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I didn’t know if I was even breathing.
Blaise shook his head. “It’s not what it looks like, I swear. I fucking swear to you.”
Head spinning, I pressed my lips together so they wouldn’t tremble, and then I scrambled to pick up my books and sprinted down the hallway toward Biology. Why had I been so stupid, creating a fucking fantasy in my head, thinking that I meant something more to him than a lousy hookup?
Blaise Harleen didn’t date and wasn’t faithful. Blaise Harleen fucked any girl he wanted, whenever he wanted, however he wanted. I probably wasn’t even the only girl in this fucking school that he was blackmailing.
Blaise Harleen was nothing to me. At least, he couldn’t be anymore.
ChapterTwenty-One
BLAISE
“Vera, wait up!” I shouted, jogging after her down the hallway.
Holding her books to her chest, Vera moved her short legs faster, her chocolate-brown hair flowing behind her shoulders. When I caught up to her, she had her gaze focused on the ground and pushed some hair into her face.
“Let me explain.”
“No,” she said sharply. “There’s nothing to explain, Blaise.”
“I didn’t do anything. I swear.”
Suddenly, she stopped and snapped her head up toward me. Tears had welled in her big eyes, and a heap of guilt rushed through me. I never felt guilt or shame or any-fucking-thing anymore, but … she was upset.Ihad made her upset.
Skylar appeared at the end of the hallway, where we had come from, with her arms crossed over her chest and a menacing smirk on her ugly face. “He’s lying to you, Vera. He always lies. He wanted a quickie before school.”
“Shut the fuck up!” I shouted.
That bitch loved fucking up my life for no fucking reason at all lately. I didn’t know what the hell her problem was because I had made it crystal fucking clear that I didn’t want her anymore. Multiple times.
Could she not take the fucking obvious hints?
Vera didn’t move an inch as Skylar strutted down the hallway toward us. When she passed us, she went to brush her fingers across my shoulder, but I pulled myself far away from her, so she couldn’t touch me again.
“Don’t cry about it,” Skylar called over her shoulder to Vera. “He’s always been this way.”
I balled my hands into fists and gritted my teeth, wanting to follow that bitch down the hallway and take her out. Like all the other rich, bratty kids from Redwood, she didn’t understand the wordsnoorstoporI don’t fucking want you.
They didn’t exist in our vocabulary.
But, fuck, I wanted to finally show her what they meant.
Once she disappeared into a classroom, I turned back to Vera, who was quiet.
“You have lipstick on the corner of your lips,” she said, voice so fragile that one little thing would make it shatter. “Don’t try to gaslight me. I’m not like the other girls you fool around with in Redwood. I’m not going to take that shit.”
When she turned away, I grabbed her wrist and twirled her back around until she faced me. I was desperate for her to believe me, for her to forgive me for what Skylar had done. I didn’t want Vera to hate me.
“Shekissedme,” I said desperately, clarifying what I had meant and moving closer to her, only for her to step back even farther. I didn’t mean to make it seem like nothing had happened. I just wanted her to know that … “I didn’t kiss her back.”
Vera pressed her full lips together and furrowed her brows, yanking her wrist out of my hold. Instead of walking away, like I thought she would again, she tugged her books closer to her chest. “I’m a fool for letting you use me. A fucking fool.”
“You’re not a fool. Please,” I pleaded, never having sounded so desperate before. I didn’t want anything so badly that it hurt me, that I had to beg for it and try not to be a fucking asshole. “I didn’t do anything back.”
Vera pursed her lips.
“You don’t believe me.”
