Page 270 of Craving Venom
We both turn to Zane.
He grins, lifting a brow. “I’m nothing if not thorough.”
“You—” My jaw drops. “You had someone text her from my phone?”
“I needed time,” he says, standing up and stretching. “And I didn’t want to be interrupted.”
“You issued a city-wide curfew just to fuck her?” Tria snaps.
I sit straight up. “You what?”
“Oh right,” Tria huffs, whirling to face me, “you must not have gotten the alert. Kind of hard to receive texts when he had your phone spoofed.”
“What alert?” My stomach flips.
“The one that said Nighthawk was planning to attack anyone within a two-mile radius of Veridian University,” she says, throwing her hands up.
She turns back to him.
“And looks like he just did.”
Zane just lifts his empty mug and pretends to sip.
“You weaponized an entire evacuation order to get uninterrupted sex?”
“I didn’t make the city evacuate,” he says, stretching his arms over his head. “I just encouraged it.”
“You,” I grab a pillow and hurl it at him. He catches it midair.
Tria doesn’t even wait for the dust to settle. “We had to evacuate, Faith. The entire west dorm was moved to the faculty lot. No one’s allowed within two miles of the courtyard.”
Oh my God.
That’s why the entire university felt deserted.
That’s why the elevators were empty. Why the rooftop was quiet. Why no one saw me. There was no one here to see.
I look at Zane again, but this time I’m not sure if I want to scream or kiss him.
I shake my head, still in shock. “You really emptied the school?”
“Every student within a ten-mile radius was told to shelter. All security redirected to the stadium. It’s their protocol. They’re predictable.”
“You’re a terrorist,” Tria hisses, pacing like she’s trying to keep from throwing herself out the window. “You’re literally the city’s most wanted threat, and I should call the cops.”
“You can.”
Tria grabs her phone, ready to call the cops.
“But I wouldn’t bother,” he adds. “The entire VPD building’s on lockdown. Someone triggered a gas leak in their server room around the same time the curfew went out. Funny how their emergency lines started ringing busy right after.”
My stomach drops.
“Might’ve been a coincidence but whole place’s been sealed for hours.” He checks the watch on the nightstand. “And it will remain like that for the next thirty-two minutes.”
I’m so mad I don’t even have words.
But my body…?
