Total pages in book: 194
Estimated words: 187754 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 939(@200wpm)___ 751(@250wpm)___ 626(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 187754 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 939(@200wpm)___ 751(@250wpm)___ 626(@300wpm)
“Mass murder? That’s a stretch.”
Sunshine’s incredulous gaze rises to meet mine. “You killed four people for no reason. How is that not a mass murder?”
“We had a reason,” Thorin says unbothered.
“A very good reason,” Khalil adds.
“Besides, killing rarely makes sense to anyone but the person or people doing it.”
“You’re all crazy.”
“For you?” Khalil flirts. “Definitely.”
Seeing that she’s getting nowhere with this bullshit argument, Aurelia drops it with a roll of her eyes. She can feign sympathy all she wants, but I don’t see her shedding tears for the drifters.
Aurelia doesn’t care as much as she should that we killed them, and that’s what bothers her most. We’ve seen her bloodthirsty need for vengeance firsthand, so Aurelia can’t even claim she wouldn’t have done the same had she known what they intended.
And we wouldn’t believe her if she tried.
Sunshine pouts for a solid five minutes before I grab her hand and pull her down into my lap. Aurelia straddles me without a fight, and when she smiles softly at me, I’m struck with this intense longing to keep her there.
“I want to eat your ass so fucking bad,” I say to her before I even realize it’s on my mind.
On the other side of the fire, Thorin pauses sharpening his knife, and Khalil spits out his coffee and starts coughing.
Aurelia’s eyes flare with want, and then she smirks as she rubs my chest. “Sure you’re ready for that, virgin? It’s not for everyone.”
Lifting my face, I rub the tip of my nose with hers. “Are you forgetting that you deflowered me, Sunshine? Trust me. I’m ready.”
“Hmm…”
“Don’t even think about it,” Thorin’s cockblocking ass commands when he realizes Aurelia is considering it. “As much as we’d all love to see that, we don’t have time for it. We need to clear these bodies out and clean the scene.”
“Party pooper.” Tapping Aurelia’s butt, she climbs off my lap so I can stand and stretch. “So, what’s the plan?”
Thorin thinks about it for a moment and then asks, “We still have that lye lying around?”
“Sure. I think so. What about the van?”
Khalil shrugs. “We wipe it down and do our job. We call it in. Let Sheriff Kelly see what those sick fucks were up to. It puts the heat on them and off us. He’ll assume they ditched it and disappeared on their own.”
I nod my agreement and then steal a peek at Aurelia to see where her head is with all of this.
She’s gazing at nothing, and I doubt she’s heard a word we said.
Edging a little closer, I place a hand on her hip. “You okay, Sunshine?”
“I’m hungry.”
It’s quiet for a moment, and then Khalil blinks and shakes his head. “Okay. New plan. We feed our girl, and then we dispose of the bodies.”
Smiling, Aurelia sidles up to Khalil and wraps her arms around his neck. He grins down at her, and Thorin sighs heavily like he knows what she’s about to say.
“I’ve changed my mind,” she whispers to Khalil. “You’re my fave.”
I smirk when they start slobbering each other down while Thorin glowers at them. Jealous asshole. “Cheer up, Thor. I offered to eat her ass, and I’m still not her favorite.”
Thorin and Khalil had taught me a lot about the opposite sex but forgot to mention how fucking confusing they are.
As soon as Aurelia breaks her kiss with Khalil, Thorin seizes her hand and tugs her into him hard enough that she collides with his chest. Shoving his hand in her hair, he wraps his other arm around her waist. “Why do you continue to test me, wolf?”
“Because you like it, Thorin.”
Sunshine rises onto the tips of her toes and pecks his lips once before pulling away. He lets her but tracks her every step as she walks away from him.
Eyeing the compound hunting bow, Aurelia lifts it from the ground. “What do you guys say I catch us breakfast this time?”
“We’ll never eat,” Thorin quips.
Aurelia’s gaze cuts toward him, and then she goes for her pack that—judging by how fucking heavy it looks—Thorin must have put together for her. Aurelia says nothing as she grabs a handful of yellow arrows sticking out of the flap and leaves the camp.
“Where the hell are you going?” Thorin shouts after her.
Turning around to face us while walking backward toward the trees, she yells back, “To catch some rabbits, you asshole!”
Cursing, Thorin snatches up his crossbow from where it is resting next to their packs before following after her.
“You’d think the two days they spent alone fucking and hunting would have helped them get along,” Khalil remarks.
“I’m pretty sure being at each other’s throats is how they flirt, Khalil.”
He grunts, and then his brows rise as he watches Thorin stomp after Aurelia. “Yeah, I think you might be right.”
My gaze flicks toward the van, and I say, “But just in case, you should go with them. Make sure they both come back in one piece.”