The Rain King: A Dark Gang Romance (A Murder of Crows Book 1) by Selena

Author:Selena [Selena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Speak Now
Published: 2022-09-01T16:00:00+00:00

twenty-two

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It takes me a few nights to get used to sleeping in my new room, knowing the twins are just across the hall. They set up a squeaky old cot in the room, which is a little office space without a proper door. Lennox hangs a sheet over the doorway to give me privacy. Neither of them offer me their bed—not that I’d let them give up that much for me anyway. I’m pretty sure Maddox is intentionally being a dick to prove he doesn’t care about me, despite what he said before. Lennox is too nice to make me share a room with his brother—and too jealous.

By the time I’ve shared a roof with them for a few weeks, I can tell how deeply he feels the sting of rejection when Maddox gets chosen first. He knows that in every way that matters to people in high school, he’s inferior to his twin. I can’t imagine how much that blows, so I try to show him that I favor him over Maddox’s moody brooding. It would help if Maddox wasn’t so damn fine on top of being huge and good at sports and, for reasons I can’t figure out, far more popular with girls.

Valeria says I don’t have to pay her back and that I’m welcome to stay as long as I want, but I insist on getting a job anyway. She promises she’ll hire me as soon as a job opens at Hastings, but in the meantime, I get a job collecting the coins from the newspaper machines around town. The first few days, Lennox drives me around in the El Camino, but once I have enough to buy a used bike at a pawn shop, I assure him that I’m fine and go it alone.

It’s nice to be able to pay Valeria back a little, so I don’t feel like such a charity case. And it’s nice to ride my bike around, to get out and even to be alone. As much as I enjoy the twins’ company, even Maddox’s when he’s not going out of his way to be an ass, they’re a lot. Their masculine, dominant energy is overwhelming at times, and they’re always either at each other’s throats or subtly goading each other. So, even though I’m doing the world’s lamest job, working is its own reward in a way…

Except when it rains.

And February in Central Arkansas sees plenty of rain.

A few weeks after I move in, I huddle down into my narrow cot as rain slashes the windows and thunder rumbles far away. At last, I fall asleep, only to be visited in my dream by a murder of crows. I’m running, and they chase after me, shrieking and diving at me as I try to escape. They’re angry because I killed Poe. Because I brought her into my human world that’s no place for a crow. The faster I run, the closer

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