Kings of Quarantine (Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep #1) - Caroline Peckham ,Susanne Valenti Page 0,14

like her is gonna want the top dog, sorry asshole.”

“Bullshit. She wants someone who can make her laugh, not a dipshit who doesn’t know to loosen his tie,” he goaded. “Besides, when did I ever agree that you were top dog?”

“You don’t need to agree, I just am,” I said dismissively and he bristled.

“Maybe she wants a man who will tie her to his bedposts and fuck her so hard she can’t walk straight the next day,” Kyan added in a low tone which made both of us pause.

I turned to him with an eyebrow raised. “Seriously?” I asked. “You wanna fuck a rich girl now?”

“First time for everything,” he said, his gaze sliding over the new girl in a way that told me he really was considering it.

“A nice girl like her won’t wanna mix it with you,” Blake taunted him. “She wants the golden boy.”

“Naw,” Kyan disagreed. “She’s no nice girl.”

“You haven’t even said one word to her,” Blake scoffed.

“Don’t have to, she has that look in her eye.” Kyan shrugged like that was an actual thing and I snorted a laugh.

“Whatever fuckers, the girl won’t look twice at either of you once she sees me,” I said cockily.

“Want a bet?” Kyan asked, tearing his gaze from the temptation in the room to offer me a taunting grin.

“We don’t need a bet,” Blake said irritably. “I told you, she’s mine.”

“You can’t just claim people, asshole,” I replied.

“Fine. I get first shot at her then,” he countered.

“How do you figure that out?” I asked.

“Because my mom is dead,” he said simply.

“That’s cold, man,” Kyan said, snorting a laugh.

Blake had started using that shit right after he’d snapped out of his grief. He wasn’t fooling either of us. He’d loved his mom and he was devastated when she caught the fucking Hades Virus. She’d been on a cruise to Hawaii right around the time when the cases there started exploding.

It turned out there was one or two things money couldn’t buy after all. And a cure to Hades was one of them. They didn’t name it after the god of the dead for no reason. I was just glad that we were holed up here away from all that shit. Everlake Prep was basically in isolation without even trying. The only place even remotely close to here was the town of Murkwell and that was still ten miles out. Beyond that, you had to drive fifty miles to find anyone else.

Who knew being shipped off to the middle of nowhere would come in so handy?

For the moment, the virus was mostly contained to certain hotspots around the world, but it was obvious it was going to continue spreading globally.

Blake hadn’t even been able to go and visit his mom to say goodbye. He’d had to do it over FaceTime, watching through a screen as day by day it ravaged her body and finally stole her away from him for good. Shit like that had to sting. But he wasn’t letting it show. And if that was how he wanted to play it, then I wasn’t going to call him out on it. His grief was his own.

“The truth hurts,” Blake said with a shrug. “But it’s still the truth. And I need to bury myself ten inches deep in Tatum Rivers to try and forget it.”

“More like eight inches,” Kyan mocked, his gaze turning back to Tatum.

Tatum. Yeah, I could hear myself growling that name as I lost myself between her thighs.

“Are you seriously interested in her?” I asked, glancing at Kyan. He was as unpredictable as the damn wind, but he’d never fucked a girl from school before so it seemed unlikely.

He ran a hand over his stubble as he watched her for another minute before shaking his head. “Naw. Not worth the drama if she can’t handle what I want from a girl.”

I rolled my eyes at him and looked back at Blake instead. He was giving me the cocky fucker mask and I sighed dramatically.

“Fine. You get one free shot at the initiation party. I’ll keep it in my pants until then. But after that, all bets are off,” I said as my gaze drank in the sight of the new girl again. All of that blonde hair would look really damn good knotted in my fists while I fucked her mouth.

“Trust me, brother. I only need one shot,” Blake said with a smirk.

He might have been right, but that was okay. He could take her for