Did Mike seriously ask me if I was interested in Dean? Well, he didn’t exactly use the word interested. I swear his vocabulary only consisted of insults and vulgarities. I would have to answer him in the right way or I’d be in a lot more pain that I already was. Thankfully, I could usually figure out what Mike expected of me. “No! Of course not,” I told him. “I know my place, Mike.”
Dean didn’t seem at all surprised when I told him the alpha wanted to frame him. “I figured my uncle would try something,” he said, then his expression turned dark. Dean was so tense he looked like he might snap in two if he tried to move. “But why did Mike tell you that?”My shoulders lifted in a shrug
MikeI looked at the sunlight filtering through the tree limbs. The numbness brought on by the Jack Daniels was gone. Now I was stiff with a damp ass. Damn, why didn’t I notice the wet ground when I sat down? Standing, I stretched all the kinks out. I wondered if Missy ever got out of the woods. I meant to tell her the w
I sat on my bed, legs bent and arms resting on my knees. Mom lectured me for nearly an hour before she let me go to my room. There was a moment I thought of telling her everything. Part of me wanted to, but I couldn’t. Despite all that had happened so far, it didn’t change the fact that Mom needed Harry. If she knew the truth, it would force her to choose between us.
After math, which was particularly horrible by the way, I hurried to my next class. As soon as I sat down, I took out my phone and texted Anna back.Don’t get too excited. It was nothing. I think he and Mike are planning something nasty.
I followed Ryder down near the shore. We sat down at a small picnic table some hundred feet from the shore. “Here,” he said, pushing a bag towards me, then looked hesitant. “You’re not a vegetarian, are you? Sorry, I should’ve asked before I left.”“Nah, you’re good,” I told him, taking out the burger a
When Ryder stopped in front of my house, I couldn’t help but give in to another kiss. Were all Ryder’s kisses going to be like this; so addicting? I wanted more and more of them. I can tell you Gerald’s kisses weren’t like this at all!Someone knocked on the window, causing me to jump so hard the
Mike recovered faster than I expected, and I had only run halfway down the hallway when he grabbed me. He snatched the back of my hoodie and swung me around, throwing me face first into the lockers. Pain exploded in my head and my vision went white. When color and shapes bled into the white, I realized I was on the ground. Something warm ran down the side of my face and when I wiped it away, blood covered my fingers. My heart stuttered, and I looked up at Mike. The look of fury on his face was like nothing I’d seen before. He was going to kill me! A scream ripped from my throat and I scrambled to get to my feet.I screamed again when his hand wrap around my arm.“Keep your hands off her,” Ryder demanded in a gruff growl.“Get lost, Deano! This has nothing to do with you. She’s mine, and I do what I want with her.”A growl rumbled through the hallway and I looked back towards Ryder. I sucked in a breath at the similarity in his and Mike’s expressions. “Brook isn’t yours,” he told Mike.
I glanced at Mom, then to Harry. Despite what I had seen today, I still believed Harry loved Mom and he wouldn’t ever hurt her. I gave the doctor my attention and, with a small dip of my head, nodded at him to continue.After pulling on a pair of white latex gloves from a small brown leather bag, I now