Page 89 of Heart of Gold
Phoenix
Why the fuck are they even there? We have a road game this weekend. We leave at 7am.
Crap, I forgot about that!
Phoenix
Yeah, I know, you’ll miss me.
Yes and no. I told you I’d stay at your apartment with Daisy! But I can’t, I have to drive home this weekend for a dress fitting for my sister’s wedding.
Phoenix
Pretty girl, it’s fine. I can pay someone to stay with the dog.
Ugh, I feel bad.
Phoenix
No. I promise it’s okay. I wish you were coming to the game, though.
Me too, but you’ll play great. I’ll wear your jersey.
Phoenix
…. Now I am picturing you in my jersey.
I can’t help but grin at my phone, but when I look up, Grayson is still watching me. He drops the empty glass bottle, his eyes never leaving mine, and I jump when it shatters against the pavement.
I backpedal when his feet start moving in my direction, and just as I’m about to ask him what he wants, he grabs my arm.
“We need to talk,” he slurs. His grip tightens to a bruising hold. I jerk away hard and the back of my foot crunches down on a beer bottle. The glass slices through my ankle as I lose my balance and my head smacks against the ground.
Everything goes black.
chapter thirty-seven
Gavin
“You need to stop pouting you fucking simp,” Levi laughs and yells at Remi though his gaming headset.
“I amnotpouting,” I argue. “I’m just bored.”
Levi growls and tosses his controller on the coffee table, losing the match they were in. “You have walked Daisy a hundred times and for the last thirty minutes you’ve paced a hole in the hardwood floor. I get it, she’s cool, but damn it’s okay to be away from her for five minutes.”
I blow out a breath, “Collins is there.”
Levi chuckles, “And you are worried about him messing with her? You broke his fucking arm, Gav. Likely ended his season. Don’t you think that was enough of a warning?”
I shrug, “I didn’t mean to break his arm. I meant tothreatento break it, and besides, he hit me first.”
I point to the small scar above my eyebrow.
He holds up his hands like he’s innocent, “I’m just saying, do you really think he’d mess with her?”
My phone rings across the room, and Levi shakes his head when I nearly hurdle the back of the couch to get to it. I smile when I see Quinn’s name fill the screen.
“Just can’t get enough of me, huh?” I tease.
