My heart dropped, and I dug my nails so deep into my palms that I swore I drew blood.Really?Was this all just to make me jealous?It didn’t matter because all we had done was fuck.That was all.Nothing else.
After tearing my glare away from him, I continued with Cairo through Redwood’s halls.Students were laughing, fighting, screaming, and shouting at each other, but I kept my lips pressed tightly together and didn’t say a word.
I don’t care what Calix does.
Down the hall, I spotted Frasier with his arm wrapped around some pretty cheerleader’s waist, and I paused for a moment.
What the fuck was wrong with me?Why did I care what The Crew did?I couldn’t.I didn’t.
Frasier was a man-whore, so I expected nothing less from him, even after our time in his car Friday morning.He wasn’t someone who could only be with one woman.Never mind with me.I was just that nerdy girl he used.
But why did it sting so badly to see my best friend’s brother with another girl?Why was I this furious?Fuck.No, I wasn’t catching feelings.I couldn’t catch feelings.I had already promised Diya that I would never betray her like Mira had.
I’d vowed never to do that.She didn’t deserve it.She was too sweet.
Rush shouldered me from behind, shoving me into the locker and storming down the hall.His fists were clenched by his sides, and I honestly didn’t think that he realized what he had just done.Still though, that shit pissed me off.
“What’s Rush’s problem?”I asked Cairo, straightening myself out.
“You know Rush … he’s always like that.”
“Why?Why is he always grumpy?”
Cairo paused for a long moment, looking over at Rush about to turn the corner.The muscles in his back were flexing against his gray T-shirt that hugged his body, and all I wanted to do was drag my nails down his?—
No, Astrid, we’re done fucking these guys.Everyone except maybe Cairo …
I wouldn’t catch feelings for Cairo.Not at all.He wasn’t my type.Not even a little bit.
The bell rang, and Cairo shuffled backward.“I got to get to class.I have an exam.”
“Okay.”I waved.“I guess I’ll see you in Physics.”
He scurried away, and while he was a bit scrawnier than the others—God—this morning had been so fucking sexy.I hadn’t thought that sweet and shy Cairo had it in him to be that … dominant.And what had he meant about getting in his bed?Was he more dominant there than this morning?I pressed my thighs together.
I would doanythingto find myself in his bed.I turned on my heel.Anything?—
“Hellcat,” Arch murmured as I bumped straight into his hard chest.I craned my head up to look into those dark and vicious eyes.His lips were curled into a smirk, and he snatched my upper arm.“We have to talk.”
“Get off me,” I said, trying to push him away.“I have to get to first period.”
“Oh, I don’t think you’re going to make it to class today.”
CHAPTERTHIRTEEN
ARCH
“You didn’t come homelast night,” I said, squeezing Astrid’s upper arm and tugging her through the hallway.
She tried yanking herself out of my hold, but I wasn’t letting her go anywhere.No, she was my little plaything now.Almost all the others had spent time alone with her, even Cairo, for fuck’s sake.It was my turn.
“Let me go, you asshole,” she hissed, glaring at me.
I shoved her into an empty classroom.“Sleeping around?”
She cradled her arm and flared her nostrils at me.“You like to get on my very last nerve every single day of my life, don’t you?!Ever since our parents got married, you haven’t gone a day without something stupid coming out of your mouth.”
My lips curled into a smirk.Angry Astrid was the sexiest.
