Total pages in book: 59
Estimated words: 56261 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 281(@200wpm)___ 225(@250wpm)___ 188(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 56261 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 281(@200wpm)___ 225(@250wpm)___ 188(@300wpm)
“Is he your boyfriend?” she asked Adalyn while staring at Angel like she wanted to rip his clothes off. She had also asked the question loud enough to where he could easily hear.
Looking at her strangely, Adalyn couldn’t believe this girl had asked her that. “Um … no.”
“Good.” She beamed, already going up to him. “Would you like to go out som—”
“No thanks,” Angel cut her off in a cold voice without even looking at her.
Blinking with holy-fuck-did-that-even-happen, that-shit-was-cold, I’m-a-heterosexual-girl-and-even-I-looked-twice faces, both Lake and Adalyn couldn’t believe what they were witnessing when the girl walked away, practically in shame. Turning their heads to look at each other, they could only stare at the other in shock for a few minutes.
Okay, maybe we are in a romance novel.
Swallowing hard, Lake looked like she was getting hot as she tried her best to whisper over, “So, we like him again?”
“Definitely.”
Nineteen
I Could Show You Sometime, Sweetness
All the girls decided to eat in the cafeteria, considering it was a pizza day. Even Maria had thrown her salad out the window to eat a slice.
“What happened to him?” Elle asked, eyeing Angel at where he sat a few tables away. She was clearly out of the loop.
“He got beat up,” Adalyn told her simply, not sure if she could give more information than that. They were all Carusos, and the mafia princess was sitting at the table.
Putting down her pizza, the girl who didn’t want to be around him due to her friend being captured by the Lucianos, Elle almost seemed concerned. “Who did that to him?”
Does he just get irresistible when he’s hurt or something?
Not knowing what to say to her, Adalyn tried to skate around it. “Uh … I’m not—”
“Carusos,” Maria told her, throwing down her pizza. It was almost unexpected the way she had said it. For a girl who really didn’t like him and who had strong roots to the family she loved so much, there was a bit of disdain in her voice when she had said the family name.
Elle seemed appalled. “Really? Which ones?”
Looking over at Maria, Adalyn wondered if she knew. When she didn’t answer, though, Adalyn simply shrugged, not wanting to speak Joey’s name. “Don’t know yet.”
“I wonder if Nero would know?” Elle’s eyes hadn’t moved from him.
“I’m going to ask Vincent, too,” Lake agreed, also staring at him.
For Christ’s sake, what is happening? They already have sexy, hot men! Especially Elle! Nero is Lucca’s only slightly less hot brother! That family had something weird in their blood, like they descended from God Himself. She looked over at Angel now. And he was created by Satan! Okay … maybe by a really, really good-looking Satan, but still! Shit, he is hot.
It took everything Lake had to look away from him. “Maria, I have a question.”
“Yes?” the blonde who was also descended from God answered.
“Have you seen any of Angel’s brothers or the other Lucianos?”
“A few. Why?”
Not wasting time, Lake got right to the point. “Are they hot?”
Adalyn found herself scooting to the edge of her seat, waiting for the next words out of Maria’s mouth. Even Elle leaned in closer, her interest piqued, too.
Flipping her hair behind her shoulder, Maria then picked up her pizza. “Nope.”
“Told ya.” Adalyn smiled righteously over at a soul-crushed Lake before taking a big bite out of her pizza.
That shit’s for fairy tales.
Leaving the last class of the day, Adalyn didn’t know how she felt about Angel anymore. She liked him, and then she didn’t, especially when he ignored her like he used to when they were in the cafeteria. He had only paid attention to her when Lake was around.
Jerk.
On the way to the car, her eyes were drawn to the guy who had tried to run into her on the skateboard, along with some guys behind him, who had been laughing and watching that day. They were giving her and Lake uncomfortable feelings with their glances.
“You girls all alone today?” The skateboarder stepped closer.
Angel came up behind them, walking in the middle as he placed his arm around Adalyn, showing him that they weren’t.
The skater looked shocked for a moment to see him again, not recognizing him at first. Then he noticed his rough appearance. He continued following them from a short distance away with his group backing him up.
“I was wondering what happened to you. Should have known someone put you in your place.”
Continuing to pull the girls along, Angel acted like they didn’t exist.
When they didn’t stop following them, Adalyn started to get pissed.
“Will you fuck off—”
Pulling her into his side, Angel shut her up.
Walking in front of them, the skateboarder stopped dead in his tracks, forcing them to stop abruptly, too. “What did your bitch just say?” There was a look in his eyes that told her she had pissed him off.