Kings of Quarantine (Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep #1) - Caroline Peckham ,Susanne Valenti Page 0,177

messing it up until it looked like she’d just woken up from a night filled with fucking. Perfect.

I turned away from her and grabbed one of Saint’s black shirts from the rack before hanging it in the middle of the white section. Next, I opened his cufflink drawer and swapped three of the boxes around.

“He’s gonna lose the plot when he finds that,” Tatum breathed and her voice was rough with excitement as her blue eyes danced with energy.

“That’s the point, baby, you wanna join me?”

She only hesitated for a moment before hurrying to my side and taking a pair of his sweatpants from the perfectly piled stack. She turned them inside out, folded them perfectly again and slipped them back into the pile beneath another pair.

“Are you as wet for me as I am hard for you right now?” I teased, watching her as she fucked with the demon who owned her like she wasn’t afraid for her life. Or maybe she was but she just knew the thrill of it was worth the consequences like I did.

“Probably, but I’m still not adding sex to our deal.”

Her response surprised me so much that a real laugh tore from my lips. She looked up at me with a laugh of her own and I was seriously tempted to test her resolve on that decision. But I was more tempted to see more of what she was like when she was breaking the rules.

“C’mon my little rebel. We’ve got a date to attend.” I picked up the clothes she’d taken off and tossed them in the laundry basket so that Saint wouldn’t know she’d been in here too easily before hurrying back out onto the balcony and down the stairs with Tatum on my heels.

We crossed the living room but before we made it past the couch, Tatum shrieked and stumbled backwards.

I turned to look at her in confusion as she leapt up onto the couch and pointed at the floor. “Holy shit, look at that thing!”

I followed her arm and spotted the huge spider scuttling across the flagstones, a laugh bursting from my lips as I realised what had gotten her all skittish.

“Don’t tell me you can fuck with Saint’s perfect closet without pissing yourself, but at the sight of a little spider you shit your pants?” I teased.

“Shut up and get rid of it!” she demanded and I arched a brow at her tone.

“Bossy much?”

“For fuck’s sake, Kyan, please.” She aimed those big blues at me and for some reason I was tempted to give in to her request.

“What do I get for rescuing you?” I asked, my gaze sliding over her in those leather pants.

“What do you want?” she ground out, giving me a look that said I was an asshole, but I’d made my peace with that a long time ago.

“A kiss,” I said, eyeing her lips for a lingering moment as I smirked at her.

She snorted a breath of frustration, her eyes flicking to the spider which was headed her way again. “Fine,” she snapped, “Just get rid of it!”

“Your wish is my command.” I gave her a mocking bow and headed over to deal with the little fucker. And to be fair it was a pretty big beasty.

The thing was fast, scuttling away from me in a bid to escape but I managed to catch it on my third attempt, cupping it between my hands as it scrambled to get free.

“Don’t kill it,” she exclaimed like she thought I was about to crush the little thing.

“Why would I kill it?”

“I just assumed…I mean you beat the shit out of people for fun, so…”

I rolled my eyes at her and she held her breath as I crossed the room and dutifully tossed it outside. “I kick the shit out of people who deserve it or who want me to. I’m not gonna kill some little spider for no reason.”

“You care about its life?” The surprise in her big blues was kinda offensive, but I guessed that maybe she had good reason to have a low opinion of me. Hell, most people had good reason to have a low opinion of me.

“I care about its life more than I do about most people’s,” I granted her as I kicked the door shut again. “Animals aren’t capable of evil so they don’t deserve any from me.”

“That’s…unexpected,” she said, tilting her head as she looked at me in a wholly different way than usual.

I stalked closer to her, having