Chapter 21

Harper

His kiss is brutal. Punishing. Like he’s mad that it’s me, even though I’ve neither confirmed nor denied his accusation.

That’s what his words felt like-an accusation. I don’t think he’s pleased to discover that I’m the one he keeps kissing in dark corners at parties. Yet he’s also the guy who felt me up in a janitor’s closet and got me off with a few precise strokes of his fingers.

A shiver steals through me at the

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memory. Or maybe the shiver was caused by the way his tongue just slid against mine

I reach between us, resting my hands on his broad chest. His skin is so warm beneath the fabric of his shirt, and his muscles are firm. Hard. He’s hard all over. I’m tempted to pull him closer, but I come to my senses at the last second and shove him with all my might

His mouth detaches from mine and he stumbles backwards, a dazed look on his face as he drinks me in. “What the fuck?”

We can’t keep doing this,” I say.

“Right. Funny how we do keep doing it. Because you’re her,he

states.

“Who’s her?” I’m still playing

stupid.

Easton shakes his head. “Don’t try and fake me out. I recognize your scent”

“I bought it at a store every girl know shops at.” That isn’t a lie. Dozens of us could be wearing this lotion right now.

how he’s looking at me. As if he can see right through me. “You can protest

I know it’s

air growing charged between us the longer we say nothing. I tear my gaze from his first storming away from

also sad he didn’t chase

I put one foot in front of the other and make my way to the classroom. Less than one hour until I can leave this place. I’ll go home

says the little voice in my brain. You’re dying for him to touch you

him. He hates me, he wants to touch me. He thinks I’m a

I don’t understand him.

Blake spot me and make his way over to my desk,

“You okay?”

him, surprised at the tenderness in his tone, the way he’s watching me as

fine,” I say once

look-flustered. Your cheeks

I tell

still giving

 

way to put

is, I’ll take that asshole out. I mean it, Harper. I don’t know why he’s suddenly got such a hard on for you, but if

Blake’s voice is ferocious, as is the gleam

to me. “And I don’t need you to fight my battles, Blake.

I see you two together, he’s doing his damnedest to tear you down while you stand there and just take it. He makes you

want to run to my rescue? I don’t

 

it for him? “I’m

who normally sits next to me in history approaches his desk –the very

his chin at him.

“You’re in my seat.”

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