Fantastic.
CRESCENT
Karma was listing the alphas he’d killed to Sin. When he mentioned the one who’d chased me, that cleared some of the happy haze. My floaty joy really crashed when I prodded thebond and found that Phantom and Vandle were… noticeably absent.
Blocking me out?
Or unconscious?
Oh dear…
I was hot, but my bare skin felt cold, and I couldn’t help but sigh breathily when Karma’s knot softened enough for him to slip out of me. A rush of his cum followed, dripping onto the floor beneath us.
Sin knelt in front of me when Karma went to set me down.
“Gonna be hard to clean you up,” he said.
He helped me put my shoe back on—one had fallen half off when we’d pulled my sweats off one ankle—and then grabbed his own shirt. Ripping off a strip of fabric, he wiped at the mess on my thighs.
Karma pulled his pants back up his legs, hauling me back against his chest and rubbing his chin across my shoulder.
He felt… balanced.
Calmer than I’d ever seen him.
Was this enough to keep him present for our appeal in the morning?
I leaned against him as Sin cleaned me up, yawning wide even though I knew it would be a while before I could sleep peacefully.
I was drifting off when the banging started.
It jolted me awake on Sin’s lap. We were in the same dark room with damp, heavy air.
Karma stood by the door, a finger pressed to his lips, completely with it, now.
What was making that noise?
It sounded like metal on stone.
A baton smacking against the wall, coming closer with every bang. Sin helped me stand, silent in my sneakers, and pushed me behind him. I noticed his gun was already in his hands.
I held my breath until I went dizzy and needed to suck in air.
Then, the banging stopped, as close to us as it could possibly be.
The door opened with a resounding slam, and there was nowhere to hide.
Karma grabbed the man around the throat, shoving him back out the door. They grappled, the man’s hands trying to remove Karma’s, before disappearing from view. Everything was loud all of a sudden: pounding footsteps and shouts and more banging of metal on stone.
I trembled, clinging to Sin from behind as he took careful, measured steps forward.
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SIN
There was only one alpha poking his head into the closet-like, tiny room, but his shout could draw more.
I kept Crescent behind me as Karma wrestled him into the hall. My gun was cool against my palm, and if there was ever a time to use my one precious bullet, it would be tonight.