Diamonds and Demons by Kim Faulks & Mila Young

Author:Kim Faulks & Mila Young [Faulks, Kim & Young, Mila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-31T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Yielding To The Alpha

I could feel it...that twinge inside my chest. I washed and scrubbed, lathered my hair and then rinsed, and every time I touched the middle of my chest I felt that buzz....

Something was in there...something that wasn’t just a remnant of a dream. I dried, ran a comb through my hair and dressed. When I stepped out of my room I spotted Ava talking to Chuck, murmuring in a low voice, standing way too close.

“You ready.” I glanced toward Nesrin’s door out of habit.

“Good to go.” Ava turned and then winced. She raised a hand and shoved a fist against her chest and let out the biggest belch I’d ever head. Chuck’s eyes widened before his hand slipped into his coat pocket.

“Sorry,” Ava muttered. “Demon.” As though that one world explained everything.

“Here.” Chuck peeled off two small white tablets from a roll. “These will settle your stomach.”

Ava smiled and looked up at him like he’d just goddamn proposed.

I rolled my eyes and headed for the stairs, taking two at a time before I pushed through the dorm doors.

“Hey,” Ava called, crunching on whatever Chuck had given her. “What’s got you all riled up?”

I stopped dead in the middle of the pathway. Other students walked past, some turned and stared. I wanted to bare my fangs and hiss at them. I wanted to be the kind of primitive Vampire they expected with a name like Livingstone. But I did none of that. I sucked in a hard breath, feeling that burn inside my chest and tried to find the words. “I fucked up.”

She picked at something her teeth and cocked her head. “What did you do?”

Tell her. The need raged inside me. I had to tell someone. I had to get this...burden out of my damn chest. “I kissed Nero.”

“So?” She shook her head.

“No, you don’t understand. I kissed Nero and Judas saw, and now he’s upset ‘cause I broke some stupid pack rule, and I feel like shit about it.”

“Did you want to kiss him?” she asked.

I thought about it for a second, and I thought about him. I hadn’t really given him much thought before, or Bond for that matter. It’s just been the Wolves. The three of them went everywhere together. The three of them were always inside my head. But yesterday they weren’t. Yesterday it was just Nero, and we’d laughed together, we’d been horrified together, we’d protected each other. Did I like him? “Yes, yes I did.”

“Then I fail to see the problem here. If there’s a pack law that’s been broken then that’s not your concern. You’re not part of the pack.”

But I want to be. The words raced through my head.

“Then if you want to be, make it work. Mend whatever hearts need mending, kiss whoever needs kissing and be done with it.”

“Wait...you heard me say that? That I wanted to be?” I stared at her in disbelief.

“Ah, yeah.” She raised both brows. “You said it plain as day.”

I’d thought it.

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