Page 25 of When Wrecked Meets Ruined
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“What’s shakin’, baby?” Jackson asked as we stood in the lunch line. Definitely a virgin.
Evie gave him the middle finger as she sailed past, head held high.
“Damn, that’s harsh,” Jackson said, shaking his head as if her reaction surprised him. I carried my lunch to our table and took a seat next to Walker. He was too wrapped up in his Leah love bubble to notice anything else. Guess they were back on again.
I crooked my finger at Ainsley Thorpe, the blonde, blue-eyed queen bee who had been flirting with me since day one and had made it blatantly obvious that she wanted me. On cue, she came running.
Evie despised Ainsley Thorpe. No idea why and I didn’t really give a shit. Ainsley was the perfect candidate for the job.
“Hey, Ridge.” She flipped her hair over her shoulder and gave me a dazzling smile. Some girls made it easy. Too easy. But this wasn’t about the chase. I wanted to make Evie pay.
“How’s it going?”
She licked her glossy pink lips and pushed out her tits. “Great. I’m throwing a party on Saturday night. Will you be there?”
My gaze landed on Evie at the table across from mine. Her brilliant green eyes shot daggers at me. Zing. Straight to the heart.
After ensuring that Evie was still watching, I tugged Ainsley into my lap and fed her a french fry from my plate. She ate like a hamster. No carbs for Ainsley Thorpe. But she ate that fry and the next and licked the salt off my fingers, playing right into my hands.
“It wouldn’t be much of a party if I didn’t show up, now, would it?”
She batted her lashes, a smile playing on her lips as she trailed her hand down my chest. “My thoughts exactly.”
My eyes met Evie’s across the room as my lips claimed Ainsley’s.Payback is a bitch, baby.
Evie’s eyes narrowed to slits as she sank her teeth into the flesh of a shiny red apple. So vicious. So fucking sexy.
Why did every little thing she did turn me on? If I had a dollar for every time I’d jerked off to the vision of Evie in my head, I’d be able to buy a used car.
I wasn’t done playing with her yet, and I hadn’t given up on the idea of making her mine, but I’d bide my time until the right opportunity came along.
As it turned out, the gods smiled on me. Not only did we win the state championship, but I’d also gotten a full ride to a D1 college, and I had Evie Bellamy exactly where I wanted her.
She just didn’t know it.Yet.
PART2
CHAPTERNINE
Ridge
In the past eight months,Evie and I had barely spoken a word to each other.
Now she was sauntering toward the picnic table where I was sitting with Walker outside the roadside taco joint. She had her best friend in tow and a “don’t fuck with me” look on her face.
“Don’t get any ideas.” Her green eyes narrowed on me as she took a seat next to me. “We just needed a place to sit.”
“Whatever you say.” I swiped the fountain drink out from under her nose and took a sip through the straw. Root beer. Evie loved root beer. She loved horror flicks, pineapple on her pizza, thunderstorms, and her best friend’s smile. She hated social media and celebrity gossip. Believed in God but thought religion was overrated.
I knew a lot about Evie. She just didn’t know it was me she’d confided in.
“What are you doing? That’s my drink.” She tried to grab it out of my hand, but I pulled it away and took another sip. “Get your filthy lips off my straw.”
Time to reveal my cards. I’d been biding my time for the right opportunity, and what do you know, it had just landed in my lap. I set her drink on the table. “Just checking to see if it was Cherry Cola,Cherry.”
Her eyes widened, and a little gasp escaped her lips. “You’re… no.” She shook her head. “No way. It can’t be you….” She visibly paled with a look of horror on her face.
