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“I don’t want to,” says Knight. “I want to kill shit. It’s just, you know, fate.”

I snort.

Striker shoves him. “You’re an ass, you know that.”

“Yeah?” says Knight.

Now, they’re kissing, and I look at it and sigh, because it’s so good to see my mates connected. Also, I think I may have some kind of voyeuristic kink for men fucking each other, which… I think that’s going to work outwell, actually.

“I love you,” Striker’s saying against Knight’s lips.

“You’re mine,” Knight says back.

“Just say it back, you dick,” says Striker, thrusting into Knight again.

Knight gasps. “Fuck you, I love you, okay?”

I giggle. I kiss Calix.

He strokes my hair away from my brow, settling between my legs.

“Don’t you want to save the world, Calix?”

“Can we do that, though?” he says.

“Why not?” I say, kissing his chin. “Why the fuck not?”

11

knight

MY PLAN FORthe morning is to bite Lotus.

I think that Striker and I should do it at the same time while we’re both knotting her, one of us in her pussy and one of us in her ass.

I was basically knotted down while I watched Lotus get double penetrated by Calix and Arrow last night. Striker played with me while he knotted my ass, and it felt great, and it was hot as all hell, but it’s only a preamble, and I know that everything is better once we’re all bitten in.

We need to be claimed by our omega.

But early in the morning, earlier than Calix’s alarm even goes off (assuming it is going off, because he said last night he wasn’t going to work, and it’s a long drive to Connecticut and back every day) I wake up and someone is tapping on the window.

I get up, pulling a stray quilt around my waist, and I see it’s Theodorus out there.

He gestures with his head for me to come with him.

I get dressed and go out of the house to meet him.

It’s chilly outside, the autumn air making me hunch into the sweatshirt I’ve put on.

He’s wearing an old-man cardigan, but he seems pretty spry for an old guy. I don’t even know how old he is. I wonder.

“Walk with me?” he says.

“Sure,” I say and fall into step with him.

We go walking out in the direction of the pond where I found Theodorus yesterday, but we veer off before we get there, and we end up walking through a little foot path in a strip of woods.

It’s not until we’ve been walking for long enough that we’re out of sight of any of the houses that Theodorus speaks. “Kyvelki went to talk to Penelope after you left yesterday,” he says, looking around as if he’s worried someone’s listening.