Page 132 of Marked By the Pack
Emma pressed her lips together.
“What?”
“Well…if they don’t understand…are you willing to give it up for them?”
I’d had a lot of time to think about that last night. “Recently I’ve just been picturing them during my sessions anyway.” I mostly just hung out with Grudge. Or bombarded King with questions. “I’d give it up if they wanted me to. But I’m more worried that they’re going to dump me as soon as I tell them the truth. Titan seemed to think I was despicable.”
“Titan’s a little uptight.”
I laughed. “Yeah. But he knows his friends. And he clearly thinks they’re going to be upset about it. He wants to get rid of me. And I gave him his smoking gun.”
“It’s a good thing we’re robbing them tonight then. They’d never dump you after you present them with the cure they’ve been searching for.”
I sighed. “Maybe.”
“Definitely.”
“Even if they do understand and forgive me. Whether I keep camming or not…Titan will always hate me. Eventually that will weigh on his friends. They’re supposed to agree on stuff like this. And he wants me gone.”
Emma leaned forward. “Question for you. Say Bennett, Otto, Huxley, and Ace disappeared tomorrow. Without a trace. How would that make you feel?”
“I…I’d be heartbroken.” Honestly, I felt a little teary eyed just thinking about it. “I don’t want to lose them.”
She nodded. “That was exactly how I felt when Callum disappeared. You love them, Zoey. And you have to fight for what you love.”
“By stalking them for the next ten years?”
She threw the éclair at me.
I laughed and caught it.
“Rude. No. Don’t pull a me. Don’t let them go. Tell them how you feel. Rip off the Band-Aid of the camming thing. Just put it all out there.”
I groaned. “I was so excited for today and now my stomach is a pit of nerves.”
“Titan said you have until midnight, right? We’ll be out of the bank by then. Let’s focus on that. And then we can all ride off into the sunset happily ever after.”
“Happily ever after with four hot men.”
Emma laughed. “I honestly don’t know how you do it. One is plenty for me.”
“Are you sure you don’t want two? Because you can have Titan.”
“I don’t know…I think you kind of have a thing for him.”
Definitely not.“He’s the worst.”
She smiled. “See? You’re passionate about him.”
“I loathe him.”
“So the sex will be amazing.”
I rolled my eyes.
“Did you have fun with him last night before he took off his mask?”
“Ugh. No.”
