes and felt my hostility rise.
“Here.” She withdrew a metal canister from her pocket. Opening it, she extracted a single white pill. “It’s a muscle relaxer. I take half. They make me sleepy. But since sleep is what you want, I suggest the whole thing.”
“Thanks,” I said taking the pill from her. Popping it into my mouth, I swallowed it down with the juice she gave me.
“I heard you got an eye full earlier,” Eleanor stated handing me a small plate of French toast with scrambled eggs and extra crispy bacon. It was lunchtime, but I didn’t protest the breakfast plate.
I groaned, covering my face with my hands. “How?”
She smirked. “Carla was raving. Is it true that Gideon left with you?”
“You make it sound like it was romantic or something. He was screwing her on the furniture in the sitting room. Then against my protest, he brought me upstairs when my back started acting up. Ugh,” I shivered involuntarily in disgust. “There’s no accounting for taste on his part.” If he was interested in someone like Carla, then why the hell had he kissed me? No way were we anything alike.
“As far as tastes go, it’s not really a choice.”
