Total pages in book: 159
Estimated words: 149148 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 746(@200wpm)___ 597(@250wpm)___ 497(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 149148 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 746(@200wpm)___ 597(@250wpm)___ 497(@300wpm)
It had been a long time since she had seen the monstrous little girl, and even though MJ told herself that Panic wasn’t real, that Panic was just a figment from the nightmarish past, she couldn’t help tensing as Panic skipped and hopped towards her, looking crazier and more terrifying the closer she got.
When Panic was just half a foot away, MJ’s eyes involuntarily closed.
But instead of Panic’s deafening titters, she heard...nothing.
Her eyes slowly opened.
And she gasped...and after a while, she started to laugh.
Helios was beating the shit out of Panic, kicking her until the monstrous little girl was pounded into ashes.
“MJ?” Helios tried not to sound too worried as he shook his wife awake. “You’re having a bad dream.”
Gradually, MJ found herself falling back into consciousness. Her eyes drifted open, and she saw Helios looking down at her, a grave look on his face.
“You had a bad dream,” he repeated.
She shook her head drowsily. “No. It was a good dream,” she mumbled, closing her eyes. “You were beating up a little girl.”
Silence.
Oh. Wait. That didn’t come out right, did it? She opened her eyes again and saw Helios gaping at her.
“I’m beating up a little girl...and it’s a good dream?”
“It’s not like that,” she said quickly. “It’s because there’s this girl, I call her Panic...” She stopped when she realized she was only making herself sound like a lunatic. “It’s a good dream, really,” MJ said lamely. “I promise.”
Helios shook his head. “I don’t know. I think this may be an effect of our lovemaking. I think it’s too soon.”
Too soon? What the—
They had been celibate for a year. They had made love just once last night, and now they might have to be celibate again?
She shook her head profusely. “No, no, no, it’s not too soon.”
“I’m just not sure, baby. You know I love you—”
“And I love you,” she said quickly.
“So I don’t want to do anything to frighten you. Maybe seeing my cock—”
“I love your cock!”
Silence.
And then she saw Helios’ shoulders start to rock.
MJ gasped. “Oh my God, you were totally pulling my leg again, weren’t you?”
Smart enough not to give her an answer, a still-laughing Helios chose to kiss MJ and make love to her one more time. As he covered her lips with his, he thanked God in his mind that MJ was really back. Perhaps she was wiser beyond her years now, but it didn’t matter as long as she was the same innocent MJ he could always tease.
Chapter Sixteen
KELLION ARGYROS WAS leaving the wedding reception to find himself a girl to fuck for the night when he stumbled upon something extremely interesting. Through the partially open door of the kitchen, he saw a girl squatting down halfway and clasping her arms over her shoulders.
A moment later, the guy she was talking to crowed triumphantly, “Heavy! You’re saying it’s too heavy for you to carry on your own, so you’d like me to help you with the crates?”
The girl nodded, smiling.
The guy gave her a thumbs up. “Sure, no problem. I’ll pack these up while you wait for Bobby to come back with the payment.”
She gave him a thumbs up of her own.
When the guy left, Kellion entered the kitchen and tapped the girl on the shoulder. She whirled around immediately, and his first look of her was everything he had imagined her to be. Blond, beautiful, and big-chested – she was his ideal woman all right, and fortunately for her, they wouldn’t have any trouble communicating with each other. Unlike the asshat she had been talking to earlier, he knew how to fucking sign since it was one of the consequences he had to pay when he lost a bet to Leandro Christopoulos’ manipulative fiancée.
He signed swiftly, wanting to impress her with his speed and knowledge.
But she only looked at him.
Fuck. Maybe he got a few words wrong?
He signed to her again, but still she gave him that look.
Behind her, the door to the kitchen opened and Bobby poked her head in. “Aria?”
The girl turned around.
Bobby waved the check before placing it on the steel countertop next to the door. “Thanks for all the hard work for tonight. MJ wanted me to tell you that she loved everything you prepared! I have to go, there’s some fiasco with the wedding cake and I promised MJ I won’t let it anything happen to it.” Bobby paused, her gaze going to Kellion. “Umm, what are you doing here? Oh, never mind. I really have to go. Don’t flirt with her, Kellion!”
Aria was still looking at Bobby’s departing back when behind her she heard the man say, “Well, fuck. You’re not deaf, are you?”
She wished she could just go, but she forced herself to turn around again.
Kellion found himself the recipient of the most serious look he had ever been subjected to in his whole life.