Page 85 of Vega

I pushed all four of them out of the kitchen before their playful bullshit made Sonnet uncomfortable.

At least, that was the excuse I gave myself. Truthfully, I needed them away from her before one of them made her laugh again and I forgot they were family.

“Go sit in the den,” I ordered. “Let her cook in peace.”

Lux looked over his shoulder toward the kitchen. “I wasn’t bothering her.”

“You’ve been in the house three minutes and already invited everybody to eat her food.”

“She gotta learn how to feed the family if—”

I grabbed him by the collar and shoved him through the doorway, stopping his sentence and making him bust out laughing.

Once we reached the den, Lowe dropped onto the couch while Prodigy and Wise claimed the chairs. Lux remained near the entrance, probably trying to be the first to see when an omelet was finished.

Wise looked at me with a raised brow. “Sonnet is nineties fine.”

Lux nodded immediately. “Hell yeah. Thick, pretty, glasses, natural face. She looks like she belongs in an old R&B video.”

“She’s beautiful,” Prodigy agreed. “I understand why you’re losing your mind now.”

“I’m not losing my mind.”

Lowe laughed. “You looked like you wanted to kill something when she laughed at what Prodigy said.”

“No, I didn’t.”

“All of us saw it,” Wise replied.

Lux stared at me. “She been locked in this house for over a week, and you still haven’t fucked her?”

I bit my bottom lip with regret. “There’s an… issue.”

Wise folded his arms. “What?”

“She’s …a virgin.”

Wise frowned. “You’re lying.”

“That’s what she told me.”

Lux’s eyebrows lifted. “And you believe her?”

“She hasn’t given me a reason not to.”

“Even if she is, what difference does it make?” Wise asked.

“She can’t give me a real yes while she thinks sex might convince me to release her or keep her alive. I don’t want that type of pussy.”

The room went quiet.

Lux looked genuinely surprised. “That has never stopped you from fucking anybody before.”

“I’ve never kidnapped anybody I wanted to fuck before.”

“That sentence alone should concern all of us,” Lowe laughed.

Wise kept his eyes on me. “But?”