Dirty Wicked Prince (Court Legacy 1)

It was all I had.

It was me and my revenge, but somehow, this girl continued to fight her way through the layers of it.

My hand moved to her hip, and I opened my mouth. I had no idea what I was about to say.

The screams cut me off.

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Sloane

Dorian bolted, and I almost lost him in the tall grass.

That said something considering he grabbed me.

He dragged me literally alongside him. Two boys ahead of us were yelling and screaming. I didn’t recognize either one, and when the pair of us got in the clearing, I identified them as two boys from school. I didn’t know their names, but I recognized them as kids from the Court, Dorian’s posse.

The guys were shouting in the direction of a lake and where Dorian and I’d been searching, I hadn’t seen it until now. It’d been hidden behind the tall grass.

One of the boys was completely wet, like he’d gone in the water, which was crazy. The waves of dark water lapped in the night breeze, and it was basically pitch black out here.

“The fuck’s going on?” Dorian’s voice boomed in the air. He finally let go of me, and I nearly stumbled. He went so fast. Both boys shot around, and Dorian’s eyes expanded. “Ryder, what the hell?” he said to one of them before facing the other. “Josh, that you?”

The guys ran toward Dorian and me. The one he called Josh was wet, completely soaked when he got to us.

“It was an accident, Dorian,” Josh panted, his face completely red. “I went after him, but I couldn’t get him.”

Dorian’s face twitched. “Who?”

“That kid Bru from the team.” Josh shot his finger in the direction of the water. “We were trying to initiate him and—”

“Initiate him into what!” I screamed, but Dorian was shaking Josh.

“Bru’s fucking out there?” Dorian shot out, but when Josh nodded his head, he let go. He ran toward that dark water.

And went in.

He hiked his thick legs until the water got him to his waist. He glided in then, pulling broad strokes while the water lapped and chopped around him. He called Bru’s name, turning and going deeper into that dark water. The waves covered him, and I screamed, racing out toward him.

Ryder jerked me back.

“Don’t,” he urged. Josh took my other arm. Ryder’s expression turned grim. “You’ll get lost too.”

Lost.

This isn’t happening.

My brother wasn’t out there right now, and Dorian hadn’t just gone underneath the dark water to get him.

I couldn’t even see Dorian now. He’d disappeared, and I shoved both the guys off me.

“Bru!” I went into ankle-deep water, cupping my mouth. “Dorian!”

My gaze searched rapidly through the moving waves, but no words returned to me. The lake was so dark and completely unsteady.

No.

Sickness swirled my gut, and I honest to God thought I’d be sick all over myself. I couldn’t breathe, but I tread deeper into the water. I couldn’t just stand here and do nothing.