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Happy birthday to our main bitch! Fuck, I have missed her.
Cooper sent one thousand emojis and a simple reply…We missed you too, Blaire.
Shiloh
“Shi!” Ruin jogs up behind me as I’m making my way toward Cooper’s car, where his “other” phone is. I made up some lame excuse that I went for a swim with mine, even though it’s not totally unbelievable since the last time we all went cliff jumping, I left my phone in my pocket. “Hey!”
Ruin’s hand comes to my elbow, stopping me. “What the fuck is happening? Why did I see you kissing Malyk, and then you fucking Sparrow in the ocean?”
I pause, stepping backward and away from him. “Last I checked, you didn’t want a girlfriend, and I was definitely not that, so what’s the problem?” I push away from him and continue my trip to the car, ignoring the way the wind whistles through the trees. The weather has been good all day, but now there is a sense of… “What time is it?”
“Fuck that!” Ruin snaps at me, but I whack his hand away and reach for his wrist.
“It’s twelve oh five.”
It is officially my birthday! I go to reach for the handle of Cooper’s car when something catches my eye in the bush behind. A shadow moves from beneath the branches, and I hit Ruin’s arm.
“Shut up.”
The wind whistles louder through the thick branches as it wraps its fingers around my hair and brushes over my skin like a ghost that has just risen from the dead.
“Shi, I’m fucking serious! I liked you!” Ruin yells, pulling me back into the now.
People are spilling out from the surf club behind us, but I ignore everything that’s going on around us because something doesn’t feel right. I should be happy that I’m now eighteen, legally an adult who doesn’t need the help of three sexy men, but I’m not.
“You’ve never told me that before,” I say, but my focus is on everything else around me.
At one point, I would have felt bad that Ruin was spilling his guts out to me, and there was once upon a time when I would have loved to hear these words come out of his mouth, but—
“Ruin, shut the fuck up!” I snap, spinning around when I feel that same touch graze the center of my back. “Stop talking!”
The ground shifts from beneath me, and I stumble backward, hitting the side panel of Cooper’s car. A deep growl vibrates over the concrete. Ruin sways from left to right, his eyes widening as he finally stops talking.
“Is that an earthquake?”
“It must be.” I hold on to the mirror of the door, searching for the people who are all out front, laughing and swaying from left to right. “It’s not funny!”
Hades Hollow never gets earthquakes. In the history of this town, not once has an earthquake ever rocked this small town.
“Get out front!” I hear Sparrow bark orders at everyone who has spilled out the front of the surf club.
My eyes find all three of them in a panic just as the ground cracks beneath my feet. I reach for Ruin out of instinct, watching as the crack forms further and further.
“Blaire!” I yell at the boys, and Malyk disappears back inside.
I go to jump over the crack just as Ruin pulls me back, slamming me up against the car again. I hit it with a thud, all air leaving my lungs. I suck in deep breaths, attempting to calm my thoughts.
“What are you doing?” I shove at Ruin to get him away from me.
“You can’t fucking leave me!” His arms fly around his body as he gestures between us both. “I love you, Shiloh! I fucking love you!”
“Are you crazy!” I snap, looking between him and the crack that’s spreading on the concrete. I try to shake him off me, but his grip tightens around my upper arm, shaking me and slamming me up against the car again. “Ruin!”
He shakes his head, his eyes feral with rage. I’ve never seen this side of him before. Ruin has always been calm. Collected. Cool. I don’t recognize this person standing in front of me.
“I told you, Shi! I’ve been telling you, but you won’t see it.”
The ground continues to sway beneath my feet, and I fall back onto the car again as he reaches up to grab both my arms.
