Page 34 of Pretty Little Lies

He’s seeing red.

Shit.

“Cairo—” He drops Bay on her feet when I call his name and glances up. Then my boy reads the room for himself as Levi marches like a fucking warrior in my best friend’s direction.

It’s like a bull and Cairo’s the sheet of red.

Using the position Bay’s already in, she plants her sexy ass right between the two men and doesn’t move her stance.

Sometimes I wish she wasn’t so brave.

And, as much as I love that she doesn’t scare easily when it comes to massive men, I don’t want her hurt either.

“Enough,” she thunders out, receiving Levi’s immediate focal point and hard glower.

Actually, it stops all of us.

Things are shifting, it’s undeniable. Torin isn’t so hard to annihilate her from the Earth. He might keep his facade on—well,try—but it slips away just as soon as she opens her mouth.

That night in the library, he can refuse to admit it, but it altered what is this conflict that lies between our two homes. This bullshit war isn’t serving us anymore. It’s just that no one wants to be the first one to admit that.

“Enough?” Levi repeats through his clenched jaw. “You don’t want me to hurt your boys, bitch? I gave youeverything,and this is how you repay me?!”

Guilt fills my chest because I knew this could come to a head eventually.

I want her and she was allegedly tied with him.

However, it still never felt like they were together. I feel as though Bay would’ve broken up with him if she wasn’t feeling it. That she wouldn’t string him along unless he threatened her in some way.

But, it could be like the guys said, maybe she was scared he’d cast her out of South Shore where her family resides. I know they mean the world to her and it wouldn’t be something that would make an easy decision.

She shakes my head in tandem against his accusations. “I’m not?—”

“There’s plenty of pussy in South Shore,” Levi derides, gliding down the length of her as if she’s nothing but basic thenmotions to Cairo. “I don’t need your used cunt if you’re fucking this trash. Good luck. You’ll just end up at the end of my gun when this shit’s all over.”

“The fuck did you say?” I carp out before I think better and rationally, stepping closer to them because he manhandles her again, I’m gonna fuck his ass up, even if it takes me all night to do it. “Did you just threaten her?”

“Yeah,” he replies, steering his moss greens to me and clearly, he’s unafraid of any three of us. I think the power’s going to his head because he never used to be this much of a fucking tool. “I did. This isn’t your fight, even your business. It’s mine.She’smine.”

And my fucking brain still doesn’t care.

“Levi, please?—”

His neck snaps back to her, disregarding the way her voice breaks at what he’s saying. “Shut the fuck up. I told youseveraltimes to stay the hell away from them and look where we’re at. Why the fuck do I keep seeing these three pieces of shit every time I turn the hell around?”

“It’s not…” She can’t even lie about it because itislike that. Torin has fucked her, and I’ve put my hands on her because I couldn’t resist.

I’m a homewrecker. Wouldn’t be the first time.

In spite of that fact, I care about this one. I’ve already caused embarrassment and allowed harm to come to Bay when that ice cream truck got flipped over.

I didn’t give that command, but I should’ve known the pricks I was running with were stupid as shit.

“Gofuckyourself,” Levi sneers, his expression twisting in pure loathing. “We’re done.”

He dismisses her with his back, striding toward the crowd and disappearing within it. I exhale my first real breath since hestarted poppin’ off at the mouth but when I look back to Bay, she’s already fleeting away.

“Reeve,don’t,” Cairo warns, but I’m already moving. The damage that’s done, I can’t fix, and it’s only going to be worse if I don’t try to do something. To make her feel better, to apologize and tell her she’s underserving of everything he just said back there.

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