Page 1 of Your Side of the Offense

PROLOGUE

Summer

I can't help the skip in my step after getting out of the Uber in the gym parking, my backpack close. I can't wait until we get to his place. I am so excited to tell Harvey I finally found the vinyl. When the store called me to tell me it got delivered, I rushed over. I couldn't wait any longer. I had to have it. We had to have it.

I smirk devilishly to myself, thinking of everything I can make him do to me so he can borrow it.

Definitely something extra nasty. I sigh happily.

Pushing the double doors of the building open, I hope to catch the last of their practice. Tracey and her two assistant witches congregate in front of the double doors leading to the stadium. The queen witch sees me first and smiles that nasty smile of hers.

Hate grew into loathing, on her side, once I started dating the boys. But I don't care about her at all. The witches line themselves to block my path and I slow down as I near them adjusting my backpack.

They smile like they know something I don't. Something I don't doubt they’re just dying to tell me.

"Tracey and the two donkeys," I say, a fake smile of my own.

Their grins don't falter.

Okay, that one usually works.

"Summer, oh, Summer. You should be nicer to people who hold your happiness in their delicate hands," Tracey says, looking triumphant, and I don't like it.

"Yeah, bitch," one of the donkeys adds, and I pull the biggest eye roll in the history of eye rolls.

I don't have time for this. I start advancing on them and they band together. Clearly not wanting me to pass. I step back, pissed now. Tracey pulls out a phone in her bag, presses it, and shoves it in my face. And I take it because, well, what else can I do?

My face falls immediately. My body goes cold instantly. My heart feels like it's getting pulled and squeezed from the inside. Increasing the volume only adds to my torment. Her moans echo down the hall as she writhes on top of Harvey in pleasure, but I can't stop watching.

It's hard to believe what I'm seeing. Is it true? He holds her face like he does mine,. It and I shudder as he looks up to her with lazy eyes, smiling at her fondly. She smiles back at him, clearly elated and victorious.

And my heart?

Ruined.

Utterly shattered.

The gym door bursts open as the football players exit, rowdy with boyish excitement. My eyes blur, every sound just a buzz, mushed together and I can't comprehend one thing separately.

"Hey, baby!" Harvey says with too much excitement.

My anger boils over.

He’s fucking happy after what he's done? He's fucking smiling like everything is okay.

I want to launch myself at him and rearrange him.

"Sunshine, what's up?" Jaden comes closer.

I raise my eyes to look at the source of my pain.

Jaden moves next to me, sees what's in my hand, and takes it from me.

I see red. My body trembles; I feel cold on the inside. Like I'm about to fall apart.

"You shouldn't have seen that," Jaden says.

Caleb comes to my side and I stand still, tears falling as I look Harvey in the eye.

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