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Knowing that I had probably freaked her out, I grasped her hands and smiled reassuringly. “I promise, they won’t.”
After a couple tense moments, Maddie nodded. “Okay. Text me the address tonight.”
Before she could walk away, her brother, Oliver, and Alec Wolfe—her secret lover maybe—and a couple other guys from the hockey team came up to us. Oliver and she exchanged a couple tense words, and Alec gave her a sneaky look that nobody, except me and her, caught.
“You’re Imani, right?” one of the guys said, his hockey gear slung over his shoulder.
“Um,” I said, trying to remember his name. “Yes, I am.”
“I’ve seen you around Redwood and—”
João slammed his fist into the side of his face, sending the guy to the ground.
My eyes widened, heart pounding inside my chest. “João?!” I shouted, crouching down beside the guy to make sure he was okay. “What the hell are you even—”
Before I could even finish my sentence, João snatched my elbow and pulled me to my feet, thrusting me behind him. “Don’t talk to her again,” João said between gritted teeth, his knuckles covered with blood. “She’s ours.”
With that, he pulled me straight past the teachers, who didn’t say a freaking word to him after what he had done, then out the cafeteria door.
I pulled myself out of his grip and smacked him hard on the chest. “What the fuck?! You’re annoying as hell!” I whisper-yelled.
“And you’re a part of Poison now,” he said, lips curled into a small smirk. “You’re ours. Nobody gets to talk to you, to touch you, or to take from us. We run the school. This town. And now, you, Imani Abara. But you should have already known that.”
“You don’t run me,” I said between gritted teeth. Anger pooled within me, and I had the urge to thrust my hands against his chest and shove him away. I didn’t understand how one little comment from him could make me feel this way.
We both hated each other but loved each other. In some fucked up way.
“You don’t think we do?” He turned his lips up into a wicked grin and brushed his bloody knuckles across my cheek. “You’re wrong. Poison always makes decisions together. And we decided a long time ago, before you joined, that you were ours to do whatever the fuck we wanted.”
