Page 29 of Cruel (Brutal Academy)

I patted his thigh. "The time will come that you can kill him if Dane doesn't do it first. I like the idea of you being a rage beast though. That's kinda hot."

"I'm a rage beast too," Parker said quickly. "I'm just the goofy rage beast."

"Yes you are," I told him. "You'remygoofy rage beast."

"And you're my hero, because you would have shot Penn for me." Parker shoved the last of his pizza in his mouth and grinned.

"Do you think Abbie would have shot me if I shot him?" I didn't know her well, but she had a similar vibe to me. The kind that takes no shit from anyone. That explained how she dealt with seven boyfriends. Plus she had killed before to protect her guys. Only once, that I knew of, but that was all it took sometimes. Once you take that step, there's no going back.

"It would have been the last thing she did," Hunter growled. "And then killing her would be the last thingIdid."

"And killing whoever killed you would be the last thingIdid," Parker said. "And I wouldn't care because I don't want to live without either of you."

Slade cleared his throat.

"Or you," Parker said. "I think we can all agree we've grown attached to Slade too."

Slade looked up at the rear view mirror and grinned. "I've grown attached to you three too. When I realised all of you were missing…" His smile faded. "I don't think you've seen a raging beast until you saw what I would have done if anything bad happened to all of you."

"A few students would have failed?" Parker guessed.

Slade choked back a laugh. "That for starters. Things would get uglier and uglier from there."

"Has anyone offered you a drink?" I asked. The twins both turned to look at me. "They went after the three of us. They weren't going to leave without going after Slade too."

"That's true," Hunter said slowly. "Unless…"

"I'm not involved in anything that happened to any of you," Slade said quickly. "I've already told Lila I—"

"I believe you," I said. "Either they swung and missed, or they were hoping we wouldn't trust you because they didn't do anything to you. In which case, they swung and missed there too."

"Interesting." Hunter nodded.

"It really is," Parker said.

I frowned. "What is?"

"The fact they apparently think we don't trust each other," Hunter explained. "That might be because they don't trust each other. They might assume we're like them."

"Oh." He was right. "If that's the case, we can use that to our advantage."

Hunter smiled slowly.

I knew that look. That meant he was up to something. Something I may or may not want to know the details of. Sometimes, I was better off not knowing, if only for plausible deniability. If I didn't know what they were doing, I couldn't stop them.

"Should I ask?" I cocked my head at him.

"Definitely not." He looked like the proverbial cat that got the cream. He usually did, but he was particularly smug right now. "There's only one thing you should do right now."

He shoved the pizza box onto the floor in front of us, grabbed my legs and swung me around until my back was pressed against Parker.

"You should enjoy yourself." He pushed up my oversized T-shirt and smiled at my sheer panties. "I'd prefer none, but I like these."

He parted my knees with his hands and leaned over to the full extent of the seatbelt to bury his face between my legs.

He pulled my panties aside and licked my pussy from bottom to top, then back down again. "You taste better than any pizza ever could." He kissed all around my pussy while tracing circles on my inner thigh with the pad of his thumb. He had me trembling in moments.

"I don't think I've been compared to pizza before," I said breathlessly.

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