Page 21 of The Revenge You Seek
I drop my head, thinking of my brother and everything he went through because I was distracted. Because of her.
The class passes faster than I thought possible but I barely hear any of it. Today might be turning out to be better than I expected, but I kinda hoped I’d make abetter start with my classes. I missed two yesterday and I've just fucked this one up.
It really is just like high school all over again. Too distracted by a dark-haired beauty to focus on what I should be listening to.
I'm slow packing up, mostly on purpose because I want to watch her run from the room like her ass is on fire.
She might want to appear that she's not affected by my appearance, but it's all lies.
She's terrified.
Exactly as she should be.
In the end, I'm one of the last out of the auditorium. There are a few guys I vaguely recognize from our session this morning but none of them so much as attempt to talk to me. I get it. Their loyalty is to their captain.
Pulling the folded up piece of paper from my back pocket, I stare down at the campus map and try to figure out where I can find some food before my statistics class in an hour.
I grab myself a sandwich when I finally locate the campus coffee shop and by the time I've eaten it and then found the right building for my next class, I'm almost late.
The auditorium is abuzz with student chatter as I step through the door, almost all the seats taken.
I scan the room, looking for a place to sit when my eyes land on a familiar bowed head.
Bingo.
The seats on either side of her are taken, but that's not going to stop me.
I march up the stairs toward where she is and come to a stop by the guy who's getting his iPad set up ready for the lecture beside her.
"You're in my seat," I say, making him stop what he's doing to turn to look up at me. Something about him is familiar and I'm not the only one who sees it because his eyes flash with recognition.
Next to him, Letty tenses at the sound of my voice but she refuses to look up despite the fact her body has locked up tight at the prospect of having to sit beside me.
"Sorry, but I'm pretty sure seats haven't been allocated in this class. Go find another."
"Huh." I tilt my head to the side as if I didn't understand his words. "Clearly, you didn't hear me properly. I said… you're in my seat, asshole."
The students surrounding us begin to pay attention but still, Letty doesn't so much as breathe while I stand here.
"Everything alright?" another guy says, coming to stand beside me but keeping his eyes on the guy who's sitting.
"It's okay," a quiet voice says from beside the guy. "Go and sit with Brax somewhere."
An accomplished smile twitches at my lips.
"But—" the guy argues, ripping his narrowed eyes from mine to look at Letty.
"It's okay." She smiles at him. Anyone else would think she meant it, but I see more than most, and she's anything but happy about this.
"Is everyone ready to start?" the professor says from behind me as the guy begins collecting up his things.
"We'll just be down there." He points to a couple of empty chairs a few rows down.
She nods at him and smiles again and he hesitantly gets up but he doesn't leave right away, instead, he levels me with a look that might have lesser guys running scared. Clearly, he has no idea who I am or what I'm capable of.
"Shoo," I say with a flick of my hand before dropping down into the now vacant seat and unpacking everything I need.
She's like a stone beside me, not moving and I swear not even breathing as she waits for what I'm going to do next.
