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I glanced over my shoulder hoping he didn’t come out here. “We’re just leaving, Mr. B.”
“Okay,” he called back. “Tell your dad I’ll see him Friday at Bell’s.”
“Will do.”
Everything went quiet again and I looked back at Kaiden.
But the hallway was empty…
And he was gone.
Chapter Ten
Kaiden
“This is for you.”Lindsey pressed something against my chest, and I plucked it out of her fingers. “Surprise.”
I opened the envelope and resisted the urge to roll my eyes at the handwritten token declaring her my rally girl.
“So what, you’re going to bake me cookies and rub my shoulders before a game?”
She trailed her finger up my chest, leaning closer. “Officially, I’m here to encourage and support you. Unofficially, I’m available forwhateveryou need.”
Snagging her wrist, I dropped it between us. “I’m good thanks.”
“Seriously, Kaiden, what the fuck is your problem? I’m offering you no-strings sex and you’re going to pretend you don’t want me.”
“I don’t,” I snapped, already over her bullshit. I didn’t want a rally girl. I wanted to play football and get through senior year without doing some serious damage to Monroe’s face.
Although as the days went on, that was looking less and less likely. He was determined to push me to my breaking point and it was taking everything I had not to call him out on his bullshit.
“Come on, don’t be like that.” She sidled up to me. “We could have a ton of fun together.” Her lips were practically on my jaw, but it only made my skin itch.
“I have to get to practice.” Because Coach wanted to run us into the ground before making us attend the pep rally.
“My number is on there. Use it.”
Jesus, she was persistent.
I rounded the corner and immediately found Lily at her locker. She glanced over as if she felt me, her expression hardening.
I didn’t blame her. I’d left her hanging the other night at the Bennet’s. But I couldn’t stand there and listen to her spill her feelings when it didn’t change anything.
Dropping my gaze, I stalked past her without so much as a word. It was a dick move, but it was better she hated me than got it into her head that things would ever be more between us.
They wouldn’t.
They couldn’t… not now I knew the truth.
The locker room was electric when I walked inside.
“Yo, Thatch,” Bryan beckoned me over. “Word is Coach is going to announce the starting lineup for next Friday before practice.”
The knot in my stomach tightened. “It’ll be Monroe.”
“You don’t know—”
“Yeah, I do.” Monroe was Coach’s guy, his star QB, and I was the son of a guy he hated. My fate was decided the second I stepped foot into Rixon High.
