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The fact that he thinks he can go behind my back like this and get away with it is almost more unbelievable than him doing it in the first place.
“It’s not like that, bro.”
“So you didn’t spend the night with her?” He swallows once more. “And you didn’t pull her into your arms earlier and guide her up to her room?”
“Y-yes but—”
A roar rips from my lips, and before I know I’ve so much as pulled my arm back, my fist connects with his nose. There’s a loud pop before blood explodes across both of us.
He retaliates much faster than I give him credit for, and the second his fist leaves my eye socket, I feel it starting to swell.
“You’re a dumbass motherfucker, you know that?” he taunts me as we dance around each other.
“Tell me you haven’t touched her,” I demand. “Tell me nothing has happened.” He pales slightly, his steps faltering. “You fucking…” My words trail off as I launch at him, my fist reigning terror down on his face and torso. He fights back to begin with, but he must realize that he’s in the wrong here because he gives up.
“Cole, for fuck’s sake.” The familiar voice breaks through my haze, but it’s not enough to make me stop.
It’s not until hands wrap around my upper arms and I’m physically pulled back that I do.
“What the fuck are you doing?” Ace barks in my ear.
“He’s fucking her.”
“What?” Ace, Remi and Conner all snap at the same time.
“He’s fucking her.”
“No, he’s not. Don’t be stupid,” Ace says throwing me to the ground and standing between us.
“He spent the night with her. He went with her earlier. Ask him where he was during the game, go on.”
Ace’s brow raises in Conner’s direction.
“Yeah, okay,” he relents, “I was with Hadley, but I haven’t been fucking her.”
“Something has happened though, hasn’t it?”
He looks away from me for a beat before wiping at the blood trickling down his chin. “Yeah, but not because she wants me. It’s because she needs you, and you’re not fucking there. Pull your fucking head out of your ass and go and get your girl, Cole. Quit being such a fucking pussy. She doesn’t want me. For some fucked-up reason, she wants you. She needs you. Now do the right fucking thing, or walk away for good and let her live her life.”
I stumble back, his words floating around my head.
Let her live her life.
Not without me, she isn’t.
Chapter Nine
Hadley
It’s late, but I can’t sleep.
I’m not surprised though.
I slept soundly earlier, curled around Conner like a spider monkey. No monsters had found me, and I’d woken two hours later feeling better than I had all week.
It probably should have felt wrong, to be using Conner that way, but I need someone... and he’s the closest person to Cole.
When he holds me, it’s almost like Cole is holding me.
