A Hurt So Sweet Volume Two (Elite of Eden Falls Prep 2)

“He’s marrying you,” Easton mutters, giving me a long look. “That’s fucking why.”

I’m rendered speechless for a moment before I say, “That’s not even true anymore.”

“What?”

“My father,” I groan. “He broke off the engagement after…”

I stare at him, unsure whether I should say what I was going to. But he knows I’m not a virgin anymore already…

“You know, after Dexter had sex with me,” I finish.

“Did he hurt you?” Easton demands. “Was it forced?”

“I…” I shake my head. “I wanted to.”

This seems to surprise him, and he’s about to say something when his eye catches something.

“Fuck. Pandora, we need to go. Right the fuck now.”

I follow his gaze to find Julian and Dexter walking down from the school. Dexter’s smoking a cigarette, taking long drags of the poison stick while he walks directly toward us.

“They’ll see us now,” I panic. “We can’t leave, we’re stuck here.”

“Come on,” he mutters, grabbing me by the forearm. “Hurry.”

“My textbooks!”

“Leave them.”

He takes off, dragging me along with him, and I quickly fall into step beside him, running away from the two intimidating figures who are hot on our trail.

“Where’s your ride?” I ask Easton mid-run.

“Before the school, a driver should be waiting, we just need to…”

“You just need to what?”

Caspian materializes in front of us, lazily smoking a joint as he regards us with cool indifference. He takes a long drag, staring at me hungrily through the smoke coming off his blunt.

"Going somewhere?" he asks us, raising a brow at us.

"Anywhere where you aren't," I hiss in response, making him smirk and put out the blunt with his boot.

He approaches us lazily, like a predator that's confident enough to toy with his prey before he ends its life.

"Booth! Over here!" he calls out, and the sound of two pairs of feet jogging toward us makes me realize just how much trouble I'll be in now.

But I'm determined to stand up for myself this time around. I'm not going to let Dexter walk all over me anymore. He may think he owns me, but I'm done playing this game of cat and mouse.

"Well well well," he speaks up a moment later, once he's reached us, and the three of them have surrounded us, preventing us from getting away. "Consorting with the enemy, I see. Brantley."

"Booth," Easton half-mutters, half-snarls.

The two boys nod at one another. There's no love lost between them; I can already tell. And when they're standing as close as they are right now, I can really feel their magnetic presence. They're both powerful in Eden Falls, but Dexter still has that upper hand.

"I have to say, Brantley, I don't much appreciate you hanging around my fiancée," Dex hisses.

"Ex-fiancée," Easton corrects him.