Page 23 of Sac-rifice
It took me a minute to rebound from that, but who the hell was I kidding?I was born for this conversation.“Don’t let that dirty little dove lie to you.I not only took the bait, I swallowed the damned hook and have been on her line our entire lives.”
“Really?”Auntie Rach’s eyes widened, refocusing her attention on Cor.“At least one of us is getting a good wienering.”
Cor’s face turned an even darker shade of red, and her mouth opened wide in shock, “Oh no!He…I…We…We aren’t…”
“What she’s trying to say is we aren’t together anymore.”She was struggling, so I threw her a bone.She might not ever forgive me, but I was determined.I lost her once, and I didn’t plan on doing it a second time.
Auntie Rach smacked her hand off the arm of the rocking chair.“And why the hell not?I’ve watched you for only a couple of minutes, and I can already see it.The way you two look at each other…no, the way you watch each other when the other isn’t looking, like you’d die without one another; that’s the kind of passion people read about in bestselling smut.”Her finger waved between Cor and me.“You’d be stupid to let that fire burn out.”
I didn’t know this woman at all, but there was no way she got all of that from us being on the porch with her.Either she was crazier than one of those rats she was referring to, or maybe Cor had talked to her about us.Cor wasn’t keen on sharing what was on her mind with a lot of people—at least she hadn’t been in the past—but she did seem less hostile to be here with Auntie Rach.
Cor shook her head.“He snubbed us out a long time ago,” she admitted in an irritated voice, waving at Auntie Rach before she opened her front door and went inside.
I took a step in the same direction to follow her and noticed Auntie Rach smiling at me.“Don’t give up on her, biker.She still has eyes for you.Trust me.”
“I hope.”
CHAPTER17
EXCUSES WE TELL
SAC
Past
“Dude, look at this one!”Isaac said a little too loudly, sitting up while gripping the pages of the porn magazine he stole from Davey’s stash.He gawked at this month’s centerfold, holding it out to pass it to me, and I waved him off.“Suit yourself.Your loss.”He turned the page and settled back onto his pillow, oohing and ahing every once in a while when someone caught his attention.
I’d always had a hard time handling another guy’s porn mags, mostly because I was a guy.Guys knew guys.If you put a naked woman in front of anyone with a working cock, things were bound to get messy.Full pun intended.With that in mind, I wasn’t excited to flip through the pages of an old magazine that belonged to someone else.I wasn’t hard up enough to casually thumb through the pages that may or may not have old jizz on them.Add that on top of the unhinged urge I had to put an end to the very person who Isaac stole it from, and I had no interest at all.
“This one looks like the chick you have a crush on,” Isaac casually announced, peering at me over the magazine briefly.My heart skipped a beat, and my mouth was suddenly the driest it had been my entire life.Did Cor tell him what happened between us?I didn’t think she had, seeing as Isaac was still speaking to me and I was currently spending the night with him.I needed to play it cool, just in case.
He flipped the pages around for me to inspect, and I shifted my gaze and zeroed onto the face staring at me from the second page.“Nah.Looks nothing like her.”
“What?Are you fucking blind?That looks just like Megan from English class,” he said, studying her face.“See.”His fingertip landed on the middle of her face.“She has the same color hair.”He wasn’t wrong.Mrs.Whichever Month She Happened To Be did look like the Megan he was talking about.The thing was, I didn’t have a crush on her.His sister was the only person I had ever wanted anything more with for as far back as I could remember.Of course, he didn’t know that, though.
“Yeah, that does look like Megan.”I chuckled nervously as beads of sweat dripped down my temples.
“Are you okay?You look a little sick.”
“Yeah.Maybe the burgers we ate,” I lied.I felt perfectly fine other than being fucking terrified he would find out I was in love with his sister.Betrayal on a level like that was grounds for beating someone’s ass in the unwritten guy code that every guy was supposed to live by.
Isaac was a callous individual when it came to people messing with or crossing his sister.In his eyes, I was probably his second line of defense, but when it came down to the things he didn’t know, I had more than likely surpassed him.He also might be the most unforgiving person I know.Last year, Dale Fortay bumped into Cor in the lunchroom, knocking her tray out of her hands and sending all of her food soaring in different directions.Isaac immediately got up and beat the kid within an inch of his life.He probably would have killed him if I hadn’t pulled him off Dale.He was that unforgiving when it came to her, and Dale had run into her purely by accident.Hell, Isaac still mean-mugged him in the hallway every time we passed him.I guess it hadn’t helped the situation when Dale immediately got up after her tray flew and yelled at Cor about how she should watch where she was going.Before Isaac reached him, I dove on top of him, landing a few good blows before Cor grabbed me.
“Dude, don’t throw up Wendy’s all over my room,” he said, scrunching his face with disgust.“Go take a shower or something.You’re sweating like a pig.”
“Yeah,” I muttered, wiping beads of sweat off my forehead.“Maybe you’re right.A shower might help.”I had showered before I walked over, but he didn’t know that, and I needed to get out of this room with him.There was no denying how I felt about Cor even if I hadn’t told her.Neither of us had actually said the words; we weren’t even dating.All I knew was having her lips move against mine was the best feeling in the world, and I wanted more.It wasn’t because I was a horny teenager; I was smart enough to know the difference.I wanted to date her, love her, marry her, and, eventually, grow old with her.These thoughts weren’t normal for a seventeen-year-old boy to have, but that didn’t make them any less authentic.I wanted everything with her; however, what I wanted more was for her to win at life.I hated how Davey treated her and the fact that we kept what he did to her a secret.She deserved so much more than what she got out of this world, and one day, when I could, I intended to give it to her.
* * *
I had a lot on my mind walking down the dark narrow hallway of their house.Cor’s bedroom light was still on.My feet stopped in front of her door, and it took everything I had to keep from turning the knob and disappearing for a while with her.Isaac wouldn’t notice which room I was in, would he?Cussing under my breath, stared at the ceiling.Pathetic.I needed to tell him the truth.We respected each other as friends, and typically, we were able to work out any problems.And while I didn’t want to lose his friendship, I didn’t have a clue as to what I would do if he had a problem with Cor and me being together.
I huffed, turned on my heels, and rushed into the bathroom.If I stood there another second, I would have found myself alone in her room with her.I shouldn’t second guess or over-think being alone with her.We’d been alone in my room plenty of times, but that was before we kissed.Now, the sweet noises she made were in the forefront of my brain most of the time, and when they weren’t, I thought about when we’d be alone again.
A big gust of heat almost knocked me down as soon as I opened the bathroom door.Shit!Someone must be in here.The curtain was closed, and the water was running.I froze where I stood.“Hello?Cor is that you?”I called, squeezing my eyelids shut and waiting for the person in the shower to answer.It smelled glorious in here.It smelled like Cor, but why wasn’t she answering?
The thought of her naked in the shower only a few inches away was killing me.Great.I had just barely stopped sweating and now I was drenched.“Cor?”I called again.Again, no one answered.
The image of the bloody state she was in the last time she crawled through my window after Davey beat her was all I could think about.What if she was hurt?What if she was in there and hurt so badly that she couldn’t say anything?I was losing my shit, and at this point, I didn’t give a damn if I saw her naked as long as Davey hadn’t touched her.
