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Footsteps move closer before Oak announces, “Oh look, the beast is alive,” before his palm cracks across my bare arse, shooting pain in every direction.
“You motherfucker,” I roar, launching myself off the bed and straight at him.
“Oh, naked wrestling,” Tally says teasingly. “On second thought, maybe I’ll stay.”
“I’m not rubbing my dick up against this arsehole, Prim. If you want naked wrestling, then we can schedule it for later.”
“Gross,” Millie mutters before disappearing.
“Millie,” I call. “I’m sorry.”
Honestly, I’ve no idea what for, but the words seem appropriate right now.
“Will you two stop fucking about,” Elliot demands standing in the doorway with his thick arms crossed over his chest.
The girls leave, escorting Millie downstairs. It’s probably a good idea. Fuck knows what state downstairs is in. Looking at my semi might not be the only thing that gives my sister nightmares.
“Good to know you didn’t get laid again,” Oak says, getting to his feet and pinning our leader with a loaded look. “You’re tense as fuck. It was a party, man. You were meant to let off steam.”
Elliot clearly has nothing to say in response to that when all he does is glare.“Theo, sort your-fucking-self out. Your sister needs you, and so does your girl, wherever she is.
“I saw her leading a guy into the bathroom not so long ago. I hate to tell you this, but they looked pretty cosy.”
I squeeze my eyes closed, trying to push the nagging voice from my head.
Keeley Davis always has been a fucking irritant.
“But maybe shower before you go searching. You fucking stink, man,” Oak adds before the two of them disappear.
Leaving me sprawled out like a loser on my bedroom floor.
22
RAINE
Ishould have left sooner.
That’s the only thought running through my head as I sit on the edge of the bed watching the minutes tick by painfully slow.
When I left the Chapel this morning, everyone had been sleeping. I hadn’t expected to see Theo passed out on the sofa half-naked, and for a second, I’d wanted to come clean.
To tell him the truth.
But I couldn’t do it—I couldn’t bear the thought of how he would look at me once he knew.
So I’d tiptoed out of there and headed back to my dorm room, where I’ve holed up for the last few hours.
At some point earlier, Millie came to check on me, but I feigned a headache, and she left me alone.
Part of me was hardly surprised I hadn’t heard from Theo yet. He is probably still sleeping off a hangover from hell.
My stomach churns with what was to come. But in some ways, I am relieved.
Relieved it’s almost over.
It was foolish to think I could ever move on while Vaughn was out there, looking for me.
Saints Cross might be miles away from Brewton, but it isn’t far enough.
