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I wanted to reel the words back in, but it was too late, and I found that I was too drunk to care.
He moved into my space, his eyes going red with rage. “I said … come on.”
I crossed my arms, not feeling an ounce of fear in his glare. “And I said no.”
Then he leaned over, stuck his shoulder in my waist, and tossed me over his shoulder. I screamed.
“Put me down, asshole!” I covered my mouth when I said the curse word, and I giggled.
I rarely cursed.
He didn’t respond.
Instead, he took me into his bedroom, closed and locked the door behind us, and tossed me on his bed.
“Sober up, and then maybe I’ll let you out.”
I sat up, smacking my palms into his soft mattress at my sides like an errant child.
“You’ll let me?” I laughed, and it sounded as maniacal as I felt. “Sorry to tell you, Aiken or Skull, or whatever your name is, but my father is dead. Remember? You guys desecrated his ashes like the savages that you are.”
He moved fast, leaning over me and glaring down at me.
“Do you even know what you were in there doing?” he growled down at me.
I jolted with the intensity in his voice.
“I was minding my business. Why don’t you mind yours?”
“You were in there giving some fucker you barely know all your firsts in one night!”
“Why do you care?”
“Because I want all your firsts god damnit!”
20 Aiken
THE SECOND THE WORDS FLEWfrom my lips; I knew they were an absolute truth.
I wanted Everly.
The inferno that broke out in my veins when I saw her and Stryker making out had been proof of those feelings. I wasn’t sure what was worse, seeing a motherfucker put his hands on her in pain or pleasure. When I saw her in the corner with Stryker, his fucking mouth all over her neck, I think my heart stopped.
“What?” she asked, her large wounded eyes glassy from drinking. “What did you just say?”
It was wrong.
She was drunk and young, and I could list a million other reasons why I should stay the fuck away from Everly, but I couldn’t do it, which did nothing but piss me off. Control was my jam, and rarely did anyone or anything take my power away from me, but Everly had a way of doing it without even trying.
Feelings and the bullshit that came along with them never got in the way for me. I was cold, hollow on the inside, and impenetrable. Nothing had gotten inside of me and warmed my soul in a long time, and the process of breaking the ice in my veins was painful.
I wasn’t sure how I had allowed it to happen, but there I was, breathing down at her and saying and thinking things I had never said or thought before. Things like keeping Everly for my own. Taking care of her and making sure she was safe. I wanted her trust—her smiles—her heat. But I knew if I took those things from her, I would leave her broken and as hollow as me.
“Nothing,” I said, turning my eyes away from her and allowing my control to slip back in.
She stood from my bed and swayed on her feet. Before she could fall, I reached out and straightened her, and the feel of her soft skin against my rough fingers was like a taser to my hands. Even our skin disagreed. She was too soft—too sweet—too perfect. I would only rip her to shreds with my roughness and harsh temperament.
She smiled sweetly at me. “I know what you’re trying to say, and you should know I like you, too, Aiken. Even though I know you’re bad for me.”
