Page 232 of Boys Who Taint

“I wasn’t the one who stalked you or hung cameras in your room,” he says.

“No, you blackmailed me.” She shakes her head. “You’re all so, so, so … GAHHH!”

She stomps away through the sand, and we’re left staring at each other with disdain in our eyes. None of us is willing to give in. Not to each other.

But she … she is the one thing that binds us all together, whether we want to or not.

She’s beguiled us all.

I sigh and turn my eyes away from Levi even though I want nothing more than for him to pay for all the pain he’s caused her.

“Aspen! Wait!” I yell, following suit, with the two others trailing.

Aspen

“You all wantto kill each other, then go right ahead,” I yell back.

What the fuck am I even doing?

I grab my bag off the ground and waltz off through the woods, ignoring the yelling behind me. I’m done trying to keep them from killing each other. I’m done trying to fight off the inevitable clash that’s coming. And I’m done with men who can’t fucking share and want to rip me to pieces so they can all own a part of me.

Rain still cascades down on top of me, but I no longer feel the cold. I shove aside some leaves in my way as I stomp out of the woods and jump into my car. Levi’s motorcycle is right in front of my car, and I pause and blink a couple of times as the filthymemories of what we just did flash through the forefront of my mind.

My chest tightens, the smell of him still lingering on the hoodie I’m wearing.Hishoodie.

Still, I put the car in reverse.

Right then, my door is ripped open by an arrogant smile, the first thing I see of Apollo Torres.

“Get out,” he says.

“Let go.” I try to jerk the door, but he’s much stronger than I am.

“No.”

“I’m going home. End of story.”

“Not like this,” he says.

I frown. “You don’t get to dec—”

“Fine.” Suddenly, he leans in and wraps his arms around my waist and thighs, lifting me out of the car with ease.

I slap him on the arm. “Let go of me! I’m not going back!”

He ignores me and carries me around the car, then opens the passenger door and sets me down there. “No one said anything about going back there.” He leans over, muscles bulging, even in that hoodie of his, and when I look up, I finally notice he took out the red contacts he used to pretend he was my stalker. “But I’m not going to let you drive like this, Freckles.”

Not going to let me?! Who does he think he is?

As my lips part to shout, he shuts the car door, leaving me fuming.

But when I look through the mirror, there’s Levi and Grey, walking on opposite sides of the road, as far away from each other as they possibly can, neither of them attempting to go back to their own vehicles.

And then they both circle my car and open their respective back-seat door.

What the…

I narrow my eyes while glaring at them through the rearview mirror as they sit down in my car, each in their own corner, shoved against the window.

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