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My hand goes around her neck before I even question what I’m doing. I lift her off the ground, and she claws at my hands as her face turns purple.
“Yo, dude! What the fuck are you doing?”
“Aziel!”
I drop her on the floor at the bottom of the stairs. “She hasn’t given it up, but if she did, I imagine it’d be a hell of a lot better than your rancid ass pussy.” I turn around to leave when I think better of it. Turning around, I growl, “Call her a whore again, and I’ll cut your tits off and feed them to the mountain lions.”
She pales, scrambling back as everyone else looks at me in shock from behind her.
“Uhh.Fuck.” I turn around and rush up the stairs. I’m not usually someone who puts his hands on a girl. Not usually—never. But the rage I felt when she talked about Ivy like that.
Shit, my fists clench just thinking about it.
I make my way to my door, and as quietly as possible, I crack it open and slip inside. I haven’t been home, to my real house, in almost a week. I have a couple pairs of clothes here, but I’m going to have to go home sooner or later.
Just like I thought, Ivy lays snuggled underneath my covers, with Lilah sprawled out like a star on the other half of the bed. I chuckle as I walk up to them, smiling and brushing Lilah’s hair off her cheek. It lay over her mouth, and every inhale it gets sucked into her mouth and every exhale it puffs out. She stirs from my touch, flopping over onto her stomach and curling into a ball.
I glance over at Ivy and startle when I see her eyes boring into mine.
“Shit.” I whisper. “Have you been up this entire time?”
“I sleep lightly.” She whispers. “You’ve got blood on you.” I look down at my clothes and see the obvious blood splatter on them. I can only imagine what my face looks like.
“Sorry… I wanted to check in on you.” I take a step back from the bed. “I’ll see you in the morning.
“Wait.” She says, sitting up. “I don’t… would you… stay?” She looks down, her hands flattening the comforter on top of her.
When I don’t say anything at first, she continues. “Sorry, never mind. I don’t know what I was thinking.”
I take a step back towards her. “Stop.”
She looks up at me.
I breathe out all the air I have in my chest. “I’ll stay.”
She slides back down until her head rests on the pillow. I toe off my shoes, my sock cladden feet digging into the old carpet as nerves I haven’t felt since I was a pre-teen fill me. I feel dirty as hell after today, so I put my finger up as I walk to the bathroom and shut the door behind me. I hop in the shower, taking a cold one because…fucking Ivy.I’d be smarter to just rub one out since I’m going to be laying next to her, but I have a feeling even empty balls won’t keep me from wanting to pound her into the mattress.
Those sleepy eyes as she stared at me.
Her blonde hair sprawled across my pillow.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
I have a feeling I’m going to have a hard time falling asleep next to her.
I turn off the shower once the blood stops running down the drain, slipping my boxers back on and walking out into the room.
I walk over to Ivy’s side of the bed, watching as she slides to the middle of the bed, leaving me room to slide in on the opposite side of Lilah. I stand there and stare at her as she stares at me. I suddenly feel unsure on what to do. The chaos that’s been in my mind sinks into my chest, rattling the dead muscle between my ribcage.
“You don’t have to stay here. I don’t want you to if you don’t want to.”
“Shut up, Ivy.” I lay down on top of the covers, not wanting to get too close. I don’t know what she expects, but the thrumming through my veins today makes me a little edgy. I don’t want to do anything she wouldn’t want me to do.
She flips over so she’s facing me. Tucking her hands underneath her face, she says, “Thank you. I haven’t felt safe in… years.”
“Do you feel safe now?” I mumble.
She thinks on it a second, her lips screwing up in contemplation. “Yeah, I guess I do.”
