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Except the consequences aren’t what they’ve been in the past.
Just one more time and then she’ll be out of my system.
No one has to know.
I can’t risk my family for a fling.
He’s probably in there fucking her right now.
Selfishness wins and all rational thought immediately evaporates like the flame of a candle being blown out.
I see blood red.
It should be me in there.
I’m at the door and ripping it open in seconds, but I manage to get enough control on my fury that I don’t send it crashing into the wall. Instead, I open and close it quietly, not wanting to draw undue attention to this moment.
By the time I walk into the classroom, my anger has morphed from angry red to a much more concerning icy white.
And when I don’t immediately lay eyes on her, something cracks inside me and lets the crazed territorial beast out.
“What the fuck are you two doing in here?” I demand.
Phoenix steps back and she appears, finally.
Fully clothed, mercifully.
He hands her back her phone and my eyelid twitches. I wonder if she gave him her number.
The same one she wouldn’t give me.
As my mood darkens further and further it sucks up all the oxygen in the room.
Phoenix lifts an unbothered brow at me. “Are you allowed to talk to students like that?”
“Get out,” I hiss.
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Chapter 17
Nera
Ifind it hard to breathe.
Distantly, I hear Phoenix drawl, “This isn’t even your classroom, why do you care?”
There’s an absence of air in this room that chokes my lungs and quickens my heartbeat and it’s because ofhim.
Tristan stands with his arms crossed against his chest. His hands grip either one of his biceps with such force that the veins pop in his skin.
Heshakeswith anger.
I have no idea what set him off. When he interrupted, I was interrogating Phoenix about what he was doing in the women’s changing room with Six after the fight yesterday. He’s been harassing her for years but the expression I saw on his face last night was more obsessive than angry.
He’ll break her if he continues toying with her like this. And, if my hunch is correct, he’ll break himself right alongside her.
Based on the way Tristan’s eyes slide from me and thin murderously on Phoenix, I think he’s misunderstanding what’s happening here.
