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I can’t believe I just confessed my love for Peri. Is it really love though? Like actual love? Or is it… just that he’s the only one who hasn’t lied to me?

He hasn’t betrayed me. He had the chance to kill me but didn’t. He was ordered to kill me. But he didn’t. I want to know why.

Peri moves back toward the bed and places his left hand to the back of my neck and squeezes. He bends forward and kisses me, thrusting his tongue into my mouth the way he thrusts his cock into my pussy or his fingers into my ass. There’s something really sexy about him kissing me after putting his cum into my mouth.

I don’t know if he loves me back or not, and I’m not sure I really care or not.

His mouth pulls away from my mouth with a sexy, wet sound.

“There’s one last thing you need to know, doll.”

My body runs cold.

What now? What the fuck else is going on?

Peri moves the hair out of my face and I roll a little to my left. His eyes move to my breasts. The cum on my back tickles and trickles down toward the bed.

He touches my bottom lip with his thumb and strokes.

“May I ask something first?” I whisper, fear in my voice.

Peri nods.

“Do you know wheresheis right now?”

He nods again.

I close my eyes. My mother is alive and Peri knows where she is.

I open my eyes and look at the man I’ve fallen in love with. I want to screamNOto myself but there is no voice. All I have is Peri.

My eyes fill with tears once again. Peri leans down and kisses the corner of my eye. Kissing my tears. He moves his mouth to my ear.

“I have to kill them,” he whispers. “There’s no choice, Annika. I am going to kill your best friend first. Then I’m going to kill your father.”

My teeth chatter.

But this time… I don’t cry.

ChapterTwenty-Nine

PERILOUS

Annika isin the shower as I sit in her living room with Tyrant, Vic, and Demo.

“Everything is true,” Vic says to me.

I asked him to flex using his father’s resources to make sure what I found is one thousand percent accurate. In fact, I asked all three of them to do something for me. Just for complete and total clarification. Which now gives me complete control.

“Kept under the radar,” I whisper.

“Everything has,” Demo says. “And I’m sorry I let that traitorous cunt into this apartment. Those fucking eyes of hers. They got to me.”

“You didn’t know the full story,” I say.

“I do now. That fucking cunt ran right to Holom’s apartment. She found him on the floor and thought he was dead. You know what she did? When she realized he was just drunk and passed out? She got pillows and blankets and made a little bed on the floor, then cuddled him. You believe that?”

My hands are balled into tight fists. I look at Tyrant. He simply nods.

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