Page 125 of Their Wicked Secrets: Untouched, Vol 5 of 6

Ashley rolls her eyes. “For fuck’s sake, are you guys just Scooby Dooing this shit? Victoria Martinez. Her mom works for my dad. My dad works with William Foster. Her mom tells my dad all this shit about you. When I was younger, I didn’t understand why.”

Ashley shrugs, like it isn’t a big deal that one of Penny’s best friends reports to her father.

“Honestly, I’m surprised the guys haven’t caught on.”

“Eli told me one of them is probably in my father’s pocket.” Penny is pale, but she doesn’t let any emotion slip through.

Ashley smiles. “Good. Use that information. Don’t go all ballistic on your spy because you don’t know what William Foster has on her or her parents. People rarely do something for William Foster out of the kindness of their hearts. But you can feed him what you need to instead of letting her pick and choose.”

Ashley’s dark eyes fall on Kenz. I swallow. My heart skips a beat as I worry she’s going to tell me the same thing about Kenz.

“Keep being a bad ass bitch.” Ashley taps Kenz on the shoulder. “We need more of your kind in this school.”

Kenz straightens and totally preens under the praise.

“Don’t fuck up.” Ashley meets my eyes and then turns and walks away without a backward glance.

Nico

We’re huddled up, getting ready to head out to the field. “We’re winners and what do we do?” Coach shouts at my teammates.

“Win!” we all yell back.

It’s odd sitting on the bench while everyone gears up for the game. To know I’m going out there with them and have on my jersey, but I’m not really part of the team. I’m just a glorified benchwarmer.

Eli puts his hand on my shoulder and squeezes.

This fucking sucks.

“Who’s gonna win?” Coach yells.

“The Mustangs!”

“Who?”

“The Mustangs!” Some guys bang on the locker as everyone gets riled up.

“Give them hell!”

“Mustangs rule!”

Everyone filters out of the locker room, ready to crush this game. Eli hands me my crutches.

“You’ll go down with her before halftime.” Eli searches my eyes. “You good? Not high on pain meds.”

“Unless I can get high on Advil, no.” I didn’t like the way the drugs made me feel and haven’t been on them since right after surgery.

He walks with me behind the rest of the team. Harper and Kenz are leaning against the lockers near the door to the girls’ locker room. Harper smiles when she sees us and hugs Kenz quickly before falling in step beside us.

Luke’s jersey looks good on her with those tight jeans. I can’t wait until I’m off these crutches and can wrap my arm around my girl.

Tonight is about eliminating any risk of someone finding her alone. Which means she’ll always have someone with her.

Eli tugs on her ponytail. “Any issues?”

She shakes her head. “Overheard Sidney mouthing off, but nothing new.”

“You remember the plan?” he asks.