Forgotten Rules (Rules 4)

I twist Callie’s hair around my fist, imagining Kass’s pale blue eyes looking up at me. Her lips wrapped around my…

Fuuuck.

I get even harder, sucking in a breath and banishing thoughts of Kass from my brain. My arousal immediately dies down.

“What’s wrong?” Callie hisses.

“Nothing,” I snap.

What’s wrong is you don’t do shit for me anymore. My phone buzzes before she can respond. I pick it off her bed. Kendrick’s calling. Four missed calls?

What the…

Something’s up.

“I have to go.” I shove Callie off me within seconds, jumping to my feet and adjusting my pants.

“Are you kidding me?” she spits.

“Look, it was great and everything, but I don’t think this is going to work out.”

“Are you…” She blinks in disbelief. “Are you saying you don’t want us to sleep together anymore?”

Appreciating her making this easier for me, I seize the opportunity to shut that chapter of my life.

For good.

“That’s exactly what I’m saying.” I swing her bedroom door open, dashing down the stairs without looking back.

“Fuck you!” she shouts.

“No, thank you,” I fire back, slamming the front door and sprinting toward my car. Kendrick’s call goes to voicemail before I can answer, so I call him back.

“What’s wrong?” I say the second he picks up, putting my phone on speakerphone and tossing it onto the passenger seat as I drive away.

“Have you talked to Alex today?” Kendrick blurts, the panic in his voice unmissable.

“No?”

“Damn it. Where the fuck is he?”

“Why? What’s going on?”

“I can’t reach him. Something happened with Kass.”

I hit the brakes so abruptly someone honks at me. Pulling over to the side of the road, I grab my phone and turn up the volume all the way.

“What happened to Kass?”

“I wanted to tell her. I never meant for her to find out this way. I’m so fucking stupid,” Kendrick rambles.

“Kendrick, what the fuck happened to Kass?” I growl, his semi-breakdown testing my resolve. I need answers. And fast. He tells me Kass heard about her dad wanting to meet up with Kendrick at some restaurant, showed up there herself, and found out her parents got a divorce because he was banging one of his students, who also happens to be Kass’s boss.

“Damn. And I thought my family was fucked-up,” I mutter. “How’d she take it?”

“How do you think? She freaked. She went apeshit on me and took off. I can’t find her anywhere. She’s not at home, she’s not at Morgan’s. I’m worried something’s happened to her.”

I want to smack him for letting her drive in this state.