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“Who? What?”

“Be careful,” Peri says. “Someone wants you alive. Someone wants you dead. Good luck on your own, doll.”

Peri steps into the room and shuts the door.

I remain standing, frozen completely in place.

ChapterEleven

PERILOUS

I wait.And I know I won’t have to wait long. My pet wants to play this game? This fuckingslutwants to play this game?

Then let’s fucking play, doll.

I face the closed door and ball my hands into tight fists. There’s something about the girl that has things off balance. The oddness of her showing up the way she did just as I was about to kill thattarget. Now I find out her father is part of theLegion. And Luc wants her dead.

Yet she doesn’t know a fucking thing about any of this. Unless she’s the most brilliant liar to ever walk this world, she has no clue who her father is, what theLegionis, who I really am, including mybrood. All of it.

She’s on another part of campus and has only heard the rumors of the true darkness that exists withinSinners Academy. Ancient buildings with ancient rituals. Men so powerful they could make other powerful men disappear and not a single fucking person would question it.

And now, I’m somehow in the mix of this fucking mess too. I’ve tasted Annika’s cunt. I’ve teased the back of her throat with my cock. It’s been…

I hear the sound of the doorknob trying to turn. I curl my lip and smile at the same time.

There you go, doll.

Annika knocks at the door.

“Perilous…?”

Ah, listen to that terrified, angelic voice.

I don’t answer her.

Fuck her.

She wanted to leave.

“I need to know what you meant by what you said,” Annika’s voice speaks. “Please. This is not who I am.”

More silence. She knocks again. This time a little louder. The doorknob jiggles. She’s panicking. Makes me wonder if she perhaps knows more than I think she does. Back and forth with this intriguing bullshit between us.

I finally unlock the door and open it.

Annika stands there, tears on her cheeks. Her skin tattooed with goosebumps. Her lips pale, shaking, yet still somehow kissable.

No.

Fuckable.

The fear in her eyes is almost palpable. My heart gives an extra quick thud. Before I can help it, I’m thrust back intothat night.

The SUV. Midsized yet packed with safety features. The kind you buy to drive your children in. You’ll be safe. Always safe.

My hands launch forward and I grab Annika by her shoulders and pull her toward me. I slam her against my chest. A second later, I drive her back.

Annika suddenly throws a fist, hitting me in the mouth. That I did not expect at all. It definitely catches me off guard.

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