I could feel my jaw tighten the moment Louise brought up the idea of Tori cheating on me. It was ridiculous, of course—absurd, even—but once the thought was planted, it festered like poison. Louise had a way of getting under my skin like that. I couldn’t let it show, not in front of Tori. She didn’t deserve my jealousy or my insecurities, but damn it, when I thought about her and Kyros, something dark stirred inside me.
Kyros. That boy didn’t know how to hide his emotions as well as he thought he did. I’d seen the way his gaze lingered on Tori, the subtle frustration he tried to mask every time we were together. I didn’t blame him—Tori was magnetic, impossible not to notice—but knowing he liked her, seeing those stolen glances… it set something off in me. Something primal.
Taking a deep
