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Story: Bonding Beasts

I killed her.

What have I done?

Hot tears spill out as I take in her corpse with horror.

What have Idone?

08. Paranoid

Kimi

This is soboring! I don’t know if I can fake being asleep for much longer. I have an itch I need to scratch! Plus, I totally called all of this, and no one listened, as usual. Oh wait, I did say it out loud, right? Shit, I can’t remember.

Iris, aka Golden Vagina, is the mastermind behind all the horrible actions in the TGT house.GASP!

Totally called it. I knew she had thatGoddessvibe as soon as she showed up.

I warned Mal and King that sexing her up was not the best idea. Deadbeat moms are a thing, too, you know? If I had known that dick in crazy rule earlier, I would have used it on them. The rule, not my dick.

I digress.

The longer she stayed with us, the worse things got and the more suspicions I had. I’m crazy, sure, but I’m not stupid.

I played the waiting game to see when she would get tripped up. I would have had myAH-HAsuper detective moment, and everyone would throw me a party. We could celebrate for a week with confetti and strippers without a care in the world. I would have even TP’d Mitri without getting shot like the last time.

But no. This cracked-out Goddess clone upped the ante and took over King’s sex-addled brain and didsome kind of magic crap with the house, muddying everyone’s thoughts and just generally being a bitch about everything.

Oooh, I bet she’s the one that came up with the give Bae the cold shoulder treatment. I’m almost positively not sure it was her. Either way, when I confess, itwillbe her fault. She’ll be dead soon, so she won’t be able to argue.Yay!

What is taking so long?! Wake up already! Mitri was sure she would be the first to get up, but they’re all lying down on the job.

I raise my head and look around. The puppy is in the cage next to me, snoring softly, and Mal is on his other side in another. How come me and Mal are chained up, but the puppy isn’t? Rude. I mean, mainly dumb, but alsorude. Why are dogs treated better when they piss everywhere and are a pain in the ass?

Mitri is chained to a chair. Huh. I guess they ran out of cages? That’s dumb, too.

Damn, this whole dimension is dumb. Did they give him a necklace? A collar. I guess everyone wants someone to yank around on a chain. Must be a goddess thing.

GV starts cursing because I’m awake. Boohoo. What a whiner. She’s on the phone with someone higher up the food chain than her.Ha!Bootlicker.

Oh! There’s my morally gray villain wifey now, completely unchained, and uncaged. She’s still sleeping, though. So, how do I wake her? I can’t cuddle her and give her gentle kisses from this distance, so that’s out. I kinda have to pretend I can’t get out of this cage and chains for a little longer. I mean, I don’thaveto. I just want to.

GV is going on about that stupid collar and testing if some chemical will work. Trying to suck up by ‘capturing’ us all.

As if.

I hear a malereplying to her with mumbled questions over the connection's static. Would it kill him to speak up?Somepeople are trying to blatantly eavesdrop over here! People are so inconsiderate.

Oh shit, that came through loud and clear. They’re going to kill King? Break the mate bond between him and Mal, making my little cuddle bear easier to control and manipulate?

Uh, hello, pissing off the dragon equals a super bad idea. Do these idiots even realize what he’s capable of?

Probably not. It has been a peaceful century, and King always went on and on about how being mated tamed Mal. Ugh, love makes people even dumber than usual. I guess that’s why he’s mumbling on the phone, so King won’t hear their evil plan.

So they want to keep Mal. They may want to keep Mitri, too. For whatever reason they think is super smart. Which means it’s probably the dumbest smart thing they could think of.

Have I said I hate this place? I know I have, but I think it must be repeated daily. Meh, Mitri will wake up and kill everybody, so no worries.

I really want to see howBaereacts to all of this. She was doing a perfect act of being a sweet wifey before she left. I was managing to follow her train of thought well. Now that she’s gone cuckoo, everything is up in the air. This is a brand-new incarnation with many differences that keep me guessing. I can’t tell if the Goddess is out or not.