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“Because of you,” he says, unblinking. “Eli was your friend and so he became my enemy.”
To put it easily, they had become friends with Eli only to spite me—take the one thing I had, to hurt me more. It was savage.
I haven’t known them to be any other way.
“After you left.” His bottom lip puckers, nonchalant. “He stuck.”
I unfold my legs from my chin, taking that in.
A light flashed off a building than like it too was laughing at me. Even it was as alone as I felt down here. Miles of distance between us too.
“Was I that awful?” I whisper. Needing to hear the truth once and for all.
The wind whips his onyx-colored hair in every direction. Matching his full eyebrows before they dip into his naturally light eyes.
His throat bobs, but he keeps his face neutral. The expression he used when certain in his decision. The one-worded answer speeding up and slowing down my breathing at the same time. “No.”
My heart pounded.
Thousands of little flecks of silver dusting across those cerulean pupils. Hidden under those thick full eyelashes. His bottom lip fuller than his top pinched together now as he watches me.
The hood of his car begins to rattle from where his phone sat between us vibrating. He ignores it, cheekbones sinking with indecision.
Shifting his weight, he latches on to my thigh, searing my skin, sending my sense of right and wrong out the window.
“Rory.” My name sounded like sandpaper on his tongue. “Stop looking at me like that.”
I look at him, my pulse jumping everywhere. “Like what?”
That spark cracking between us, as scattered as lightning. His gaze lowered, turning hooded. I wanted him to kiss me.
Kiss me, Cole Kellet.
His mouth parts. So close to mine. Breath hot on my lips as his nostrils flared. So many unspoken feelings stirring between us. If he had something to say, I didn’t care to hear it. I wanted his mouth on mine.
The temperature between us escalated even though we were outside.
Kiss me!I wanted to scream.
He looks past me and back. That lifeless mask shifting back into place. His jawline is set in a line hard as cement. The moment ruptured.
“Stop pretending I’m not the monster, Rory.” Cole’s voice deepened in anger. It sounded as tight as my chest felt.
I reel back in astonishment.
“You were set free, and you still ended up back here,” he says, voice deepening still.
He climbs off the hood, and goes to the cliff’s edge, putting distance between us. My stomach twists. Not understanding why, I suddenly felt abandoned for the first time when that’s all I’d known my whole life.
Fisting his hands, he arches his back. Hollering a deep, curdling yell that rumbles off his chest echoing in the cavern. Frozen in my spot, I watch in both fascination and terror as Cole becomes unhinged.
His phone vibrates beside me again, but I was more focused on how the muscles on his back flex through his shirt. So raw, primal as he hollers again.
His eyes blazed hot as a roaring fire storming back over.
“You’re a prisoner now, princess.” His voice raw and low.
He was panting into the open air. A distant glimmer shining in his eyes filled me with adrenaline. Cole’s stance slacked, whereas my pulse jackhammers, pounding into my ears.
