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My heart dropped, my chest tight. I didn’t wantanyonein Redwood to know what I had done. I didn’t want anyone in Redwood to judge me. I wanted to be invisible. If Blaise told even one person, my life and reputation would be ruined.
So, I shook my head. “I don’t.”
“Well,” Blaise started, “I guess you’re going to be the bad boy’s good girl for now then—until I want something else from you.”
ChapterFour
VERA
“I’m so dumb,” I muttered to myself, hurrying down the aisle in CVS to find the day-after pill or something so I wouldn’t get pregnant.
I didn’t know what the hell had been going through my mind when I let Blaise come inside me—hell, when I let him push me into his car!What was I thinking?!
“Can I help you with something, sweetheart?” a young guy with a name tag fastened to his shirt asked. He smiled at me a bittoosweetly and moved closer. “Are you looking for condoms?”
I nearly choked on my own spit and gave him a tense smile. “No.”
“Well”—he stuck out his hand for me to shake—“my name is Jim if you need any help.”
After glancing down at his hand, I awkwardly shook it, so he’d go away and stop talking to me. I probably looked like a whole mess—my hair crazy as hell, my cheeks flushed, and my eyes wide as saucers.
Once he finally left—but really, he kept staring at me from the register, like I might steal something—I searched through the boxes of Plan B and read through every single label on the back of each box, wanting to find the absolute best one. There was no way in hell that I would get pregnant with Blaise Harleen’s baby.
No. Freaking. Way.
I crouched down to read the boxes on the bottom shelf and rubbed the wrinkles I was giving myself on my forehead. “Jesus Christ, Mom is going to kill me if she finds out that I’m in the middle of CVS, looking for some damn pills because I had unprotected s—”
“Are you sure I can’t help you find anything?” Jim asked, giving me a fake smile.
At first, I’d thought he was being nice and had a thing for me with that handshake, but now, I could tell that he wanted me out of his store, that he thought I was planning on stealing something somehow.
“I’m fine,” I snapped, wanting to be left alone.
“If you’re not going to buy anything, then you’ll have to leave.”
Sighing through my nose, I picked up a box and hoped that I had enough money in my wallet to pay for it. Jim guided me up to the counter to check me out and get a poor girl like me out of his store as soon as possible.
“Did you find everything you were looking for today?”
I gritted my teeth. If someone had let me look in peace …
“Yes.”
After pressing some buttons on the register, he gave me that annoying smile. “Do you have a CVS card?”
“No.”
“Would you like to donate to children in need?”
Damn, this guy was annoying as hell.
“No,” I said, pulling out my wallet as he gave me a disappointed expression. But I didn’t have any money to spare. Plan B was more expensive than I had thought, and I didn’t even know if I had enough for it.
Once he clicked a couple more buttons on his register, he smiled at me. “Would you like a paper bag with that? It’ll be ten cents extra.”
“Oh my freaking God,” I snapped, opening my wallet and pulling out the sixty dollars that I’d earned, working at the library this past Saturday. “Put it in a damn bag and let me pay already. I want to get out of here.”
Jim placed the box into a small brown bag. “That’ll be fifty-one dollars and twenty-three cents.”
