There’s nothing worse than being stuck in an elevator with Leonidas Drakos.
After practicing for hours, I decided I needed a break and clicked the elevator button. But to my surprise, when the door opened, the grumpiest Drakos sibling was in there. Glaring right back at me. I considered taking the stairs, but turning around and walking away would only make me look weak.
“Look what the cat dragged in,” he muses, fidgeting with a chain around his neck.
The distance between us isn’t enough, even as he stands on the other side of the elevator.
“I’m glad to know I make you nervous.” I decide to push his buttons, nodding my chin at his hands. “Your sister was pretty nervous, too, the other night.”
Straightening from where he was leaning against the elevator wall, he takes a step toward me. “I don’t want to even hear you whisper her name around me.”
“Gonna have to get used to it. Your shit management put me in this position.”
I would love to see his face if he found out his sweet sister had been rubbing her pussy all over my dick. But that’s a confession for another day. Thank God the elevator dings and the doors open, but neither of us makes an effort to move.
“You hurt my sister, and I’ll find a way to ruin your entire life.” Clasping my shoulder, he squeezes. “I promise you that.”
He leaves without letting me reply back, but I’m sure I would let him destroy me if I did hurt her.
CHAPTER20
AMELIA
“You’re supposed to be on my side!” I scold my best friend, feeling her betrayal deep in my heart.
“I am on your side, so that’s exactly why I support this,” she whines as I snatch my phone from her grasp.
“There’s nothing to support. How many times do I have to tell you?” I give her an exhausted look. My fingers twiddle with the stem of a chocolate-covered strawberry.
Chocolate-covered strawberries are my favorite. I wish I didn’t feel so guilty after eating them. But they’re the one thing I get excited about consuming. And Trinity knows that, so she made me some.
I nearly cried at the kind gesture.
“But that was the hottest picture ever. I can’t stop thinking about it, and it’s been two weeks …” She trails off with a giant smile on her face.
“Two long weeks.” I sigh and plop down onto the bed she shares with my brother.
The hate that I had expected to get came full force, but there were also a lot of people who were excited about our forbidden relationship. But I decided it was best to delete Instagram and Twitter off my phone. Whenever I take a social media break, I always become happier and healthier, but it’s hard to stay off.
“You have lots of events coming up. Are you going with him?”
I shrug, dreading my future. “Probably. Everyone thinks he’s my boyfriend. It would be weird if we didn’t, and that was the entire purpose of this.”
After I posted that photo, both of our teams met up and explained how our sales and streams doubled in just a few days. And to be quite honest, I’m not surprised they did. Everyone loves a good scandal. I just wish I weren’t the one who had to go through this. The teams also wanted more content from us. They pushed us to go out so we’d be seen in public. But thinking about reaching out to him for absolutely anything has my skin crawling.
“The devil …” Trinity says randomly, breaking me out of my thoughts.
“Huh?”
Is this girl on drugs?
She rolls her eyes from where she lies beside me, reading on her Kindle. “He’s calling you,” she points out before going back to reading.
Dropping the paperback I’m reading onto my stomach—and I’m only reading it because Trinity is making me—I realize Justin is calling.Ugh.
“Hey, Justin.”
“You are to be at Levi’s house in thirty minutes. His manager has already warned him. We want you guys to do an Instagram live. Talk all about your relationship, where you met …” He pauses. “But make it believable. We’ll be watching.”
