Chapter 182

Jerome and I come back a few hours later after an afternoon

of light chat. We kept it easy, neither of us wanting to address

the elephant between us. Instead, we talk mostly about horses.

When we enter the house we’re too busy laughing, the dregs of

our milkshakes still in our hands, to notice Kent standing in the

hallway staring at us.

Jerome notices first, stopping in his tracks and clearing his throat,

the smile dropping from his face. Kent says nothing, just slowly puts his hands in his pockets and shifts his weight to his back foot, giving us both a long stare.

Something about it – I don’t know what, maybe the arrogance in his stance, or the way that he stopped us both in our tracks just by standing there – makes me roll my eyes. Despite everything – all of the trauma of the afternoon, and the crazy intimidation I felt on the third floor last night – Kent’s macho bullshit still makes me want to

push back.

“My dad wasn’t in the mood to feed me,” I report calmly, “so Jerome took me to get cheeseburgers and milkshakes. You want some?” Innocently, I hold my milkshake out to him, straw first.

Kent’s eyes flick to the milkshake and then back up to my face. “No, Fay,” he responds, his voice low. Then he nods to Jerome, dismissing him. Jerome is gone before I can even see him move,

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called me,” Kent

refuse to move an inch. “He says you were… disrespectful.” Slowly, he raises a hand to my

  1. flinch. Kent drops his hand.

the PG version of what he actually

replies, still standing close to me. “I didn’t think you’d like it very much if I told you

that tugs at my lips as I look up

to see Kent give me one

at the sight of this,

I quite liked

want to please him again.

suddenly, I am hit

frightened I was when he moved

places no one has touched before. And I flinch away, knowing – deep down – that

Not

choked as I take a step back from him, looking at the floor.

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to the side and work to move past him. “I’m just going to go

again, insistent, placing a hand on my waist

him. “Please,”

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