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)
“They are hot,” he sliced in, stuffing my reply back in my mouth. “They’re filthy fucking hot. We did things to each other that would blow your eyebrows off. Nothing but hard, sweating naked alphas going at each other like a starving man tears apart a ham.” He smirked. “Or a sausage.”
My breath hitched, choking me a little. Weakened arms slipped out from under me and I bounced off my face. I was picturing it. I was picturing it hard.
“But as much as I need that money, I’d never trade those videos for it because the thought of you getting off on anything to do with me makes me violently ill.”
My fantasy shattered into a million pieces.
“You’re never going to tempt me,” he hissed. “You’ll never see me naked. You’ll never touch me. I’ll never get you off, and we will never bond. You, Volana, won’t even get to fantasize about me in your dreams.”
Each word was a dagger to my wolf’s heart. I kept her pain off my face. “Is that so?”
“Yeah, that’s so,” Edric said softly, backing toward the door. “Because for every day your ass walks free and I walk without my money, I’ll make your life a living hell.
“That’s the deal and the only one you’re going to get,” he said, throwing open the door. “Take it or take it.”
Edric blew out, leaving me blinking after him.
“Someone’s a drama queen.” Peeling myself off the bed, I ducked into that shower I’d been waiting for. When I was done, I did some homework at my desk, then finally crawled into bed around three in the morning. I wouldn’t get nearly enough sleep, but my weary bones were just happy to sink into a pillow-top mattress.
Shutting off the light, my eyes fluttered closed.
Bang!
I bolted upright. Chilling, howling winds ripped through the window, and tore apart my room—knocking over the vanity, upending the furniture, tearing the sheets off my body and burrowing the cold so deep into my bones, no warm bath would ever get it out.
“What is going on!”
I clamped my hands over my ears, slack-jawed and helpless as raging, hurricane winds tore my room apart.
Edric’s voice slipped through my fingers, clear as if he was sitting right next to me, whispering in my ear.
“Game on.”
Chapter Five
Istumbled into History of the Dominions the next morning, red-eyed and saggy-tailed. Snickers went up at the sight of me, loudest of all from Nyx, Badr, Orion, and Edric. I earned them fair and square. I looked like an asylum escapee, and that was putting it nicely.
But the cherry on top of an awful morning was that everyone, and I meant everyone, was wearing t-shirts with photos of my flurp-faced, flopping-in-the-mud self stamped on them.
How did Ava get those made so fast?!
“Turn in your summaries of chapter two,” Raza called. “Quickly now.”
I fished the pages out of my bag and walked them to her desk. I dropped them on the pile... and they sailed away.
“Hey!”
Shooting into the air, I jumped up, my fingers brushing the edges just as they caught fire. Grim and vibrating, burnt flecks of paper floated around me. The class laughed uproariously—no one louder than Orion and Edric—both of whom were wearing my humiliation proudly on their chests.
It was everything in me not to leap across the desk and punch Edric’s face, and that anger wasn’t solely mine. My wolf was internally snarling at him too.
She may be fated to want the guy more than water in a desert, but she also loved sleep. A lot. When they talked about waking up on the wrong side of the bed, she was my wrong side—and she didn’t mess around.
Smirking, Edric made the sign for money, driving his point home. I forced the same mocking on my lips and made the sign for video.
He laughed.
I wasn’t really after any private videos between him and Nyx. I only said that to shut down this ransom nonsense because I didn’t have time to take on someone else’s plots when I had my hands full with my own.
Honestly, even if he gave them to me, I wouldn’t watch them. The last thing on earth I needed to do was get my wolf even more revved up for the band of jerks that were getting in my way, and ruining the plan. If Orion hadn’t told the truth despite the others pressuring him not to, it all would’ve come crashing down before it ever started.
They’re irritating distractions that I don’t have time for. The only thing to do with them is put them down, then put them out.
“Detention, Miss Volana.”
“What? Me?” I cried. “Why?”
Raza smiled into my eyes. “For not turning in your assignment.”
My nostrils flared. “And I assume Edric and Orion will not receive detention for destroying said assignment?”
She was already turning her back on me. “There are several fire and wind wolves in this room. Do you have proof they are the ones responsible?”