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“Don’t worry, I’m not interested in any of them, they’re just for practice,” he says, stealing the kiwi from my plate, only to slurp it out in front of me. “Practice for pleasing the woman I actually want.”

Holy shit, he did not just say that.

I grab my food tray.

“Don’t get up.” He eyes me, and I pause. “They’ll kill you if you walk away now.”

I frown. “Why?”

“Because you talked to me.”

“You sat down atmytable!” I scoff.

“To escape them,” he says. “And this table doesn’t have your name on it. But I can definitely see us making thisourtable.” He licks his lips.

“You really are insufferable, you know that, right?” I reply.

“Only for you, Freckles,” he retorts, taking another lick of his kiwi in a suggestive manner. “Are you coming to the bonfire tonight?”

“With my friends,” I reply.

“I can be your friend,” he says, finishing his—my—kiwi by chucking it back onto my plate. “And you definitely want me to be your friend.” His eyes rise underneath those dark eyelashes, and the sudden shift in the air doesn’t go unnoticed. “Instead of your enemy.”

I swallow. That was definitely a threat.

“Anyway, just think about it.” He grabs the napkin and wipes his mouth. “You know where to find me.”

He gets up and waltzes off, each of his steps reverberating through the floor, right into my bones.

“And where’s that?” I retort.

He glances over his shoulder, sporting that same devilish smirk from before. “Wherever you are.”

CHAPTER 11

Apollo

I takeanother swig of my drink and set it down on the pile of firewood next to me. A fire blazes not too far from here, and guess who’s at the forefront, dancing to the flames?

Aspen fucking Caruso.

I grin as I watch her having the time of her life with her friends, blissfully unaware that she’s being watched.

But I can wait. I have all the time in the world.

All the time for her to come running straight into my arms when the time is right.

I admit, that whole thing with Levi being branded a killer because of Mavis’s death has offered me an opportunity I cannot ignore. Despite my best efforts, those two used to only have eyes for each other. And now that she hates his guts, I finally have a shot without becoming the villain of the story.

Although I’m sure Levi won’t see it that way … he won’t try to kill me.

After all, I’m one of the few allies he has left at this school.

We’re family. And family always shares.

A devious grin forms on my face, but the second I want to approach her, a guy with snowy-white hair appears out of nowhere and takes her out of her friends group to dance with her. Fuck me, it makes me grip the tree beside me so harshly I nearly rip the bark off barehanded.

“The boyfriend,” I mutter to myself, glaring at the motherfucker clutching her dainty ass like he owns it. But that ass is mine, and only my handprint belongs on that piece of her skin.

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