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Chapter 3

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Back in the living room, his tail had already vanished.

The man was sprawled on the couch, long legs crossed, his expression back to that cold, shadowed indifference from before.

He lifted his gaze and gave me a look.

I was confused. "Aren't you... supposed to be asexual?"

His voice came out low and rough. "No. I'm not. My heats just come far apart. And it's been too long since my last suppressant."

"Oh. Right."

Honestly, knowing Melissa's personality, if she'd actually wanted to sleep with him, she never would've given him suppressants in the first place. And judging by how he'd been just now, he didn't seem like the type who could hold back easily. So how had he handled it before?

But if he didn't want to talk about it, I wasn't going to push.

I poured him a glass of warm water and handed it over.

"Hey. I'm Carol Martin. My sister probably mentioned me."

A long silence.

"I'm Andrew Howard."

His voice was low, flat.

I broke into a smile. "Well, we'll be living together from now on. I'll come pick you up for your new place tomorrow."

Andrew gave a small nod.

After making sure he was fine, I left the villa.

After everything was done, I didn't get home until the next morning.

But the moment I walked through my own door, Kevin had me pinned against the wall.

"So," he said, his gaze sharp and predatory, after two days of silence, "you're really giving all three of us to her?"

I hummed in confirmation.

Brian smiled, but there was an edge to it. "Not keeping even one for yourself?"

I turned the question back on him. "Anyone here actually want to stay with me?"

The tension in the room thickened.

No one answered.

Then—

"Why do you smell like another beastman?"

Brian's hand shot out, gripping my chin with more force than necessary.

His eyes locked onto the spot on my neck—where Andrew had bitten me. His voice dropped, slow and deliberate. "What's this? A hickey?"

That one word set everything off.

George pushed himself up from the couch and stalked over. "Huh? What the hell?"

He stopped right in front of me, his gaze drilling into the red mark on the side of my neck. His Adam's apple bobbed as he spoke, his voice barely above a growl. "You went and found a new beastman?"

"When did that happen?" Kevin's voice came from behind me, cold as ice. "Three of us weren't enough for you?"

I opened my mouth to respond—

The doorbell rang.
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