How To Be Deadly (Rebel Heart Book 4) by Trina M. Lee

Author:Trina M. Lee [Lee, Trina M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Mountain Books
Published: 2018-01-04T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

We ordered a late-night pizza when we got back to my place. Nobody had much of an appetite though. We picked at our food and tried to make casual conversation, but the effort fell flat.

Coming home to find the apartment empty had been not only disappointing but alarming. It just wasn’t like Cinder not to show. The last thing I wanted was to jump to conclusions, but worry took my mind to terrible places.

Gathered in the living room with the TV on low more for distraction than entertainment, the five of us existed in a constant state of turmoil and tension. Jett and Sam huddled close together on one end of the couch. Rowen sat on the opposite end looking extremely uncomfortable. I occupied my favorite spot on the big easy chair with Arrow perched on its wide arm beside me. He seemed especially careful not to touch me, but it didn’t matter now. Rowen had already witnessed what I had yet to understand myself.

As the clock ticked into the wee hours of the morning, I felt increasingly guilty. And tired. So friggin’ tired.

“I guess we should probably try to get some sleep. I have zero appetite.” Jett picked a piece of mushroom from her pizza and eyed it suspiciously. “Spike and I can crash in her room, and the three of you can battle over the couch bed.”

That seemed to be the safest way to handle the sleeping arrangements. I fetched extra blankets and pillows from the hall closet. “Feel free to grab anything you want from the kitchen. If you guys need us, you know where to find us.” The mental exhaustion was greater than the physical, and I was ready to retreat to the solitude of my bedroom.

“But try not to need us,” Jett quipped. She lingered to give Sam a kiss that would definitely have him needing her and then bounded off to the bedroom behind me.

I flopped onto the bed. Cramming both fists into my eyes, I groaned and might have even bit back a frustrated screech.

Jett plopped down next to me and grabbed a lock of my hair. “What a fucking night, huh?”

“Something like that.” I stared up at her from where I lay in the middle of the bed. “This shit is never going to get any easier, is it?”

“What? The demon shit or the having to choose between two brothers shit?” She twisted the black lock she held into a fishtail braid.

“Both, but I mostly meant the demon shit. Don’t even get me thinking about the other thing.” Suddenly paranoid I lowered my voice, afraid of being heard through the door. I could hear the guys talking in the living room. They weren’t listening but that didn’t matter.

Jett stared down at the braid she twisted, head cocked to one side in contemplation. “You know it’s all tied together, right? The demons, the brothers. It’s all part of you now. And you’ve got this. There’s nothing you can’t handle, Spike.”

Ah, best friends. The world would be a much darker place without them.

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