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With that, I stalked out of her room and outside to my bike. I needed to get out of here for a while. Fuck knew I had to put some distance between Ivy and me. And I wouldn’t be hurrying back to her any-fucking-time soon.
22
Lily
* * *
I stared down at my phone, hoping I’d imagined the text flashing on my screen.
I blinked, trying to get the words to disappear.
Surely it wasn’t real.
He wouldn’t.
Fuck, he probably would.
My ex was that dumb, he would.
I blinked again, squeezing my eyes tightly, praying for the text to be gone when I opened my eyes.
Shit, it was still there.
“Motherfucker,” I cursed.
I shot off a text to my sister in response to hers.
* * *
Me: I’m going to fucking kill him.
Brynn: Ooh, let me do it first.
Me: Do not let Zara out of your sight. She is NOT going on that date tonight.
Brynn: Hurry home, sis. She’s already applying her makeup.
* * *
I called her. “I swear, I’m going to wrap my hands around his throat and squeeze every last fucking breath from him. And then I’m going to get a knife and stab him so many times that when they sentence me for my crime, they’ll give me the death penalty even though they don’t give that to anyone anymore. I’m going to make him fucking hurt for this shit. This is the last time Linc screws with me!”
I was on my way to see Skylar King, but realised I needed a moment, or fifty, to calm down before I saw her, so I spun around to head outside for a smoke first. I stopped abruptly when I came face-to-face with Skylar’s brother.
King.
He watched me with an intensity that flustered me.
“Shit, Brynn, I’ve gotta go,” I rambled into my phone, not giving her a chance to respond to what I’d already said. “I’ll be home as fast as I can this afternoon. And thanks for the heads up.” Ending the call, I shoved my phone into my pocket and took a step backwards, away from King. “Hi,” I said, completely muddled by both the news Brynn had given me and the fact King was right there. I mean, he was so damn close and staring at me so intently that my thoughts had become a jumbled mess.
“Remind me never to piss you off,” he said, that voice of his a deep rumble that did things to me. Things I wasn’t used to from the men I spoke to. Goodness, he was dangerously sexy this close.
“Huh?” I had no idea what he meant. Especially not when all I could focus on was the way he watched me.
“The threat of strangulation and a stabbing frenzy.”
“Oh, that. Right.”
His lips twitched slightly, like he was amused by me. “Someone close?”
