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“As he should. You’re a student at BCA and all students must attend.”
His looks haven’t changed much and he’s just as infuriating as he ever was. “Cut the bullshit, Crew. You and I both know I will not do a damn thing you assholes ask of me. If anything, I won’t attend justbecauseyou’ve demanded it.”
His lip curls. “I can see your stubbornness hasn’t faded.”
“This has nothing to do with being stubborn and everything to do with you all trying to destroy me.”
“We did what we had to do.”
I can feel the rage climbing through my body and filling my cheeks with insatiable heat. “Oh yeah? You just had to make it look like I was cheating on our exams? Or that I stole school property?” My voice rises to an uncontrollable shout. “Of course, let’s not forget setting my principal’s fucking shed on fire.”
His arrogance is trying. “You’re here, aren’t you?”
“Yeah, Crew. I’m here. So what are you fucktards going to do now that I am?”
“Don’t you worry your pretty little head.” He smirks. “We have a plan. Wealwayshave a plan.”
I despise the way his presence makes my chest heave and my head dizzy. My heart wants so badly to dig for the memories of us before everything went to hell, but my head tells me not to go there. He’s not the same guy. Or maybe this is who he always was and I just hoped I was enough to change him.
“You know what? Screw this. Just relay the message to your idiot friends. I will not be pushed around anymore. If you three think you’re going to ruin this school year for me by pulling the shit you did when I was home, you’ve got another thing coming. I’m here now and I will fight back.”
“Message received and I’ll be sure to relay it.”
Why is he giving me that mischievous grin?My eyebrows pinch together.“This isn’t funny, Crew.”
“Never said it was. In fact, I agree. Nothing about this is funny at all.”
“I’m dead serious. Enough is enough. I get it, you guys hate me. The feeling is mutual, so let's just get through these next eight months and we can go back to only seeing each other at the quarterly meetings.”
His thumb grazes his chin and he snickers. “I wish it were that easy, Scar.”
“Of course it’s that easy. It's a simple choice to be nice.”
“You seem to forget that you being here means you belong to us now.”
I grind my teeth, nostrils flaring. “I belong to no one.”
“Oh, but you do. Before long, you’ll be reaching for my hand, begging me to help you.” He wears his smugness proudly with drawn-back shoulders and a dominating stance.
“I’d die before I ever asked you for help—any of you.”
“Well, we can’t have that, can we? We need you alive in order to torture the fuck out of you.”
He’s even worse than he was back then, but his words don’t cut as deep as they used to. Now, they barely skim the surface of my thick skin. “I can’t believe we were ever friends.”
“We weren’t. I just let you believe we were. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Everything I did and said was to earn your trust, so I could yank the rug out from under you.”
“You’re unbelievable.”
Okay. That one stung a little. Wasn’t expecting that.My head shakes during the moment of silence before I blow out a breath, feeling like I was just kicked in the gut. “You know what, screw you.”
“Nah. I’ll pass. My dick already spread you wide enough.”
He did not just say that!“I fucking hate you, Crew Vance.” I flip him my middle finger before spinning on my heels.
I don’t make it far before his arms fly around me from behind, squeezing my back to his chest. “Flip me off again and I’ll break that finger of yours and use it to get you off. Would you like that, Scar? Your dismembered finger fucking your pussy?”
His hold on me drops and I refuse to give him another second of my time. My feet don’t stop moving as I make an escape, his vile words on repeat in my mind.
