“I believe you’ve already performed that,” I lastly answered.

Previously couple months, Knight had performed every thing he’d promised, and that had helped me cinch Maxon’s belief. If not for that, I doubted Maxon would’ve let me stroll away from that day within the swamps.

I held out my hand, a gesture of truce.

He stilled. Then, assembly my gaze, an unstated remark passing between us, he shook my hand and nodded. All of the sudden, I felt a flooding of launch hit me.

Godfuckingdamn. Summer time was proper.

It felt good to let issues go. To belief folks once more.

All of the sudden, lights dimmed, the music grew louder, and Amara and Callie’s laughter stuffed the air. They had been dancing in the course of the room. Somebody had purchased a disco ball, and its lights had been bouncing across the room.

Hawke wasn’t dancing with them, however brooding within the shadows with a frown on his face. His stare was burning a gap in Callie’s bottom.

“We’ll speak later,” Tatiana stated to me, squeezing my wrist earlier than she and Knight joined the others on the dance flooring.

Summer time put a drink in my hand, smiling softly once I observed she’d given me a few of Douglass’ whiskey. “You cheerful?” she requested.

I took a sip, the odor in my nostril reminding me of different instances, good instances, with Douglass. I nodded, “Sure.” It was true.

“Good.”

The ladies made area for Knight and Tatiana, who had been observing one another intently, in love, oblivious to the world round them, and I may solely stare in shock on the sight earlier than me.

So, it was true.

Tatiana had actually forgiven Knight, and so they had been actually blissful collectively.

Callie left the group and went to Hawke. She gave him a teasing smile and tugged on him, inviting him to hitch the group dancing.

“They remind me of us,” Summer time gestured in direction of Tatiana and Knight. “They’re…” she struggled to search out the proper phrases, “meant to be collectively.”

Growling, I grabbed Summer time’s facet and pulled her into my embrace. “You imply that?” I requested her. “You consider we’re meant to be collectively.”

“Sure,” she answered, staring straight into my eyes, her expression severe.

“You tricked me,” I stated into her ear, my fingers threading in her hair, “Went behind my again, someway acquired their data. Invited them right here with out my permission.”

“I don’t want your permission,” she sassed again. “It’s my home. I can invite who I wish to go to.”

Fisting her hair, I pulled her head again to reveal her neck to me. I pressed a kiss on the base of her jaw, and murmured in her ear. “You’ve precisely one minute.”

“One…minute?”

“Sure,” I stated, my voice low and threatening. “You had been naughty tonight, and deserve your punishment.”

Her eyes widened, “However right here? Now?”

“Everybody on this room deserves to know the way naughty you’ve been…” I gave her a stark look. She knew I didn’t give a shit about who was round.

“However Callie?—”

“Fifty seconds…”

She yelped, then jerked from my embrace, and ran from the room.

CHAPTER 53

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