"I'm exhausted," Liv admitted. "We spent all day at the orchard again. I should never have agreed to grow all those trees."
"You could stop," Callum pointed out. "We don't need their alliance."
Liv made a face. "I told them I'd do it."
"Didn't they manipulate you into that shit?" Dare asked.
"Expertly," Niall said.
Liv smacked him on the arm halfheartedly. "I should've realized what was going on, but I didn't. If I stop growing the trees now, I'll have to deal with them coming back to beg me, and it could cause issues on the Cabinet side of things. I'm not opposed to the begging, but I think it would be more satisfying to get real, genuine revenge."
"Oh no," Kat murmured.
"Cover your ears, Kitten," Callum murmured back, his eyes brightening with the prospect of revenge.
Gwen was the sister who had betrayed Kat, and Jonah was the best friend who had basically chosen Kat's sister over her after five years of them having each other's backs. Callum probably wanted revenge even more than Liv did.
"I've considered it, but I promised Kat I won't torture them," Callum said.
Kat rolled her eyes at her mate.
"That would be too obvious," Liv agreed. "And immortality is a long time to be enemies with your sister-in-law. I kind of wish we could just kill them, but considering the blood relationship, that's off the table."
"We need something fun," Darius said, swirling his beer bottle a little. "I still have a few of those dissolving pills Larson made us to prevent that one monster king from getting an erection. The spell lasted a month or two."
Grayson snorted. "Remind me never to piss you off, Scorch."
"No kidding." Niall tugged Liv onto his lap.
"Technically, that particular form of torture was Mer's idea," Callum remarked.
Everyone looked at me, and my lips curved slightly.
He wasn't wrong.
"Somehow, that makes me even more attracted to you,"Grayson said into my mind, slipping his hand beneath my tank top so it could rest on my bare hip.
"I didn't think that was possible,"I teased.
"Neither did I."
"Let's use every last one of those pills on Jonah," Niall said.
Liv shook her head at him, grinning. "You'll never be over your issues with him."
"Never." He lowered his lips to her throat and kissed the small tattoo there.
"Alright, Jonah's dick is getting poisoned. What about Gwen?" Dare mused, his gaze flicking to Kat.
"I have an idea, but it's..." she trailed off.
"Unhinged?" Liv asked hopefully.
"Yeah." Kat grimaced. "I don't think I can tell you. I'd feel horrible."
"You're a part of this family, so you participate in revenge," Liv stated. "Whether you like it or not."
Callum scoffed. "No."
