Total pages in book: 192
Estimated words: 192810 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 964(@200wpm)___ 771(@250wpm)___ 643(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 192810 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 964(@200wpm)___ 771(@250wpm)___ 643(@300wpm)
Oh boy!
“No,” I said, not that I didn’t know they went up there for the reunions. I was saying no to the knowledge that even her blood family treated them badly.
She jerked her head down in an affirmative. “Oh yes.”
“Why do you go?”
“Because Dad has scads and scads more money than they do, and they treated him like dirt even when he was a kid, so he likes us to go up and rub their faces in it.”
I couldn’t help but laugh.
Because that was so Mr. Truelock.
And yeah.
You didn’t cross the pride of a demon.
“The only good demons live in the Fall, the Break or the End. Period. Dot,” she declared, crossing her arms on her chest again and returning to pouting.
“Well, I sense Tanyn is of a different sort. I think you need to give him…”
I felt something, looked to the side, and caught Tanyn staring our way.
Nope.
I caught Tanyn staring at Cat’s bare legs, and I couldn’t tell at this distance, but there seemed a hint of a ruby glow in his blue eyes.
My attention skittered to Mr. Truelock, who was sipping his vodka tonic, his position meaning he could see us, and Tanyn, even if he was listening to something Cormac was saying.
In other words, he was at an angle he could see it all, and a small smirk was on his face.
He didn’t miss this.
Okay, Bash seemed like a cool male, but I was absolutely loving this.
I looked back to Cat. “Honey—”
She peered over my shoulder, straightened and mumbled, “Oh shit.”
I turned that way and saw Timothee was stalking in.
He looked tired. His eyes were swollen.
And he was determined to get to me.
I stood swiftly. Cat came up with me. And Aleksei was there before Timothee, his attention glued to me, stopped three feet away.
“Tim,” Aleksei murmured.
But I pulled in a sharp breath as Timothee executed a formal bow, arm wrapped around his stomach, the kind that was fit for a queen (Madam Garwah had demonstrated the male bows in class too).
And he did this to me.
I swallowed down a suddenly tight throat.
And I had to do it again when Timothee rose, and the instant he was straight, Aleksei’s hand shot out.
He caught his brother by the back of the neck and yanked him into his body. He rounded him with his other arm, and I fought whimpering as Timothee wrapped his arms around Aleksei as well.
They pounded backs, Aleksei said something into his ear, Timothee nodded, he said something, then they let go and stepped away.
“One moment, ladies,” Aleksei said, and he and Timothee walked right back out of the room.
The instant I lost sight of them, Gayle and Monique were there.
“I take it that was big?” Gayle guessed.
“That was big,” I confirmed.
“I thought so. Queen Calisa is the master of keeping her cards close to her chest, but I thought she was going to bust out crying when Timothee bowed to you,” Gayle explained.
I turned to look at the queen.
She was still in conversation with her group, but it now seemed avid, and there was color in her cheeks.
In fact, all three Knightstars appeared to be feeling better about things.
Mark one in the good column for Prince Timothee, and I hoped there would be more.
“You walked in with Aleksei like it’s all good,” Monique remarked. “Are you in the wrong profession and should be in front of a cam, not behind the scenes, or has something changed?”
There was too much to get into there, particularly about my dad (obviously, I wasn’t going to tell them about Errol), so I said, “We had a huge dustup and then had sex twice, and now it’s all good,” I shared.
I got three big smiles.
“Are you okay?” I asked, narrowing my eyes on Gayle.
“Later,” she replied right before Aleece joined our group.
We chatted, and about ten minutes later, Aleksei and Timothee came back into the room.
Catching the look my mate aimed at me, I excused myself from my company and made my way to him.
He slid his arm around me, tipped his head down and held me where I was at his front, our bodies not close, but not far, though I knew our position put me as a kind of shield, even if the others could see him because he was so tall.
“All good?” I asked.
“Tim might have been zoned out on drugs the last four hours, but I believe even before that, he’s had a chance to think on things. He just admitted that he’ll be attending the ball with Anna on his arm.”
I wanted to roll my eyes at another indication of how petty his brothers were (and petty was kind when it came to the rot Errol had gotten up to).
But I didn’t
I just nodded.
“He’s into her, of course. But mostly, it was to be a jackass. He reports she’s still pissed at me, but he doesn’t care that she’s using him, because she’s going that extra mile, and they’ve been fucking.”