Page 73 of Marked By the Pack
“I don’t. Photography is definitely my only artistic outlet. I’m actually painting a house. A house Callum and I bought together,” I added. I don’t know why. It was like I was rubbing it in his face.
“Oh,” he said again.
I really wasn’t good at having guy friends. I cleared my throat. “I have a huge problem.”
“With Callum?”
“No.” Again, it came out way too defensively. Especially since I was here to get answers from Bennett. It was just…the last time I was in Bennett’s office he was going down on me. And Titan was watching. And now I knew my face was flushing.Stop thinking about that!“Zoey knows your secret. The guys showed her. And for some reason I still can’t talk to her about it. I thought once she knew I’d be able to speak freely about it like I do with Callum. What are the rules for this thing?”
I lifted my hand and pointed to the cut on my palm. They’d really cut me with that blood oath. It was like it was never going to heal. “Because I keep choking whenever I want to have a serious discussion with Zoey about you guys.”
Bennett finally smiled.
“What? It’s not funny. That shit hurts. I can barely breathe.”
His smile grew.
Not funny!“Zoey is really caught up with Otto, Huxley, and Ace. And honestly, I’m a little surprised you didn’t tell me that you’re into orgies.”
He laughed. “Emma, you let me finger you on a Ferris wheel. In front of the whole town. And you didn’t seem to mind when Titan watched as I ate you out right on this desk.”
I opened my mouth and then closed it again. “I did not like that.”
“I think you kind of liked that.”
“I’m not into threesomes. Or…sixsomes? I don’t even think there’s a term for that. And I want to be able to talk to Zoey about more than just her wild sex life. But it’s all she wants to talk about. Even when I bring up your secret, she changes the topic to gangbangs.”
Bennett’s smile was growing by the second. “See? You do have a word for it.”
“Bennett!”
He just kept smiling. “And I know she keeps talking about that.”
“She’s talking about it with you too?”
“A bit. This morning. You can’t talk to her about my secret because she thinks it’s the sex thing. She doesn’t know about the other thing.”
“Oh.”Oooooh. Oh my God.That made so much sense. I laughed, remembering how insulted she was that I said Bennett and his friends were barely even human.Wow. Okay. Yeah.
“Yeah. A little bit of a misunderstanding. But I know I put you in a bad spot. I’m going to show her tonight.”
“You are?” I remembered standing in this bank seeing it. And now Zoey was going to witness it too. “Do you still have the pocket watch?”
Bennett pulled it out of his desk. “It’ll be fine.”
I pressed my lips together. Would it though? I knew he insisted that the pocket watch helped control them, but they didn’t seem at all in control when I saw them. Otto had tried to kill me.
“It’ll be fine,” he said again.
“Okay.” It’s not like I could tell him not to show Zoey. Zoey needed to know. I needed to be able to talk to her about all this. But God, it all made sense now. Why she kept insisting Callum was dangerous and Otto wasn’t. I was pretty sure I had been telling her for days that foursomes were dangerous. She probably thought I was a judgmental bitch. I owed her an apology.
“Okay,” Bennett said.
We both just awkwardly stared at each other for a moment.
Bennett cleared his throat. “So…how have you been?”
“I’m good.” I smiled. Yeah, this was awkward. “How was your trip? Was it like a work thing? Or…for fun?”
