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“What’s that?”
He shot Kincaid another look before scanning all our faces. “I expect the same loyalty when it’s mine turn.”
“You got it,” I replied automatically.
“So, we’re all in agreement?” Saxton asked.
After a round of affirmatives, Kincaid asked, “So, now what do we do about Laney and August?”
“Seriously,” Rylee harrumphed.
“Because I’m really close to kicking that girl’s ass, and I don’t care about the fallout,” Kincaid added.
“Let me tackle Sutton first,” I told her. “Then we’ll get to figuring the rest out, yeah?”
“Fine,” she replied. “But I’m not promising anything.”
Chapter 24
Sutton~
It was Monday morning, and the weak part of me had wanted to just move in with Delta’s parents and hide from the world for the rest of my life, but that’d be kind of odd since my grandparents were still alive, and why wouldn’t I want to live with them?
Still, after a good weekend and no phone, I’d been able to rebuild those defenses, and I could only hope that they were strong enough to hold up through whatever came next.
When I had turned my phone on last night, there’d been quite a few texts and messages from Ross, but I hadn’t bothered listening to the messages or reading the texts. There’d been no point. Even though I knew there was no such thing as a perfect relationship, I sure as hell didn’t want a toxic one. I also didn’t want to date a guy that was going to be hell on my self-esteem. The Ross Carmichaels of the world should not be dating the Sutton Hadleys of the world. That’s not how real life worked.
So, like a bad rom-com movie, I counted to ten, steeled myself, then got out of my car. I knew there was no way I could avoid Ross forever, even if I had entertained the idea of moving in with Earl at one point.
I just finished locking and shutting my car door when I felt someone in my space. Preparing for the worst, I turned around, only it wasn’t Ross standing in front of me.
It was August Remington.
“Hey, Sutton,” he greeted, and a wicked sensation slithered down my back. I might not know what in the hell was going on, but I knew August wasn’t on the good guys’ side. There was something calculating in how he kept approaching me. We weren’t friends. Whatever he was doing, it had to do with someone or something else.
“Hey, August,” I greeted back.
“How was your weekend?” The question was innocent enough, but the look in his eyes belied that innocence.
“It was great,” I semi-lied. “Went on a girls’ road trip.”
His head jerked in surprise, and for a second, the disapproval flashed across his features. “Oh, really?”
I nodded. “Yeah.”
“No Ross?”
“Well, Ross isn’t a girl, so….” I joked, trying to keep my voice light. Whatever was going on between Ross and August, something was telling me to keep my mouth shut. Something was telling me not to tell August that I’d broken up with Ross.
“No, I don’t suppose he is,” he joked back.
I made a show of glancing at my invisible watch. “Well, it was good seeing you,” I lied. “But I have to get to class. Mondays are a bitch for me.”
“Oh, sure,” he politely replied before stepping back some. “I’ll see you around, Sutton.”
I gave him a quick nod before going on my way. It wasn’t that I thought he was dangerous, but I didn’t need to get caught up in something that I didn’t understand. I had enough problems of my own without being dragged into August Remington’s twisted world.
My morning classes had flown by relatively painless, and I was at one of the deli kiosks, starving. Okay, maybe not starving, but my mind knew that dinner would be a late one, so I felt hungrier for lunch. Hales had a great lunch pavilion that had its own cafeteria, but also random food carts and kiosks in case the cafeteria’s menu wasn’t doing it for you.
