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It wasn’t my fault, okay?
After Landon’s father had shot him and split, then Kai had shown me how many guns he had in that little room of his, I kinda … maybe … got a bit nervous. It really hadn’t set in until this weekend that I really was in deep with the Poison boys.
Deeper than I’d ever thought I’d be.
I strolled into the cafeteria, steering clear of Poison’s table, and headed toward the self-designated nerd table, where Allie and I always sat.
All weekend, I had been on stakeout and surveillance, trying to figure out what the hell Jace Harbor was up to with my best friend. Little did I know about this shit stirring at Redwood. People had been gossiping about Allie and her stepbrother and making fun of her at her locker this morning.
Allie had told me that Kai had helped her out before first period.
Part of me hoped that he wasn’t doing it to get on my good side. And the other part of me wished he were because I was slowly getting jealous of how nice he was to Allie and how worried he was about her. Something was up with him, and I wanted to find out what it was.
But not while I was trying to figure other things out.
After perching my ass at the empty table, Allie walked into the room with her head held low. I watched her and Kai share a look—which made me ball my hands into fists under the table—and then she glanced over at Jace.
“Do you want to eat in the library?” I asked her, clenching my jaw at Poison. “People are pissing me the fuck off with those pictures of you. I don’t want you to feel like we have to sit here.”
Before Allie could respond, Jamal sat next to me and gave Allie a half-smile. “Don’t listen to them, Allie. They’re just immature fucking brats. I’ll find out who stuffed all that shit in there.”
I gave him a side-eye at how close he was to me and scooted an inch to my left. “Yeah, don’t listen to them. They mean nothing anyway. They’re not going anywhere in life, and they will stay in Redwood for the rest of their lives, especially Nicole.”
“Fuck that bitch,” Jamal and I said at the same time.
I gave Jamal another stink eye, then continued to eat my sandwich. Allie sank in her seat, shoulders slumping forward as she tried to make herself small again. Everyone was staring at us, literally everyone—from Nicole to the cheer team to Poison to the teachers.
Suddenly, Jace fucking Harbor sat next to Allie. “I saved a seat for you.”
Almost instinctively, Allie pushed his hand away and stared at me.
This bitch …
Narrowing my eyes, I gave her the hardest death glare I could muster. She’d better not have made up with him this weekend, especially after what he did to her on Friday. Did she not remember how heartbroken she was?!
After the whispers finally died down, I cleared my throat. “So, Allie, where were you this morning? And what happened between you and Mr. Barnes? He couldn’t make eye contact with you all class.”
She shifted uncomfortably in her seat and glanced at Jace. “We, um, woke up late.”
I narrowed my eyes even harder and snatched her wrist. “Okay, we need to talk,” I said, dragging Allie away from the table and the boys. When we were far enough away, I slapped her chest. “What the hell?” I whisper-yelled. “I thought you weren’t getting back together with Jace. What happened to ‘I hate him with all my heart. He’s a dickhead. He deserves to die’?”
This ho couldn’t make up her damn mind.
She needed to keep me updated on these things, so I could do my little surveillance with the right intention. If I had known she had gotten back together with him yesterday, I would’ve staked out their house to try to catch anything fishy, not actively trying to figure out the best course of action on how to teach Jace a lesson.
Glancing back over at the table, I noticed Jace smiling at Allie.
I wanted to hurl.
“He had a reason,” Allie admitted, “for doing everything that he did to me.”
I scrunched my nose. “Come on. Are you seriously going to believe him? He’s a player, and everyone knows it.”
Allie grabbed my hand and squeezed it hard. “I can’t tell you what it is, but I can promise you that I’m not being stupid …” This ho was being stupid again, but I loved her anyway. “Jace has been through so much that he’s been hiding from me. I … I still love him. I always will.”
“Just know that if he fucking hurts you again, I will get Poison on his ass to kill him,” I threatened, glancing over at Poison even though I was pissed at them—sorta. “You know that they would too. They hate rich, bratty kids like him.”
She held out her pinkie finger and let me curl mine around hers. “Deal. If Jace breaks my heart again, you can get Poison on his ass,” she said, giggling. “Make them do anything that they want to do to him. Kai has some ideas.”
Kai.
There it was again.
Had they been plotting together at his house or something? I fucking hoped not.
Because as scared as I was to be with them now, I wasn’t about to walk away.
All three of the Poison boys were mine.
