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“You’ve got balls, Perilous. I’ll give you that much.”

“No, Luc. It’s not about balls.”

“What is it then?Love?”

“Honor,” I say right away. “Fucking honor.”

I curl my lip and Luc strokes his chin.

“You do know, Perilous, nothing comes for free.”

Luc stares and does not blink. He has a way of flipping a switch and becoming extremely dark and evil.

Nothing comes for free.

TheLegionis power. Control. Money. TheLegionis cruel. TheLegionis hell.

And I guess in some sense that makes me a fucking demon. And I’m not sure if Annika is my angel or not. But I know Luc has something on his mind.

And I know the deep, intense flames of this hell are going to hurt one more time.

ChapterThirty-Four

ANNIKA

“No,you can’t use your hands!” Serafina cries out and giggles.

“It’s too big for my mouth,” I say to her. “I need to stabilize it.”

“You have a small mouth.”

“Or maybe it’s just too big…”

We both start to laugh.

I turn my body an inch and my ass slides off the bed and I hit the floor with a hard thud. Pain shoots up my back to my neck as I cry out, still laughing.

“Annika!” Serafina drops down to her knees in front of me. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah,” I say. “I’ve had worse pain back there.”

“From Perilous?”

I place my right pointer finger to my lips and smile. There’s something about Serafina that’s just so…natural.

I mean, she gets it. She’s living in this insane, dark world too. And honestly, we just click.

She wanted me to take a shot of vodka without using my hands. I watched her wrap her mouth around the shot glass with ease, lift her head and throw it back.

For my turn, I kept trying to use my hand.

Look. I’m drunk. Okay?

And it feels good to be drunk right now. It’s not a bad drunk. It’s a fun drunk. A happy drunk.

Serafina touches my left shoulder. “We have to crash some parties together soon. Just to get them all fired up. I love watching Ty get violent. Is that wrong?”

I lean toward her. “No. I never knew how much I enjoyed this stuff. Is that wrong?”

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