Total pages in book: 144
Estimated words: 137654 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 688(@200wpm)___ 551(@250wpm)___ 459(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 137654 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 688(@200wpm)___ 551(@250wpm)___ 459(@300wpm)
He smiles. “This is gonna be so much fun.”
The door opens, and a few students walk in. The last one is a blonde by the name of Natalia. She spots me right away and plops down in the free seat to my left. Deke grunts when he sees her.
“Hey, Cole,” she says excitedly.
I don’t acknowledge her.
Deke speaks to me. “I have a feeling she is gonna surprise us.”
“Doubtful.”
He snorts. “You don’t give her enough credit.” He sits back in his seat. “I see the way she looks at you.”
“Oh, yeah? How’s that?” I can’t get the look of want she gave me out of my mind from my party or in her room. I should have taken her up on her offer. Next time she throws herself at me, I’m not gonna back down. She’ll have me. And she’ll realize what a mistake wanting me is.
“Like she wants to rip your heart out,” he answers.
I smile.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if your dare is that she wants you to jump off a cliff.” Deke chuckles to himself. “Or stab yourself in the eyes.”
“How was your winter break?” Natalia asks, not caring that she’s interrupting our conversation.
“Hey, Nat!” Deke calls out, leaning forward in his seat to look past me to her. “His break was great. He’s seeing someone so quit trying.”
“Dick,” she mumbles but sits back and doesn’t say anything else to me.
I look over at Deke, and he winks. “You’re welcome.”
I chuckle.
An hour later, Deke and I are walking out of class. I was planning to get Austin at her classroom, but she’s already standing in the hall, leaning up against a locker right outside the door. Her arms are crossed over her chest, and a look of rage flares in her green eyes. She looks like she wants me dead. And that thought makes my body heat rise.
“Guess she saw the video.” Deke laughs.
She throws him a fuck you look, and then her eyes are back on mine. “You had him record that on purpose,” she snaps.
“No.” Not a lie. “That implies I was aware you were going to throw yourself at me.” She gasps as I step into her, pressing my body into hers. Her eyes hold mine as she stares up at me, not pushing me away or backing down. “You have to admit the way you asked me to fuck you was sexy as fuck.”
She sucks in a long breath, her chest rising in the process. “I didn’t watch the whole thing.”
I lower my face to her neck, and my hands go to her narrow hips. I can’t keep my hands to myself anymore. “Well, then you need to watch it again.”
“No thanks. I saw enough.” She huffs, but her body physically melts into mine.
I kiss her neck, and her hands come up to my shirt, gripping it tightly like she wants to rip it off me. “You still want me to fuck you, Austin?”
“Don’t,” she warns me breathlessly.
My lips trail up to her ear, and I nibble on it. She whimpers. “Because I still wanna break you, sweetheart. Like …”
“Cole!”
I let out a growl as I hear Kellan call out my name. I pull away from a panting Austin and look over at him. He stands with Deke and Shane.
“What?” I snap.
His dark narrowed eyes go to Austin, then back to mine. “I need to talk to you.”
“Later,” I say and grab her hand, yanking her away from the locker and pulling her down the hallway toward second period.
“What you did was not okay, Cole,” she says as I shove her into a seat. I sit down next to her.
“Out of all the things I’ve done to you in the past week and that is the thing you are gonna harp on about?”
Her green eyes narrow. “This has to do with my reputation.”
I snort and look away from her.
“I’m serious.” She slams her delicate hand down on my desk. “You’re trying to make the school think I’m a whore.”
“Are you?”
Her eyes widen, and then she purses her lips. She sits back in her seat, folding her arms over her chest again. I lean over, whispering, “How many guys have you fucked, Austin?”
“Fuck you, Cole,” she replies flatly.
I go to open my mouth, but the teacher gets our attention, so I sit back and watch her anger simmer. Thinking how explosive she is going to be when I finally give her what she wants.
AUSTIN
Sitting in the cafeteria with the guys, I’m still pissed at Cole. Every guy in the freaking school seems to know my name. And that I want to spread my legs for him. I guess Deke has like tens of thousands of followers. Becky did say he was an attention whore.
Cole sits to my left and Deke to my right. They’ve got me sandwiched in as if I’m going to get up and run toward the nearest exit. I wanted to sit with Becky, but I haven’t seen her since first period, and I didn’t get her number.