Total pages in book: 121
Estimated words: 114617 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 573(@200wpm)___ 458(@250wpm)___ 382(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 114617 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 573(@200wpm)___ 458(@250wpm)___ 382(@300wpm)
I rolled my eyes. “Oh, please. They can’t get me on murder. You really think a broken curfew is going to take me down? Those demerits are a joke.”
“They might be to you, but they’re not to me!” Her voice climbed higher and higher over the thumping bass. “Dagem said if I don’t keep you in line, my ass is out too!”
“Not too. Only,” I corrected. “So that’s a you problem, not a me problem.”
Nia let out such a string of vile, filthy insults at my back that I laughed so hard I choked.
“I like you.” I tossed her a wink over my shoulder. “You come off so calm and collected, but there’s a fierce wolftress in you after all.”
She snarled—golden eyes taking over and bleeding even more malice. “I hate you.”
“Oh, come on, Nia. Cheer up”—I busted Ava’s door in—“it’s a party.”
Music poured out of the hole in the wall. Taking up every available surface was either alcohol, amorous couples, bodies gyrating to the soca music, or discarded clothing. Strip poker in one corner. The beginnings of an orgy on the king-sized bed. Lines of shots across her bare desk that two people were banging out as fast as possible, trying to be the first one to down the last and win the coveted prize of alcohol poisoning.
Blowing inside, my second thought was this party was insane. Ava would be a legend before the sun rose. My first thought was too bad she wasn’t going to live to sunrise to enjoy it.
Ava chose a theme for her back-to-school party, and it was me.
Or to be more accurate, my complete and utter humiliation.
Blown-up photos of me were plastered everywhere. Me screeching my head off when Edric stomped my feet on the field. Me taking an impromptu flight through the air. Me lying crumpled and bleeding. Me pulling the most unfortunate grimace while flopping around in the mud. Ava even had me as a slideshow on the big-screen TV.
And under that television, she held court with my fates, the six of them laughing and yucking it up while Ava sat proudly on Badr’s lap. Seemed his wolf wasn’t so pissed off anymore.
If I expected everyone to get angry and lose their minds at the sight of me, I was disappointed.
“Oh, Daciana, there you are,” Ava purred, pressing her cleavage further up Badr’s chin. “What took you so long? I had a feeling you’d crash, so I decorated the party just for you. Do you like it?”
Drunken laughter assaulted my sensitive ears. I smiled wide. “I love it, Ava,” I gushed. “Aww, you’re so sweet throwing a party just for me. Now I feel bad for that Hineyness thing.”
Her grin melted away. “Get lost, bitch. And take the jellyfish with you.”
I didn’t have to ask who the jellyfish was. That was another name assholes had for omega wolves, because jellyfish were brainless, pointless animals that float around doing a whole bunch of nothing.
“Me and my plus-one aren’t going anywhere.” I threw out my hand, wiggling in my tight, little black stolen dress. “The guest of honor has arrived, everyone!”
“Mason, stop.”
Turning my head, I landed on the catcalling alpha boy who unwisely set my fates off in the middle of class. He had some girl cornered in the middle of the room with his hand up her dress.
“Stop.” She was giggling, but the discomfort shown clear as she tried to wiggle away. “Not in front of everyone.”
“Ugh, fuck this.” Mason walked off, leaving her confused and hurt in his wake. He was plastered on another girl in seconds.
“What a dick.”
“Yes,” Ava replied. I couldn’t place the expression on her face as she watched him go. “He is.”
I studied Nia until she was the one looking uncomfortable. “Guys like him get what’s coming to them. One way or another. He’ll learn what it means to be afraid.”
She blinked at me. Her lips parted but nothing came out.
Grin returning, my hand shot in the air. “I got winner for Shots Regatta.”
I took one step toward the shots game and a yelp sounded behind me.
Badr was up and in my way so fast, he dumped Ava on her ass doing it. “Get out.”
“That’s a very good idea.” Nia tugged on my arm. “Daciana, please, let’s go.”
I cocked a brow at his hard, bare chest. This close, the flying eagle stretched across his pecs glared right in my eyes. “Uh, no. Why would I leave my own party?”
“You didn’t get enough on the field, Volana?” He snapped the air above my nose, growling. It was such a feral and alpha wolf thing, my ravenous slut of a wolf sat up on her haunches and purred for more. “Ready to lose round two already?”
My jaw hardened, the humor leaking out of me. “What are you saying, Badr? You’re going to beat up an unarmed, unresisting woman because she’s not doing what you want? Gotta keep the little woman in line after all.”