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“Don’t make me threaten her,” I shot back. “Play nice, Lake, and Eden will be safe.”
“Whatever you’re up to, leave Eden out of it,” she demanded. “She has nothing to do with this.”
“Well, now, her role in all this depends entirely on you.”
“Lake, don’t worry about me,” Eden said through the window. “If you don’t want to go with him, just get out of the car.” The girl wasn’t a coward, I’d give her that.
When Lake turned to look back at her friend, my hand on her arm tightened. If Lake got out of this car, shit was going to get ugly. Well, ugly for her, not me.
I already knew I was fucked when I couldn’t stop thinking about her. And I knew my dick was fucked every single time I thought about how she fought back. But standing in the SC High’s parking lot, watching her walking with Eden, unguarded and casual, had added a whole other level of crazy to what I’d already been feeling. Especially, when Eden had mentioned how her ex-boyfriend had been watching us.
It had been a gamble when I had leaned forward to kiss Lake on the neck, but it had paid off. With her ex-boyfriend watching, I’d felt pretty confident that she wouldn’t push me off. Pride was a motherfucker, and Lake Warren had it in spades. She might be over her cheating ex, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t still a bit bitter about it all.
Lake let out a deep breath. She looked at her friend, and said, “It’s okay, Eden. I’ll call you tonight and explain everything. I promise.”
Eden started chewing on her bottom lip. “I don’t know, Lake…”
“It’s not as bad as it looks,” Lake lied. “I swear. It’s okay.”
She didn’t look convinced, but said, “Call me as soon as you get home, okay?”
Lake nodded. “I promise.”
Then Eden Rudolph impressed me more when she looked over at me and said, “I don’t know what the hell is going on, but if anything happens to Lake, I won’t care who you are.”
I arched a brow. “Careful who you talk to like that, Eden,” I warned, regardless of how impressed I might have been. “Lake’s a big girl. She can take care of herself. You might want to remember that before you put everyone you love on my shit list.” I wasn’t winning any points with Lake by threatening her friend, but I couldn’t have her thinking I wasn’t serious about this shit. Abouther.
Lake’s head jerked back towards me. “I said that’s enough,” she snapped before turning back to Eden. “I promise it’s okay,” she repeated. “I’ll call you, okay?”
Eden nodded her head, but the girl was pissed. “Okay,” she finally relented, and with that, she turned and walked towards her house.
Once Lake had refastened her seatbelt, I let go of her arm. However, she was quick to light into me. “Don’t ever threatened Eden again,” she hissed. “I mean it, Ramsey.”
I pulled the car away from the curb. “I already told you,” I replied. “That’s entirely up to you.”
“You’re a bastard.”
“I know exactly who my father is,” I chuckled darkly.
Her voice was low when she remarked, “We all do.”
Ignoring her comment as I drove us more towards the upper hills of Sands Cove, I said, “Open the glove compartment.”
“Why?”
“Just fucking do it, Lake,” I snapped, not used to people challenging me.
She did was she was told, opened it, and pulled out the folders. I didn’t say anything as she sifted through them, the point I was making obvious.
Outrage was plain as day in her voice. “What in the hell do you want from me?”
“I don’t want anything from you,” I told her.
“Then what is it you want?
“I don’t want anythingfromyou, Lake,” I told her. “What I wantisyou. Just you.Allof you.”
Chapter 8
