Page 13 of Cookie: Part One
GRRROOOOOOOWOOOOOOKKK!
My stomach revs up like a chainsaw. I flinch, embarrassed as I look at them like the awkward puppet monkey meme and I start to push off the covers because I know my stomach didn’t just clown me like that in front of all these people!
As I struggle to get up, Alik immediately moves to help me like the ride-or-die bestie he is, but before his hands even reach me, Nadya and Dimitri move him aside and help me up.
“Aww are you hungry, our sveet one?” Dimitri teases.
“Da, tell me vhat you vant,” Nadya purrs but Mikhail brushes past all three of them, stepping between them all, towering over me. He takes my hand from them with a strong grip, and I don’t even get a word out beforehe’s helping me up,his other hand settling far too low on my waist.
But I glare at him, removing his hand from my waist, ignoring my skyrocketing pulse.
“I didn’t give you permission to touch me.” I raise a brow and he throws his head back, laughing loud, deep, and cocky as fuck.
“Permission… me? Oh, I like zhis one. I zhink I’ll keep her,” he growls and hate how my tummy dips as butterflies flutter in excitement at hearing that, remembering all the filthy things he whispered to me while digging me out.
“Oooo,” Nadya claps excitedly, her arm wrapped around mine. “Can vee really?! Can vee really keep her?!” she asks him and I reel back.
“I must admit… ze zhought is tantalizing,” Dimitri licks his lips and I want to expire right then and fucking there!What the fuck are these crazy mother fuckers doing right now?!
I glance over to Pyper for help, but she’s got her arms crossed with a brow raised, but it’s when I glance over to Alik that I’m shocked when I see he’s got his lip curled, snarling.Fuck, I need to fix this.
“I’m not a pet. The fuck?” I snap, thinking they will take a hint, but Nadya just giggles, wrapping her arm around mine tighter while Dimitri’s eyes sparkle with want.
“A pet? Vhat an adorable vord… is zhat vhat you zhink I vant from you?”
“I’m at my wits end with you! You’re stretching me thin!” I glare, almost hating this sensation… my big beautiful plan has been ruined! “You’re all fucking delusional,” I snap when Misha steps close to me, right by my ear.
“I can stretch you even further zhen zhat. You just passed out before I could,” he assures low in my ear, his voice dropping an octave. “And it’s been haunting me ever since.” He steps back, smiling down at me, and I grit my teeth at my nipples that are hardening at his words.
I glace at Pyper and Alik, hoping they didn’t hear when I notice Alik is giving him a death stare while Pyper rolls her eyes and sighs. I thankeverygod known to man this woman doesn’t ask anything because I can’t handle the questioning look on her face right now. So, with what little strength I can muster, I wrangle myself from them and walk to Pyper, and Alik follows.
“Come on, y’all. I’m hungry.” I lay my head on Pyper’s shoulder and take Alik’s hand as they smile at me.
“Da, let’s feed our girl.” She snaps out of her glare, but turns to him. “Touch her again vitout permission, and you’ll be leaving vit fewer fingers, Mikhail,” she sneers and he puts up his hands, smiling.
“Vitout permission, huh? I vouldn’t dream of it.” He glances at me and my heart skips a beat before looking at all three of them, watching me with hunger.
“Good,” she mutters before she starts walking to the door, as I do my best to keep from limping, pussy still sore, body still remembering them even if at least in this moment I want to forget.Fuck this is going to be one hell of a break.
CHAPTER FOUR
CONSTANCE
“Are you sure you’re okay?” Alik asks me. I pull my jacket tight over me as air sharp enough to bite crawls up my skin. Not painfully so, but enough to keep me alert as me, Pyper, and Alik walk the winding stone path that snakes around the Bershov estate.
“Yup, I’m good,” I beam at him in awe as I take in everything. Even though I’m here, I can hardly believe my eyes that people get to see shit like this every day. I mean… it feels ancient and unreal… so untouched and powerful. It’s as if the world paused just for them and left the rest of us to move forward on our own.
Frost sparkles across the grass like powdered diamonds, still clinging to the long the roads. The trees are tall, with branches stretched out like Christmas trees, dressed in hues of burnt gold and deep blood-red. The kind of winter that only exists in fairy tales or old money estates with names likeBershovRidge.
Marble statues peek out from hedges, silent watchers with cold, cracked eyes. Some of them are angels, wolves, lions, a woman holding a sword. Even a man bowing to a ferocious bear.
And beyond it all, the house looms, less of a mansion and more of a palace.
“Simply beautiful,” I mutter to myself and glance over to Pyper, who giggles, and it reminds me of Nadya’s.Cute.
“It’s insane, right?” Pyper says, watching me as I gawk at a white marble fountain shaped like a bear.
“Insane seems like an understatement,” I murmur. “Like if this was my house, I would’ve never left,” I admit and not just because for the first time in a long time…in years, I haven’t had to look over my shoulder. I genuinely feel safe here with the guards all over the place. But I snap out my head and point. “I’d be posted up with a book and a glass of wine, pretending to be royalty.”
