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“Yeah?” This came from Fawn, suspicious as hell, and she should be. I didn’t want to say me putting this community project together in two seconds was because of her. But…
I pocketed my hands. “Uh-huh. These kids are from alternative schools in town.” I studied Kurt, who was grinning. “This project gives them course credit and is a great way for them to channel aggression.”
I’d actually gotten the idea from my father who had used similar tactics with me in the past. I’d had a lot of anger coming up. He’d called it illegal art therapy, the two of us tagging walls in my hometown.
Of course, I’d gotten all the approvals for this today, nothing illegal here. The city had actually thanked me, an upgrade for this area since it’d gotten so run-down.
Fawn’s auburn eyebrows lifted, her red-painted lips parting. She had a lot to say, but obviously felt she couldn’t say it in the moment.
Kurt tapped my shoulder. “Just like his father in that right. A regular philanthropist and always giving back to his community.”
Him comparing me to my father was an insult to my dad. Nothing about what I was doing today was genuine, and the person I was targeting definitely saw that.
Fawn was all puffed up like she was two seconds from busting a cap in someone’s ass. She had that camera she constantly carried gripped by the strap, and that was when Heath cut in and asked Kurt for more details about today. Yeah, didn’t like that fucker and his distraction had Fawn all up on me.
“What is this really?” she asked, that sweet-smelling shit she wore in my face again. It reminded me of when I’d fucked her, warm sugar all around me, all over me… “Why are you doing this? Why are you here?”
She should be thanking me for calling Kurt. “This is an opportunity for you to work with Kurt.”
“No, this is an opportunity for you to wave him and my internship in my face again.”
She was smart. I’d give her that. “Our deal isn’t over.”
“Oh, it’s fucking over.”
“Eh. A call from my editor,” Kurt announced, and Fawn and I gazed up. Kurt raised his phone. “I have to take this, then, Fawn and Heath, I’ll explain exactly what we’ll be doing today.”
Heath and Fawn both grinned, but only Fawn’s looked crooked. Heath mentioned wanting to talk to some of the students about the project, and Fawn started to go too until I got her arm.
“Red—”
“Don’t fucking touch me.”
My own words shot back to me, I closed my lips. She’d whisper-shouted them. I passed a hand over my hair. “Look. Shit got crazy the other night. It did, so I get why you’re pissed.”
“You went fucking crazy,” she hissed, glancing around. She lifted a finger. “I can’t do this anymore, Wolf. I’m sorry. But no. It can’t happen. It won’t.”
She started to walk away, but I got her arm again. “I don’t want to threaten you.”
“So don’t.”
I pushed air through my nose. “So don’t make me. Don’t do this. I don’t want todo this. I don’t…” My fingers moved over her arm, my hand easing away. “We don’t have to be enemies. We could even be fucking friends.”
Light laughter hit me, her laughter, and I didn’t like getting fucking laughed at. Her expression darkened. “I can’t be friends with a psychopath, and someone who clearly has more skeletons in his closet than me.”
I clicked my teeth.
“And why would you want that anyway?” she questioned, her laughter audible to everyone around us this time. My pulse spiked, and she sneered. “You wanted a flunky. You wanted aservant,and people who serve don’t make friends with their employers.”
She got bold in the next moment, stepping up to me. I had well over a foot on this girl, but that didn’t stop her from putting mere inches between us.
I felt those inches, the heat of them radiating off of her flushed tits and hitting me through my T-shirt. I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to wring her neck right now or use it to bring her to her knees.
To make herbow.
It was the fact that I didn’t know which that freaked me out. This girl was steadily on my fucking mind. She put a finger in my chest. “I’d never be friends with you. Why? Because you’re a bully on top of being insane. The fact that you’ve been blackmailing me is only the cherry on top of your psycho-as-fuck cake.”
I wasn’t fucking insane.
