Page 33 of Dare To Fall

“Why?” She’s bright red.

“Sweetie, I’ve had my tongue, fingers, and dick inside you. It’s a little late to be embarrassed about being naked in front of me. Strip and get on the bed. I’m going to wrap my lips around your nipple and take a selfie.”

“I don’t want—”

“It won’t go any further than that, I promise. Not even if you scream green from the rooftop.”

“He’s right. Do it his way.”

Her discomfort with the idea is written all over her face, but she pulls off the hoodie and climbs onto the bed.

“Pull the sheet up around your waist.” Kellan stretches out beside her. “Roll toward me.” His hand rests on her hip and tugs her closer. “That’s it.” He reaches for the cell. “Okay, give that to me. Bella, close your eyes, relive having Eli’s dick inside you. His mouth sucking on you.” Her nipples harden. “That’s it. Good girl. Ready? Okay, here we go.”

He licks a wet circle around her nipple, lifts the cell, and snaps a photograph, then immediately rolls away. Arabella drags the sheet up to cover herself.

“There. That wasn’t too painful, was it? And check that out! We look fucking hot together.” He tosses her the cell. “Send the photograph.”

“Why are you so … so unconcerned by all this?” she snaps.

I sit down beside her, take the cell, and send the photograph. “He’s concerned. This is his way of dealing with it.” I meet Kellan’s gaze. “We’re in unknown territory now.”

The humor leaches from his face. “I know.”

“Unknown territory? What does that mean?” Arabella twists to face me.

I don’t move my eyes from Kellan. His tongue runs over his bottom lip, and then he nods.

“Whoever is sending you these texts did the same to Zoey. They wanted her to fuck Eli. Eli said no.”

“I thought Zoey liked girls?”

“She does … did. She was having fun with the dares—”

“And then she wasn’t.” I took over. “But we missed the signs. She thought they were funny at first. And they were. Silly little things. But somewhere along the way, they turned darker. At the Halloween party, she came in … dressed exactly the way you were and did the same things you did. Gave me a lap dance, begged me to fuck her. I refused.”

“So, then she dragged both of us onto the dance floor. She was … handsy.” Kellan picked up the thread again. “Eli called a stop to it before I did. After he left, she said she wanted to have sex with me … just to see what it was like with a guy instead of a girl. Something was off about it. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’ve known girls and guys who want to give the other side a try, out of curiosity, but it just didn’t fit for Zoey. When I said no, she started crying, then ran off.”

He looks at me again, and I know the pain in his face is reflected in mine. “That was the last time we saw her.”

I close my eyes. “Until I found her in the cemetery.”

Chapter 20

Arabella

Zoey played a game of dares. The dares turned into a nightmare. She turned up dead.

This has all happened before. Did her darer kill her, or was her death really an accident?

I press a hand to my stomach under the sheet and try to contain the panic trying to consume me.

“Are you saying that if you hadn’t found out about me being blackmailed and gone along with the dares last night, I could be dead right now?”

Eli doesn’t answer.

Kellan shrugs. “Maybe? It’s possible. We seem to be repeating the game.”

Where would they have found me? Out in the cemetery where Zoey had fallen or somewhere forgotten out in the woods. A mirror image of the girl who had already been lost.

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