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Kill Switch by Penelope Douglas

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Mommy?”

“Mommy?” he repeated. “I killed that bitch last night.”

I faltered, unnerved he would say something so odd. Of

course, he was just talking shit. I’d heard his mother, Madame

Delova, left Thunder Bay a few years ago and never returned.

What the hell was the matter with him? Did he want my

father putting a restraining order on him? I hated Damon

Torrance, but even I didn’t want that. It would just make my

parents worry to learn I was having problems with him at

school, and Thunder Bay would be like being in a frying pan if

I got one of the school’s star players in trouble. Everyone

would see it as my fault.

“Let me go,” I told him. “Let me go or I’ll bite.”

“Exactly what I had in mind.”

What? Why would he want me to bite him?

“Let me go,” I said.

He didn’t budge.

“Let. Me. GGo.”

Nothing.

Diving in, I sank my teeth into his jaw, hearing him let out

a chuckle, and bit down harder to shut him the hell up.

Asshole.

I couldn’t reach much, given my position, otherwise I’d go

for his ear and tear it off, but I clamped down on his bone, my

teeth digging into the skin.

Harder. I increased the pressure. Harder.

He froze, just standing there, and when his breathing

became raspy, I knew he was about to tap out and let me go. It

had to hurt.

But instead of freeing me, he stuttered, “Har—Harder.”

Rage twisted my face, and I bit down as hard as I could,

my teeth aching in my jaw, and I heard him pant and gasp, and

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