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I was surprised Archer wasn’t in any of the classes we shared together. I was foaming at the mouth to see him and give him a piece of my mind. How dare he put me at risk? It didn’t matter that he hated me. He had no right.
My body lit up when I walked into swim practice and saw him talking to his friends. I wanted to storm over there and give him a piece of my mind, but there was no way in hell I was going to expose what happened to me to the rest of the world or his friends. Although, I was sure he probably shared the details of what went on upstairs last night with them. I wouldn’t let them see my shame. Keeping my head held high, I ignored the butterflies churning in my belly. I wasn’t sure if they were from the attraction I didn’t want to exist, or the confrontation that was coming as soon as I could get him alone.
The hairs on the back of my neck stood, and I knew he was close. Would it always be like this, or would his affect eventually fade? I wasn’t sure which one I wanted, and that scared me.
As nonchalantly as possible, I turned around only to find Archer standing there with a big ass smirk on his face. It drove me mad, and I wanted nothing more than to slap it right off his face, but that wasn’t going to happen here. He would probably have me expelled before I could get out my side of the story.
Keeping my voice low, I hissed. I couldn’t hold back the thoughts that had plagued me since last night. They all came out in one tumble of words. “Do you make it a practice to fuck every new girl without a condom? What kind of disease did you give me? And heaven forbid if you got me pregnant. I will take you to the cleaners. I will not be some poor single mom while you get to run off and live your life anyway you want.”
There was no way in hell I was going to tell him I had been on birth control for my irregular and heavy periods for two years. I wanted to scare this asshole straight.
Archer’s face was stoic as he stood before me. His hands at his sides balled into fists. “If anyone was giving someone a disease, it would be you. I’m as clean as I was the day I was born.”
“Oh, please,” I laughed bitterly. “You can’t possibly think I’m going to believe the words coming out of your mouth right now. You avoided me all day like nothing happened, and then you insult me.” I pointed to my heaving chest. I couldn’t remember a time when I was angrier. “I told you last night, I was a virgin. If anyone is clean in this scenario, it’s me because there’s no way in hell me or anyone else in this school would believe that you were a virgin before last night.”
“They’ll believe anything I tell them because my word is law. The sooner you figure that out, the better. Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going to get ready to go home.” He stepped back before an evil smirk crossed his face. “What about you? Are you dropping from the team so quickly?”
I would not let on to him how I was indeed a little scared. Someone had attacked me yesterday, which seemed like a lifetime ago with everything else that was going on. I was going to make sure I was never alone in that locker room again.
With my head held high, I marched past him into the girl’s locker room. No one was going to ruin my chances of getting out of this town.
CHAPTER SEVEN
ARCHER
“That looked intense,” Lincoln laughed. “I don’t think she likes you very much.”
My jaw ticked. “I don’t like her at all.”
“So that means we can have her?” Kai asked, rubbing his greedy little hands together.
“Touch her and you die,” I ground out.
“That’s what I thought,” Kai barked out a laugh, with Lincoln and Leo joining him.
Flipping them my middle finger, I headed to my car. I had barely been out of the pool for ten minutes and I was already itching to get home and back in the water. I knew I shouldn’t let them get under my skin and if it was anything else, I wouldn’t, but I couldn’t help myself in regard to Payton. I had no idea what drew me to her. The only thing I knew was I didn’t like the way she made me feel out of control. I needed control like I needed my body sliding through the water and the air I breathed.
I was still seething as I drove from Payton’s words and the taunting of the guys. It hadn’t escaped my notice that she was constantly looking over her shoulder the entire practice. Over twenty-four hours had passed, and I still had no idea who attacked her. As far as I could see, there was no motive. Yesterday was her first day, and I had never heard of or seen her before. If I had, I would have remembered her.
Instead of swimming until I was ready to pass out when I got home, I logged into Saint Sebastian’s website and looked through the entire student body trying to figure out who attacked Payton yesterday with the thought that whoever it was might have noticed the attention I gave her, and was doing it to get back at me. It was either they were scared of us or wanted to be us to be scared of them. We had no beef with anyone, or vice versa.
Who had the balls to try to take what was mine?
Until yesterday I would have said no one, but now, I wasn’t so sure.
Pushing off the side of my car the second Payton pulled into the parking lot, I stalked toward her. I needed answers, and I needed them now.
Her green eyes widened when she saw me coming. She pressed herself against her car before straightening her shoulders. Damn, why did I love the fact that she stood up to me? “What are you doing?” she whispered quietly.
Not stopping until my chest was pressed into hers and one leg was between her long legs, I leaned forward invading her space. Her citrusy scent went straight to my cock, but I ignored it. There were more important matters at hand.
“Who hates you?”
“Besides you and my parents?” She laughed bitterly. “I have no clue.”
“I doubt your parents tried to off you.”
“Not intentionally, but they did send me here, so who knows.” She shrugged one shoulder like it didn’t matter, but I knew she hated being here just as much as I did. My cock thickened in my slacks, wanting to come back out and meet his favorite person as of late.
