AllFreeNovel
Share Us
"Fuck if I know. Someone screwed up. She's not the one for him. Everything about them as a couple is just wrong. She'll never be able to give him what he needs."
I open my mouth to argue, to tell her that Mia is everything, but I catch myself at the last minute and swallow down the words.
"So what do you say?" She leans forward on the desk, ensuring her tits are pushed up and right in my view.
I roll my eyes at her display. If she believes any of what she's just said to me, then she must realize that she's barking up the wrong tree, trying to convince me with her body.
"I'm not interested, Brook. I'm already in deeper with the Electi than I want. I'm not starting any games with them."
"But—" she pouts. "Don't you want her?"
Yes, more than anything. But not like this.
"No. She's Cade's."
Her chin drops, and she stares at me as if I'm about to throw my head back and laugh.
"Wait… you're serious?"
"Deadly. Now, do you mind? I actually want to pass this class."
I turn away from her, pull my notebook closer, and focus on the professor as he paces back and forth, his enthusiastic voice booming across the vast space.
Brook huffs and pouts beside me, but she doesn't say anything else, although something tells me that it won't be the last I hear from her.
She's clearly serious about getting Cade back. Fuck knows why anyone would want that conceited asshole, but she's more than welcome to him. And somehow, she's discovered my weakness. And while I might have just refused her offer to break up the not-so-happy couple, that doesn't mean I don't want to figure out a way to make it happen. I'd just rather not have to sell my soul to the female version of Cade fucking Kingsley to do it.
Thankfully, I manage to catch up with what I'd missed while Brook was spouting her crap at me, and by the time I walk out of the auditorium a couple of hours later, I've almost forgotten about the whole exchange. Almost.
Just like my journey here, I keep my head down and don't acknowledge anyone as I grab a coffee before my next class starts.
By some miracle, I manage to keep up my hiding in plain sight act for two whole days.
I come to the conclusion that I must be emitting some weird back-the-fuck-off aura, because even Alex gives me a wide birth, which is seriously unlike him.
It all comes crashing down, though, as I leave my economics class on Wednesday morning.
I'm the last one to pack up and leave. Even the professor has given up waiting for me and disappeared.
I'm just about to reach for the door when it swings open and I find myself locked in Mia's dark and angry hazel eyes.
She's been messaging me, trying to catch my attention in class, but I haven’t so much as looked her way. If I weren't so in tune with her then I might have missed it, but if we're in the same room together then I know everything. I'm aware the second she turns her eyes on me. I feel the tether that's between us pulling tight, begging me to turn her way and to make that connection with her that we both crave.
She takes a step toward me, looking up through her lashes. Her shoulders are tense and her lips are downturned.
"You're ignoring me," she states, dropping her purse to the floor with a thud as she continues to close the space between us.
Her scent fills my nose, and my resolve to put some distance between us begins to crumble.
"Did you have a good date on Sunday night?" I snarl.
"You know I didn't. I spent the entire time I was there wishing that I was with you. But there was little chance of that, seeing as you can't even respond to my messages." Anger comes off her in waves. "You told me you wanted me, Bex. That it was me and you. And then you just ran away."
"You lied to me," I seethe, my voice laced with anger and disappointment.
"What? When?"
I suck in a deep breath, trying not to lose myself in the memory of him backing her into her room and pushing his tongue into her mouth.
