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“Yes.”

He gave her a hard kiss before he pulled back. “Don’t think.”

As he turned the key in the ignition, she faced forward and dazedly fastened her seat belt. Thinking was beyond her at the moment.

Neither of them said a word as Jesse raced back to campus. They pulled into the parking lot as the second bell that signaled they should already be in class rang. As she bailed out and prepared to run to class, Jesse called, “Vi!”

She pivoted to face him.

“You with me?”

He had an odd look on his face she couldn’t interpret and didn’t have time to decipher because she was late.

“Yes,” she shouted, exasperated, before she took off.

Chapter 11

JESSE

“Is it true?”

Jesse looked up from his notebook to find Blaine, Anton, and Brody in front of his desk. They were staring at him avidly as if… He straightened and crossed his arms over his chest as he leaned back in his chair. “Is what true?”

“That you beat up Tucker?” Blaine blurted and got elbowed by Anton.

Jesse narrowed his eyes. “Where’d you hear that?”

“One of the guys in Tucker’s band said you jumped him in the parking lot after school yesterday. Did you?”

Brody eyed Jesse’s bruised, swollen knuckles and drawled, “That’s what I would have done if I heard the nasty rumors he was spreading about my sister. Me and some of the boys were thinking of kicking Tucker’s ass, regardless of whether it’s true or not.”

“It’s not true,” Jesse snapped.

“It isn’t?” Blaine asked and took a step back as Jesse shot to his seat.

“Violet never slept with him.” The memory of him claiming her virginity made his dick twitch. He sat before any of them noticed he was getting an erection. “She’s breaking up with him.”

“Because she heard what he said about her?”

“No,” he growled and fixed them with a level look. “She came to the conclusion that he’s a dick all on her own. I don’t want her to hear what Tucker said about her. It’ll just upset her.”

“How are you going to stop her from hearing about it? It’s all over school.”

“By countering it with the truth. She wouldn’t sleep with him, so Tucker started that rumor to ruin her reputation. It’s as simple as that.”

Anton and Blaine glanced at one another before they left to spread the word, leaving Brody behind.

“I would have had your back if you asked me to come with you,” Brody said.

“I know.”

“Coach Rick was pissed you took off like that.”

“I apologized to him this morning.”

“How much damage did you do?”

Jesse flexed his sore hand. “Enough. I wanted to do more, but it’s probably best I didn’t. He’d be in the hospital, otherwise. He’ll think twice before he pulls a stupid stunt like that with Violet or any other girl.”

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