Cruel Wolves and Devious Deceptions: An Enemies to Lovers Supernatural Academy Romance (Blood and Magic : Hellbound Book 3) by Danielle Annett

Author:Danielle Annett [Annett, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Coffee and Characters
Published: 2021-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

12

Desmond

Zheng’s riding the line again, his beast fighting him from the inside to break free. He isn’t sleeping and he’s jumping at loud sounds. I know what’s coming and I’m trying to head it off, but the asshole standing in front of me isn’t making that easy.

“Bro, we had a deal?”

Zheng throws on his leather jacket and swipes his keys off the table, heading for the front door.

“I’m not going to do anything stupid,” he assures me, but we both know that’s a lie.

“You heard what the doc—”

His jaw clenches. “I’m going to live my life. Okay? Can you get on board with that, man?”

I grind my teeth together. This is a bad idea, and he knows it. His beast is fighting for control and going out right now is a bad fucking idea, but I can see by the look in his eyes I don’t have a shot in hell of talking him out of it. I never do. Not when he gets like this.

Liu is a walking, talking stick of dynamite just waiting to explode. When we were kids, he was always a self-destructive shit, but adult Zheng is on a whole ‘nother level. We’ve all got baggage, but the shit Zheng needs to unpack is traumatic as fuck, and I only know the half of it. But we made a deal. I’m not about to let him weasel out of it.

“When you stop being a lying sack of shit, maybe.” I shrug and wait to see how he responds. It can go one of two ways. Brotherhood will get the better of him and he’ll back down. Nine and a half times out of ten, he’s true to his word, and he hates being called a liar. Addicts are liars, and Zheng refuses to be one of them like his human father.

I see the flicker in his eyes. The moment of hesitation at my words and then… fuck. There’s that other half. The times when he decides not to give a fuck because he’s too far up his own ass to think straight and his beast is riding him too hard that he can’t even hear the voice of reason.

“Zheng—”

“You know me,” he says, and there’s a plea in his voice, so I nod. “You know I’ve been clean. For two years I’ve stayed clean. No missteps. I’ve stayed on the fucking wagon, man.”

“I know.” Which is why what he’s doing now is pissing me off. Drugs shouldn’t affect shifters, but fae ones do and Zheng had a tumble with them none of us wants a repeat of. He nearly went rogue while on the stuff, and if he had, we would have lost him to his beast. There’s no coming back from that, not when you give in to your animal so completely that you lose your humanity in the process.

It’s like he forgot what the first year getting clean was like. The depression. The withdrawals. He was so fucking sick back then he had to take a full semester off.

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