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“Ah!” The salty taste of my tears flood my mouth as I’m gripped by a memory.
I’m not paying attention as I round the corner to head down the next row of bookshelves. The library is quiet, and most people here sit at the tables or computers working and talking while books are left alone.
I love the silence I get from being in here. It’s almost like the second you walk through the double doors, the noise from the hallway mutes and serenity takes over your entire soul.
At least it is for me.
I’m trying to find something new to read when I walk right into something hard.
“Oh, I’m so sorry. I—” My mouth falls open when I look up to find Chase Thorne’s stupidly handsome, smug-as-hell, smiling face aimed down at me. I’m thrown because I never thought I would ever see that smile pointed in my direction.
“Hey there, Angelica.” His smile glistens on his face. I sigh and melt at the sight of it even though I shouldn’t and should be kicking myself.
“Hi,” I whisper back to him, my nerves getting the better of me. The last time he gave me any attention was when he tried to get me to help him in math just a couple of weeks ago.
“I was told I could find you here.” I nearly faint when his hand reaches up and pushes some of my loose hair behind my shoulder and then keeps it there.
“You were told correctly.”
What the hell am I supposed to say to him? Sure, I’ve talked to him mainly in math, watched him more than I will ever admit to anyone outside of Lorelei, my mom, and my grandma, but I never thought he would approach me outside the classroom.
My annoyance at him for his lack of caring for his education is temporarily shut down with the rest of my usually quick-witted mind.
“I can’t stop thinking about you.” His thumb hypnotizes me with its gentle yet firm brushing against my cheek. “Seeing you so focused in math class gets me thinking crazy thoughts.”
“W-What k-kind of th-thoughts?”
Oh my God! Why am I stuttering? Stop it now, Angie.
“I wonder what your lips feel like when you bite down on your pencil while you’re focusing.” His gaze drops to my lips, and I self-consciously lick them as if wetting them with my tongue and bad breath will entice him to kiss me.
I flounder to try to find something to say. I’m at a loss.
“Their naturally red pout mesmerizes me.” His hooded eyes remain focused on my lips. I can’t even comprehend why he isn’t talking to me with direct eye contact when I just want him to kiss me.
Quit being stupid.
“I think I may have a taste,” he whispers. It feels like a velvet promise as his lips gently press to my stunned ones. Fireworks, bombs, anything and everything explosive I can possibly think of go off in my head as I melt further into his powers. My eyes flutter closed because there’s just something so perfect about his lips against mine I can’t possibly piece together.
The books in my arms crash to the floor, the thud loud enough to draw attention to us in the back corner of the library. My hand courageously reaches up to grab his face when laughter floats around Chase and floods my ears.
My eyes widen into saucers when the familiar cackle kills everything I just felt for Chase.
He pulls away, dropping me like a hot potato, and backs up until he’s by Cera’s side to wrap an arm around her.
What’s going on?
My tears instantly well up as what is taking place comes to me just as quickly. She put him up to this. Like everything she does, Cera is trying to ruin me.
And it’s slowly starting to work.
Just a couple more weeks and I never have to see her again.
“Good job, Chasey,” she purrs up at him, a smile on her overly made-up face but pure evil in her eyes. “I’ll go to the prom with you now.”
I feel so humiliated. I can’t even bring myself to pick up my books as I watch them laugh at me and walk away.
I was used then, and I was used last night by the same fucking man.
