Page 313 of Blood & Betrayals

Zane stubbornly remains seated for a long moment, but when she glances back at him over her shoulder, he gets to his feet and starts toward her. He doesn’t even pause but sweeps her up and hikes her over his shoulder, carrying her out of the cafeteria.

Rafe’s lip curls in a sneer. “He has all the charm of a rock.”

My lips twitch.

“He’s insufferable,” Zach says, but Ashley quickly distracts him.

“Am I insufferable?” Connor asks, biting my cheek playfully.

I grab his face. “Not often.”

“But sometimes?” he asks with a small grin.

I lean in, biting his bottom lip. “Only when you’re too irresistible to me.”

Connor groans and whispers, “Stacks?”

I nod, kissing him deeply.

Connor lunges to his feet and grabs my hand, dragging me toward the door. I laugh as we charge through the halls of the school, my heels barely touching the ground thanks to Connor’s long strides. When we get to the library and near our shelf, Connor picks me up and kisses me deeply. His palms cup my ass, and his fingers slide over my panties, checking if I am ready for him. A low moan fills the air, and Connor stops dead.

Connor pulls back and then scowls when he hears Zane’s whispered voice.

“Have they… stolen our spot?” I whisper, feeling outraged and betrayed.

Connor peeks around the corner and quickly pulls back. “They have.” He sighs and lowers my feet to the ground.

I adjust my skirt and cross my arms. “Well, I’m going to go stop them.”

“Babe, you can’t do that,” Connor says, biting his lower lip.

I pout. “But I’m horny,” I growl.

Connor pulls me away so we can’t hear them anymore, and then he pulls me against his chest. “I know, but if you fuck with him, he will make it his life’s mission to barge in on us whenever possible.”

I narrow my eyes in the general direction of our stack. “You get this one, dick.”

Connor and I walk hand in hand back to the cafeteria, but I’m bristling the whole way. When we sit back down at the table, I pull my phone from my bag and send a message to Alice.

Summer

Zane is a dick. He took Connor and my’s stack.

So you can reap revenge or whatever. No rules.

Also, how are you feeling?

Connor nuzzles into my neck, and I glance at him. “What?”

“You’re cute when you’re murderously horny.”

My lips twitch, and I lean in, kissing him softly. I spend the rest of lunch chatting with Connor and Luke. I check my phone on the way to my next class, frowning when I see Alice hasn’t replied. She’s chronically on her phone. She is probably just sleeping, but I have a gnawing feeling of dread in my gut that won’t go away.

When she still hasn’t replied by the end of my class, I try to call her. The line rings and then disconnects after a while. I start toward my last class of the day, but something isn’t sitting right with me. Every instinct I have is whispering that something is wrong, so I decide to skip and go home to check on Alice.

All the way home, I try to convince myself that she’s just sleeping. I’ll wake her up, and she’ll be pissed at me for worryingand disturbing her rest. No doubt, she’ll make my life hell for a couple of hours.

I nearly run up the stairs to our floor. Music is blasting from somewhere, and my steps slow the closer I get to our dorm, realizing it’s coming from our place. I open the door, the music blaring aggressively from the stereo in the living room.

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