I lean back against him. “Yeah. But thank fuck he didn’t freak out.”
“That was him not freaking out?” Xave kisses just under my ear.
“That was him not freaking out,” I confirm.
“I’m just glad I didn’t have to kill him,” Xave says as he nuzzles my neck, his stubble scraping against my skin and sending a shiver through me.
I chuckle and pull his arms tighter around me. “Yeah, me too.”
He rubs his cheek against my neck in a deliberate way, and I don’t bother hiding my moan as a flurry of tingles dance over my skin.
“Were you serious about telling people about us?” I ask, tilting my head to the side to give him better access.
“Yup.” He nibbles on my neck, right above my shoulder. “I’ve already started laying the groundwork at the house.”
“You have?”
He nods against my neck. “And I know enough of Jordan’s, Nico’s, and Axel’s secrets that they won’t dare oppose me.”
“I don’t have that kind of leverage here.”
“Doesn’t matter.” He nips at my ear. “You’re under my protection. If your leadership has a problem with it, then they can take it up with me and my cousins.”
“You’re willing to start a war to be with me?” Something warm and tingly curls in my chest and stomach.
“Yup,” he says, still teasing my neck and ear with his lips. “I’ll burn the world to the fucking ground to be with you. If anyone is dumb enough to fuck with me, or with you, then I will happily destroy not just them, but everything that’s ever mattered to them. I don’t give a fuck who they are.”
“That kind of talk should scare the piss out of me, but it’s making my insides feel funny,” I tell him honestly.
“Funny haha, or funny good?”
I turn my face to his so I can look into his eyes. “Funny good.”
His smile is surprisingly sweet as he gives me a long kiss that’s full of promise and heat.
“How about you go lock the door so we can finish what we started before we were interrupted,” he suggests in his sex voice.
I practically jump off the bed when he lets go of me, and my heart does a weird, fluttering beat when I’ve locked the door and find him lying on my bed with his hands under his head and a cocky grin on his lips.
Smiling like a besotted moron, I hurry across the room and climb on top of him, already shoving all thoughts of West and telling people about us out of my head so I can focus on the man under me.
25
XAVE
“What’s going on?”I ask my cousins as I stride into Jace and Jax’s room.
Jace, who’s sitting in his usual spot at his desk, looks as serious as Killian and Jax, who are occupying the sofa in the center of the room.
“I found him,” Jace says.
My entire body goes on edge, and I pull in a deep breath so I can clear my head as a low buzz of anger gathers inside me.
“Felix is with Damon,” Killian says, anticipating where my thoughts went.
“And before you lose your marbles, we’ve got eyes on them.” Jace points to one of his screens, and the feed of one of the school security cams is on it.
I look closer at the image and see that Felix and Damon are sitting on a bench in the main quad, their heads bent together as they talk about something.
