Page 54 of Hunter
TWENTY-NINE
Note to self,don’t touch the demon’s phone and make sure she sticks to her schedule. Also, carry snacks because when this girl gets hungry, she gets so pissed that the devil would tuck his spade-shaped tail and run.
Alvi sent me a text and told me to lock up when we left. He said that he was stepping out to check on some activity in the neighborhood and to see what this new crew was up to.
It’s why I don’t want her stubborn-ass walking out here alone. I’m fucking waiting for them to start shit. I texted mybrother and told his ass to find a new route to run, too. The last thing I need is him running into this crew while he’s out there at 2 AM.
We turned some heads when we walked into the cafe together. She tried to ditch me a few times, but I stayed close. I was hersombra,that’s shadow in Spanish. I looked it up, and when I told her, she looked at me like I had lost my mind. I think I have. She stole it along with all of my insides. Fucking savage.
As soon as she started to eat her lunch, she didn’t pay any attention to me. She was tearing up her chocolate chip pancakes and only came up for air to cut up a banana into thin circles. She was locked in, concentrating, and cutting every single one to be the exact same size. I’d be a fucking idiot to interrupt her; she woulda stabbed me. And she’d probably just keep eating her lunch after, like it was no big deal.
I like watching her and being able to see her whenever I want to. As much as I want to know who Edison really is and about her past with Payton, I also know that now is not the time.
Because I had an opportunity to listen, and I wasn’t willing to sacrifice that. Not when sitting here with her felt so good. I was happy to sit there in silence with all the little details of who she is. I don’t need her to talk for me to hear her. I don’t need words to take notes.
The best part of lunch was when a Delta sorority sister came up to our table and tried to interrupt. Ed was glaring so fucking hard that it gave me a stiffy under the table. She was ready to catfight over me, and it made my cock hard as fuck. My crazy girl.
The worst part, though, was when I clocked Payton walking into the room from over Ed’s shoulder. Payton came in with the same woman who’d introduced her at the meeting the night before. The two of them passed through the dining hall and went straight into the faculty dining room. I didn’t want to disturbEd’s peace, so I didn’t say anything. I wasn’t gonna ruin the moment, not when she looked like she enjoyed the shit outta her food.
She got really fucking upset when her tutoring slot cancelled via text. She crossed her arms over her chest and stared out the floor-to-ceiling window. She looked defeated, and it hit me fucking hard like a puck to the throat. It sucked the air outta me, and I felt my lungs shrivel up. Because I did this to her, too, and now I was experiencing how it feels for her in real time. I’m gonna fucking murder whoever just blew her off.
“I don’t want you to be upset,” I tell her, and lean over the table.
“And I don’t want to have to go shower in the Athletic Center between practices, but that’s life, and that’s what I’m gonna go do now that I have an hour to kill,” she sounds pissed and starts gathering her things like she wants to leave.She showers in the Athletic Center? Oh fuck no, not anymore, she’s not.”
“I told you, you can use mine. I have my own bathroom. You can use it whenever you fucking want, Ed.”
“No thanks,” she says with a look of disgust.Fucking, demon.
“Why? You’d have privacy and would be more comfortable.”
“According to who? You?” She questions with this full-on sarcastic laugh that feels sinister.
“Well, yeah, I –” she cuts me off with her hands as they slice through the air.No knife required.
“¡Obvio no!Why would you think I’d want to shower in a house that’s filled with men? There’s no way that I’d consider that to be a better option for me.” She’s big, mad, and looking at me like I’m two inches tall.
“I’d change the locks on the front door and ban them from the house if it made you feel safer. I’d fucking make sure no one else saw you naked, Ed. I’d skin them with my skates.” And I would. “What? Why are you looking at me like that?”
“You said no one else, implying that you would see me like that,” she snaps, and her little finger points in my face as she stresses, ‘you.’That’s right, crazygirl, me.
“I mean, when people are together, they usually see each other naked. That’s just how it works,” I remind her as my head fills with thoughts of her under me, black hair fanned out around her pretty little head, those midnight eyes exploding with stars as I push into her for the first time.
Just thinking about fucking her has my body buzzing.Fucking hell, Ed, look what you’re already doing to me, you menace.I reach down to squeeze my dick before adjusting him in my pants. He’s fucking dying to meet her.
“I don’t look like the women you’re used to being with when they take their clothes off for you. And we’re not together,cabrón,” she hisses out.Such a feisty little back cat.
“Ed, it doesn’t matter if their clothes were on or off, I couldn’t tell you one thing about any one of them. They don’t fucking matter,” I tell her sternly and hold her stare as her eyebrows disappear under her beanie hat before squinting at me.
She’s questioning me but not expecting my answers. That’s fine, I’ll make it my fucking mission to poke holes in every theory she has about us. She leans back in her chair, looking down at her lap, and I refuse to lose to her thinking that she’s anything less than perfect.
“And I can tell you right now,” the sound of my voice snaps her eyes back to mine and I take my time looking her over when I say, “I already know that you’re gonna be the only woman I wanna see naked…” her cheeks turn a pretty pink and I get lost thinking about making her whole body blush, “...over… and over… and over again.” Pretty little thing sucks in a breath, and I hear it get caught in her throat as her eyes dart away from mine.Oh, baby, we’re gonna have so much fun when you let me in.
“Pfff, you sound so sure.” She’s trying to give me attitude, even though she can’t bring herself to look at me. She’s bright red and trying to fight me on the inevitable. We’re happening, and she knows it; her crumbling defiance is falling faster than the walls she’s built around herself.
“Ohh, I am definitely sure, and just so we’re clear, Ed, we are together. This is us together.” I remind her and motion my hand between us.
“¿Oh sí?Says who?” She asks with a spunky smirk.Fucking hell, this girl.That spicy mouth of hers makes my fucking dick hard.
