Total pages in book: 181
Estimated words: 181613 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 908(@200wpm)___ 726(@250wpm)___ 605(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 181613 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 908(@200wpm)___ 726(@250wpm)___ 605(@300wpm)
“He’s a pyrotechnician,” Aspen responds.
“A what now?”
I laugh. “It means someone who’s a specialist in creating fireworks displays. That’s his job.”
“Ahh … Guess you learn something new every day,” Grey says.
“It’s not a profession people often choose.” She shrugs. “But I know my dad. This was the only option.”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, let’s just say he loves fire a little too much.” She laughs to herself.
“Ah, well that explains it,” Grey says while staring at the sky above, where millions of lights explode.
“Explains what?” She looks at him.
“Be careful, Ghost-boy, you’re playing with fire,” Apollo warns him with a grin.
“He means you tried to set fire to the Phantom Society,” I explain.
“Damn right and you know exactly why,” she says, folding her arms.
“Goddamn pyro,” Apollo says. “Love it.”
“Stop calling me Ghost-boy because I have white hair,” Grey growls.
“You prefer cuck?” Apollo raises a brow.
Grey’s jaw drops. “We’re at a family thing!”
“You think I care what they think?” Apollo says.
“Who’s a cuck?” Xavier asks as he leans in.
“You,” Grey lies.
“You wish,” Xavier retorts.
“Then don’t butt in on conversations that have nothing to do with you,” Grey says.
“I can’t help that I’m nosy.”
“Too nosy for your own good,” Aspen says, shoving him away. “Go watch the fireworks.”
“It’s boring when you have no one to hold hands with.”
Apollo wraps his arm around Aspen and presses a kiss to her cheeks. “You’re just jealous.”
“He is, but the only reason is because he’s a pussy who can’t ask my sister out on a date,” I say without even granting him one glance.
“Oh my God …” Aspen snorts and hides her laughter behind her hand.
“Wow, just wow,” Xavier says as he gets up. “For your information, I have never even shown interest in your sister, so I don’t know how you got the idea—”
“You think I live under a rock?” I interrupt. “I’m dating your sister. She talks.”
Xavier just stares at me, then Aspen, narrowing his eyes.
“Whatever. Continue fantasizing, I’m gonna grab some more food.” He walks off, leaving the group.
“Don’t be so hard on him,” Aspen says, smiling at me.
“How else is he gonna grow some balls?” I grin back.
She pokes me, but I grab her hand and pin her down onto the grass. “Don’t poke the beast unless you’re willing to get eaten alive.”
“Ooooh, I’m so scared,” she says, chuckling.
“You should be,” Apollo says. “If you knew what he had planned tonight.”
A devious grin spreads on her cheeks. “Now I’m curious.”
“You’ll find out soon enough.”
I kiss her hard and fast, not giving a shit who sees. Cecelia and Melody make whoo whoo sounds together like they’re cheering us on, and fuck it, it only makes me kiss her harder, driving my tongue inside for good measure just to prove to the world that she is mine. And there ain’t nothing any of those fuckers can do about it.
“I have a couple of new toys I wanna try out,” Apollo says, winking. “They’re in the car.”
“Now I’m the one who’s curious,” Grey says, biting his lip.
“Soon, my little twink,” Apollo says, placing his hand on Aspen’s belly as he leans in to kiss her too. “Soon.”
Grey rolls over too and kisses her from the other side, their hands touching on her belly as we all make out with her.
“Wait, wait, wait,” Aspen mutters. “I still have a question.”
“What’s more important than kisses?” I ask, still pecking her.
“It’s not, but I just wanna know … since you’re my ghost, did you kill that guy in the girl’s bathroom at Spine Ridge?”
I frown while staring at her. “No?”
“Really? He was all tied up.”
“Why would I? I didn’t know the guy.”
“Did any of you do it?” she asks, and both Grey and Apollo shake their heads.
She leans up on her elbows and stares into the distance. “Then who did?”
“Maybe there is another killer on campus …” Levi says with wriggling brows, and my face turns white as snow. He grins, and it pisses me off so much I slap his thigh.
“Not funny!”
“Is anyone even watching Dylan’s fireworks?” Alistair asks, interrupting her chain of thought.
We gaze around at the others, and it looks like Ivy, Max, Silas, and Heath were also making out on the grass. Aspen chuckles. “Seems we’re not the only ones who can’t control ourselves.”
I grin against her neck as I press dirty little hickeys all over. “The filth runs in the family.”
“Have you heard from Sunny at all?” Mom asks as I grab my helmet after the night is over.
“No,” I reply.
She frowns. “Why wasn’t she here?”
“I don’t know.” I grab my coat and put it on.
“Wait, Sunny wasn’t here, was she?” Milo says. “She never bails on family functions.”
“When I get my hands on her, she is going to be in so much fucking trouble.” Mom’s hands ball into fists, and she growls out loud. “Finally, everyone is back together, and she just decides to jump ship.”