Kings of Quarantine (Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep #1) - Caroline Peckham ,Susanne Valenti Page 0,91

really did groan. But before I could consider whether or not my word meant shit, she was gone, climbing out of the hot tub like we hadn’t been five seconds away from me fucking her ‘til sunrise.

“I’ve warmed up now,” she said in a cool tone which didn’t even acknowledge what had just happened. “Can I go back to my dorm or do you have more demands to make?”

She pulled on the hoodie and sweatpants I’d brought for her without removing her wet underwear and tied her wet hair in a knot on the back of her head.

I stood slowly, climbing out behind her with water running over my body and my boxers clinging to my cock so that she could see every single inch of it as she turned back to look at me.

“I can walk you back,” I offered.

“Is that a command?” she asked icily.

“No.”

“Then I’ll pass.” She grabbed her dripping wet school uniform from the floor and stalked away from me without so much as a glance at my dick and I blew out a breath which was part frustration and part laugh.

There was a warrior living in Tatum Rivers’ flesh, and I for one was glad we hadn’t destroyed her.

I woke the next morning with a nightmare curling around my body like a wraith. And no matter how hard I tried to push it away, it held onto me with razor sharp talons. I’d been swimming in the lake then something had grabbed my ankle from below and dragged me under and under, my lungs burning, aching. But when I’d thought my last breath would come, I stayed alive. Suffering at the bottom of the lake, but unable to get free.

I shuddered as I slipped out of bed, finding Mila sitting cross legged on her covers staring over at me. She was already dressed in her uniform and her hair was woven into an intricate braid that must have taken her a long time to perfect. I’d been so exhausted from last night, I’d slept past my alarm and I groaned as I rubbed my eyes.

Flashes of the beach awaited me the second my eyes closed and my heart thumped out of rhythm. The three of them staring at me with their painted bodies and demonic smiles, the raging storm, the icy cold that had drilled into my bones, the tears which had tracked down my cheeks. Then Kyan had come like a monster out of the lake, but he hadn’t hurt me like I’d expected. I wasn’t in the least bit fooled by his act of ‘kindness’ though. He just didn’t want his pet to die. Then he wouldn’t have anything to kick when he needed an outlet.

“Tatum?” Mila asked like she was scared of me. Or for me maybe. I couldn’t be sure.

I gave her a half smile as I dropped my hand from my face. “Yeah it’s me. Not a zombie. Despite this.” I gestured to my general appearance. My hair was sticking up everywhere in my periphery and I had no doubt my eyes were red and dark circles hung beneath them. Turns out, you don’t sleep well after you sell your soul to the devil. Or devils as the case may be.

She didn’t crack a smile and my heart twisted uncomfortably. She would have seen the video. Shit, no doubt Blake would have made sure every student at Everlake saw that video. I tried not to let in the shame as I thought of how scared I’d been, how broken. I still felt that way in part. Still felt shattered and small. But in the cold light of day where I couldn’t see any of my new owners, the flame of my strength was rekindling. It didn’t blaze yet, but I was sure as hell gonna stoke it until it did.

I wasn’t going to be ruined by three boys with a small dick complex. Although, that didn’t quite fit the bill from the out of this world sex I’d had with Blake, and from the swell of Kyan’s monster cock between my thighs last night. Taunting him had restarted the fire in me, it had given me an inch of control back. Something I was going to latch onto with an iron grip, and shit, I was gonna use my teeth to hang onto it too, because I was not going to fall apart, no matter how much it felt like I was about to.

“Did they hurt you?” Mila asked, not