Make Me Queen: A Dark Enemies to Lovers College Romance (Rich Demons of Darkwood Book 5) by C.R. Jane & May Dawson

Author:C.R. Jane & May Dawson [Jane, C.R. & Dawson, May]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-22T16:00:00+00:00

17

AURORA

I tossed the arm onto the table, and they both stared at it in shock.

“What the fuck, Aurora?” snarled Stellan, lurching away from it. Cain just stared at it in that calculated way of his.

“The Demon wasn’t getting enough attention. I needed to get him in the headlines, make him a top priority.”

“So you chopped someone’s arm off?” Stellan asked, his face a bit green.

“You killed those people,” Cain murmured, his head cocked to the side. It said a lot for what Stellan thought of me that it wasn’t the first thing that had popped into his mind.

“I did,” I agreed. “I figured it made sense for our relationship for me to be honest about that.”

I’d never seen Stellan look so shocked in my life. Even if he never talked to me again after this, remembering his reaction would be amusing.

"I'm going to go take a shower so you boys can decide if you're good with this latest development," I threw over my shoulder as I stalked out of the room. I’d been honest. That counted for something.

But the way that they’d looked at me.

Disgust.

That's what I'd seen in their gazes. That's what I'd seen in their thoughts.

Was I going to be alone again? I’d done it before. I could do it again.

But unlike when I escaped the Demon that first time, being alone now felt all wrong.

I ripped off my clothes, feeling like the loose fabric was too tight on my skin. Was it warm in here? I stomped to the air conditioning and saw that it was on sixty-five.

Okay, so not hot.

I would take a shower, give them time to think like I’d just said. If it was time to be on my own again…then so be it.

I turned on the water, noting how fast it got hot. Cain certainly knew how to pick his residences.

I stepped into the shower, and turned the temperature up even more so that it was scalding, so that it felt like it was burning off the sins imprinted on my skin.

Now, now, Aurora, don't be getting emotional.

I wondered how Remington and Paxton would've reacted if they’d been in the room this morning. Would Remington have blown it all off with his typical humor? Would Paxton have looked at me and wanted nothing to do with me?

I hated that my skin felt so tight. This was where the Demon had gotten it right when he'd told me that no one would understand, that I would never belong with anyone else. I was a freak…

A monster.

Just then, the glass door flew open, and cold air yanked at my skin.

"Are you allowed to just walk away from me?" Cain drawled, and a rush of relief swept over me, so violent that I shook even as I stood there in the piping hot water.

He stepped in and then I heard another set of footsteps, and my heart lifted even further.

Stellan was here as well.

"Fuck,” Stellan muttered, and then he reached over and adjusted the temperature on the water so it no longer felt like my flesh was melting off my bones.

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