Turtle,my ass. Dude was fast as fuck.
“Anyway, that’s why my dad is opening up Leviathans for an annual surf competition. He says it’ll bring loads of money into the town. I’ve already been training formonths.”
It was like someone turned the sound off, and all of a sudden, all my attention zoned in on Chip fucking Skylark’s stupid face.
“He can’t do that, man,” I said dumbly, knowing that Riddick would absolutelylose his mindif something like that happened.
The guy scoffed, taking a giant swig of his beer. “Of course he can. My dad’s the mayor of Stars Cove. He can do whatever he wants.”
That’s when it clicked.Tully.That must be this kid’s last name. He was Mayor Tully’s son.
I glared at him, shaking my head.
“Nah, man. Leviathans is onmyproperty. I bought Jake Whittling’s old place. There’s no way I would let him do that.” Feeling pleased with myself, I took another swig of my rootbeer.
Tully just started laughing. “God, you’re dumber than I gave you credit for. Leviathans falls under the Public Trust Doctrine. Even if it’s technically on your land, it’s still owned by the state and is open for public use. You think my dad would start putting something like this together without checking all his boxes?”
I scowled.
What the fuck? What was even the point of buying land if everyone could just do whatever the fuck they wanted on my property anyway?
I rubbed my temple, suddenly feeling like I was getting a headache.
“Is Kyle bothering you?” I glanced up to find Quinn standing there with her hands on her hips and a scowl on her pretty face.
“Quinn, baby. I was just teaching this jerk off the basics of California property law,” he said, puffing out his chest like that made him cool instead of a complete dweeb.
“Ew, Kyle. I’m not your baby. Why don’t you crawl back under whatever rock you scuttled out of?”
His expression changed from amused to violent so quickly that I had to blink to keep up.
Suddenly, he was grabbing Quinn’s arms so hard she cried out in pain, and he was snarling in her face.
“You think you can talk to me like that, you stupid bitch?” he spat.
My mouth dropped open in surprise. What thefuck!?I’d gotten the feeling this guy was a piece of shit, but I wasn’t expecting this level of depravity.
Quinn didn’t look surprised, but she didn’t cower either. She turned her angry green eyes on him andspatdirectly in his face.
“Youcunt!” he bellowed and tossed her down into the sand like she was a rag doll. He pulled his foot back, and I suddenly realized that he was planning tokickher.
“Oh,hellno!” I snapped.
I kicked out his knee on the leg that he’d put all his weight on, and he collapsed into the sand next to Quinn.
I was on him in a second.
“You like to hit girls?” I snarled, cocking my fist back and slamming it into his nose so hard blood gushed out. “Why don’t you try fucking with someone who hits back, huh?” I slammed my fist into his stupid, ugly teeth and grunted as I split a knuckle open on his veneers.
“Finn! Stop!” Quinn was shouting and pulling me off the little douchebag, who was now sputtering and spitting blood into the sand.
“You’re gonna pay for that!” Kyle yelled at me as he got to his feet.
I lunged for him again, but he turned tail and ran like the little bitch he was. He was lucky Quinn was holding me back, or I would have given him a black eye to go with his broken nose.
“What a fucking asshole,” I growled, and Quinn gently took my throbbing hand in hers and held it up to examine the damage.
“You shouldn’t have done that, Finn.” She sighed.
