I sigh at my friend’s message, then put my phone away and exit the bathroom. The blinding lights and music are giving me a headache, so I walk past the bar and out the exit. I’ll go somewhere else. A hole in the wall where no one knows me. Making my way to the back of the parking lot I come to a stop when I see my front tire is flat.
Looking up at the dark sky, I silently curse this fucking planet for my string of bad luck lately.
“You know if you get hurt, Bones is gonna kill you.”
I tense at the mention ofBones. I whip around to see Titan and Grave walking in the parking lot.
What did they do with those guys?
“Hey, Titan. It’s that girl over there.” I hear Grave call out, and I’m thankful he didn’t recognize me.
I never hung out at Bones’s father’s house. He came to mine to fuck me, and that was that. We didn’t date. We were both very aware of our situation. He wanted to get his dick sucked, and I fell to my knees every chance we had. The kids feared him. High school and college. He never showed any emotion over anything. His only love was baseball. He was gonna go pro until he didn’t. That day was a very bad day. For the both of us.
Titan says nothing.Why isn’t he calling me out?
“What’s she just doing standing there?” Grave asks him. “Let’s go find out.” He removes his hands from his pocket and lifts them up in the air, walking up to me.
“What the fuck are you doing, man?” Titan asks, sounding irritated.
“I’m showing her I have no weapons,” Grave says. “Don’t want her to think I’m gonna attack her or anything.”
Oh, Dear Lord! He really thinks I’m deaf.
Titan stops before me and looks at me expectantly. He knows I can hear, but he’s not gonna say it. He’s waiting to see how long I can play this game.
I narrow my eyes on him and cross my arms over my chest.
I go to open my mouth, but Grave speaks. “Fuck, her tire is flat!”
Titan looks at me. “Have a spare?” he asks me.
Like he would fix it anyway.I shake my head.
Grave smiles. “She can read lips.”
Titan snorts.
“She could ride with us,” Grave offers.
I go to open my mouth to sayhell no, but the words die on my lips when an evil smile spreads across Titan’s face.
He looks the same as he did in college but also different. His blue eyes darker, his jaw even more defined. The black wing tattoo around his neck moves as he swallows. He wears a black V-neck shirt, and a pair of black Aviators hang off the collar. He runs his tongue over his perfectly white teeth as his eyes look me up and down like he wants to eat me alive.
He and I never got along in school. He treated women like they were disposable. He went through them like most girls go through underwear. And his senior year in high school, their English teacher got fired. The rumor was he fucked her in the back seat of her car on school property, and her husband caught them. Of course she was the only one that was punished for their sexual activities.
“Yeah.” He finally speaks and gives me a nod as he rubs his finger over his bottom lip. “We’ll give her a ride.”
The way his deep voice saysride,I think he means the kind that involves me naked and him on top of me. My heart begins to pound in my chest, and I take a step back from them.
Grave rolls his eyes. “You’re scaring her.”
Titan stares down at me, his arms still crossed over his chest and that snake of a smile on his face. “Am I scaring you?”
I narrow my eyes on his.
“I’ll go get the car. You stay here with her,” Grave announces and then walks away.
Titan steps up to me.
