Page 12 of Hate Me Like You Do


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I can’t explain it at all. It’s the deadliest gleam of demented control in his dark depthless eyes.

“Yeah, well, we don’t owe you either. Your days of handouts are over, Venereal Violet.” Knox practically growls at me.

My heart and stomach free fall all at once at the cruelty in his eyes, his stance, his pointed words.

That name. That God awful name that I confided in them with, stings now more than it ever did when my ex used it. Never did I think that those words could cut me deeper than they do now.

“What does that even mean?” My voice raises.

“Good luck on your first day tomorrow,” Reed says with the sharp blade of anger behind his words.

Knox’s smirk is the last thing I see before the group disappears down the hall to leave my confused, still a virgin ass, alone to wallow in anger and confusion.

Maybe I’m just now seeing the real them.

Maybe I never knew them at all.

It was all a fake.

Three

Dee

Getting going this morning is tough to say the least. Warm sunshine enters through the small slit in between the ivory curtains. Rays of the brilliant light give Reed’s six pack abs their own spotlight like God is blessing each and every muscle. It’s more like an eight pack.

Not like I’ve counted each perfect square or anything….

I don’t stare at him though. I glare.

Beside him the wailing alarm on his phone continues to go off. Football practice before school. It sounds like hell but he seems to love it.

It’s his future.

Slowly he turns to me, his face solemn and expressionless. An odd look on his normally cheerful features.

“Turn that off,” I mumble from my spot underneath my thick tangle of blankets. My eyes are probably the only thing he can see from the cocoon I’ve made for myself.

Knox never came to bed last night. Well, he never came to our bed. I wandered the house when I couldn’t sleep only to find him snoring on the couch. His bed never felt so cold and so ridiculously big before. I haven't slept without him since the first week I stayed here.

My stomach drops with the reminder of what happened yesterday.

Right. The monumental mess I made. How could I forget.

Reed’s alarm keeps blaring. I squeeze my eyes shut, wishing for one more minute of sleep. Then the noise gets louder, approaching with quiet footsteps. With a crack of an eye, I watch Reed set his phone on the nightstand beside my bed.

Completely. Naked.

I hate him.

“Rise and shine,” he whispers, brushing my hair off my forehead, his dick ridiculously hard in the space between us. Why is every part of him big? And why am I still looking?

“I don’t have football practice. I don’t need to be awake yet.” I roll, flopping a puffy pillow over my face.

A shuttering cold covers my body as he rips the thick blankets off of me and wraps them around his lean waist. I curl into myself watching him walk right out of the room, the obnoxious alarm sounding in his obnoxious wake.

“It’s nothing I haven't seen before,” I yell after him.

Reed pokes his head back into the room, eyes wild. “And nothing you’ll ever get to touch after that stunt you pulled yesterday, Dee.”

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