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I look into his eyes and see only eagerness in them. “I don’t want to date you.” I pause. “I don’t want to date anyone. I just want to get through the games to find Jenny.”

He holds his hands up. “It’s not a date. Just dinner. I promise not to try anything on.”

I find myself relenting, if only to get him to leave my room. It might not be the worst thing in the world. If I can get through the last two trials without shattering, I can handle a dinner.

When I close the door behind him, I flop down on the bed. Once again, Dade has treated me to one of the most intense experiences of my life and I’m going out with Remy.

18

PERVERTED THINGS

QUINN

“Holy shit, girl. You blew Felix?” I don’t think I’ve ever seen Juliette more animated as she grills Rowena over lunch the next day.

Rowena shrugs and I can’t believe how complacent she’s being. “It wasn’t my finest hour. I had to. His dick was like a fourth of July firework and I was scared it was going to go off and literally kill me.”

“Damn!” Juliette comments, a wry grin on her face. “So you decided to make it go off for him. You should have bitten it clean off after all the shit he’s put you through.”

“I did think about it,” she admits, “but I decided I didn’t like the idea of bits of his dick getting stuck in my teeth.”

I shrivel up my nose at the picture of Felix’s dismembered… member.

“Besides, I was worried Noémi would throw me out of the games if I murdered my partner, so I figured it was better to keep him alive than having him bleed out.”

“Did you swallow?”

Another gross image pops into my mind at Juliette’s question and I have to take a sip of the champagne someone left in front of me.

Rowena’s cheeks turn pink. “I made him think I did.”

A crevice appears between Juliette’s eyes. “What do you mean?”

“He started to cum so pulled back after getting a bit in my mouth. He came so hard he hit his own face with it. Then I made him a juice and spit his own cum in it, hiding it with ice.”

“You didn’t,” Juliette chokes out laughing.

Rowena’s lips turn up at the edges. “Yeah, I did. He drank the whole lot down.”

“But how could you?” I say, trying not to choke on the bubbles as Juliette wipes tears of laughter from her eyes. “Wasn’t it gross?”

“Gross?” Maggie pipes up from the next table. I know she’s not the only one who's been listening to our conversation. Since the second part of the first trial, Juliette seems to have become even more popular, and even Rowena has acquired some fans. I doubt all the people who've chosen to sit in our part of the restaurant are here for me.

“The dude is heavenly,” Maggie gushes. “I’d suck him off even if my place in the games didn’t depend on it.” She mouths the words ‘not really babe’ at Colin, who’s sitting a couple of tables away and rolling his eyes. She gives us all a thumbs up then walks back to her table.

“How does she even know?” I mutter.

“Babe! Everyone knows,” Juliette responds with enthusiasm, a mischievous glint in her eyes. She gestures around at the bustling crowd of people seated near us, as if to emphasize her point. “Why do you think we are suddenly so popular?”

I get a faintly queasy sensation in my stomach. “I didn’t know until I came down for lunch.”

“She watched the video playback on the big screen after she came out of the Earthery.” Rowena sniffs.

My mouth falls open in astonishment, and I turn my gaze towards Juliette. “You actually stayed around to watch that?”

Juliette shrugs. “I wanted to scope out the competition, that’s all.”

My mouth goes dry as I try to imagine my best friend watching what transpired in the Earthery and I’ve never been so glad that Dade chose to manacle himself to the wall.

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