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Please.
Can’t tonight, I’m busy.
I miss you.
Being busy was of course a lie and an excuse, and I chose not to respond to her last text. The truth was I missed her too. I missed Jay and Scarlett. Hell, I even missed Vin. But this—keeping to myself—was the only way to protect myself, wasn’t it? I’d already given up so much since arriving in Credence. I didn’t know how much I had left to give.
The cell phone bleeped again, and I muttered under my breath. Lilly sure was persistent. But when I swiped my finger across the screen and read the text message, everything stopped.
The game’s just starting, bitch… you'd better beware.Will you pick truth or dare?
It was the same unknown number from before, but if Kendall thought that would scare me, she was wrong.
So wrong.
I was done running scared. If she wanted a war, she could bring it.
CHAPTER12
EVAN
Becca avoidedme all week at school. In the one class we shared, she kept her eyes up front, acting as if I wasn’t there. And if she saw me heading toward her in the hallway, she doubled back and went in the other direction.
It hurt.
It hurt so fucking bad I wanted to punch something just to feel a different kind of pain.
After Saturday, watching her and Eli together, part of me had hoped she was thawing. But then Mom went and ruined everything. Becca hadn’t deserved her venom, but Mom—despite her shortcomings—was a proud woman and territorial to a fault.
Maybe it had been a mistake to bring Becca over to watch Eli, but I refused to run to Elaina and Darryl every time we needed someone. They would lap up having me even more in their grasp than I already was.
Scarlett was right, though, Becca needed more time. But the longer we were apart, the more worried I was that we would never find our way back to one another.
“Watch it, Porter.” Trevor shoulder checked me out of the way, throwing me a sneer as he made his way across the hallway to Kendall.
When he reached her, he wrapped his arms around her waist and nuzzled her neck. She shrieked, her eyes slamming to mine over his shoulder in an ugly smirk. He claimed her in a sloppy kiss for everyone to see, their friends laughing and joking with them. To them, they were the perfect couple. Both bad to the core and made for each other. I should have walked away. I should have left them to it and not looked back. But the past few weeks were wearing thin, and I found myself unable to tear my hardened glare off them, anger radiating through my bones.
Kendall must have felt me watching. She reeled Trevor back into her, pressing them against the locker, and her eyes never left mine as he continued to feel her up in front of everyone.
Jesus, it was fucked up. What did she hope to achieve? That their little show would make me jealous? He was welcome to her. I wanted nothing from her—I never had. You couldn’t choose your family, but you could choose the people you let into your life, and Kendall would never be one of them. She wasn’t wired right. Just like the rest of her family.
My cell phone vibrated, and I finally snapped out of the red haze.
“Hello?”
“Hello, is that Evan? Evan Porter? This is Eli’s pre-K teacher, Miss Faulkner.”
My heart sank into my stomach. “Yeah?”
“We’ve been trying to get a hold of your mother, but she isn’t answering.”
“She’s at work,” I lied. “Is everything okay?”
“Everything’s fine. Eli doesn’t feel well, and we were hoping you could come pick him up.”
“I’ll be right there.”
She thanked me and hung up. I didn’t even bother signing out.I just walked out of school, got into my car, and drove off. Because that was who I was. Because this was my future.
