Page 124 of Taming the Beasts

“No.”

“Pretty please?”

“Have you already tried asking everyone else?” he asked.

“Yes.”

“No one else folded then. And neither will I.”

Gah!Since when had Otto gotten such good self-control? “I’ll let you do whatever you want to me.”

“Really?”

I was finally getting somewhere! “Yes.”

He stepped forward. He leaned down like he was about to kiss me. But then he whispered, “You alreadylet me do anything I want to you.” And then he pulled back.

“Otto! You’re supposed to be on my side.”

“I am on your side. For the record, I fought to let the two of you stay. But I was outnumbered five to one.”

“Really?”

He nodded. “Full transparency, I didn’t fight that hard though. Because I was excited to be alone with you for a few days.”

“Emma will be with us though.”

“She can watch.”

Emma laughed.

I looked over at her. The tears were dried from her eyes. I was glad she was finding this interaction so entertaining. Because it was infuriating me.

“I’m going to go finish packing,” Otto said. “We’ll leave in a few minutes.”

I sighed as he walked back up the stairs. “I’m used to him being on my side,” I said.

“It sounds like he was,” Emma said.

“Hardly. But it’s fine. I have a backup plan.” I pulled out my phone and opened up the MyFanatics website.

“What are you doing?” Emma asked as she stole a peek at my phone.

“I need to talk to King.”

“Zoey. You promised your boyfriends you wouldn’t log in to the site anymore.”

“Well, it’s an emergency. We need to get information from King about the coin. And ask him about other supernatural creatures to figure out what Kebe is.”

“But you said Kebe compromised him.”

“I think I jumped the gun on that,” I said. “King really liked me. He wouldn’t just be suddenly enchanted by someone else. Besides, Kebe said all they did with talk. The filthy things I did with King definitely earned me some loyalty.”

“But he’s going to expect you to do those filthy things right now.” Emma eyed the staircase.

“It’ll be fine.”

“Zoey, please. You’re not supposed to livestream anymore.”