Page 26 of The Hallows Boys

“Hey!” I yell, but none of them turn around to look at me. They don’t even acknowledge the fact I’m alive, and that makes me see fuckingred.

“So you’re just going to ignore me?” I huff a humorless laugh. “Act like nothing happened?”

Vinny’s lips twitch like he wants to say something, so I mark him as the weakest link and go in for the kill. “You’re going to pretend you didn’t have your dick down my throat two days ago, Vinny?!”

Kaiden spins around, pinning me with a look. “Go.”

He points over my head, directing me somewhere, but I stand firm, crossing my arms over my chest in defiance. The corner of his mouth kicks up in a half-smirk as I stare into his eyes. His nostrils flare a little. “Let’s go.”

He grabs me by the arm and starts pulling me behind him toward the bathroom, making me grunt loudly. Once he has me through the door, he closes it and spins around to face me.

Walking toward me predatorily, he backs me against the door. “What are you doing, Sage Lindman?”

All confidence has fizzled out of my lungs, making me feel small and weak as he stands over me and searches me with dark eyes.

“I don’t know,” I mumble.

My voice is small, as if it’s trying really hard not to escape my lips from embarrassment.

He doesn’t speak, just stares at me with those big eyes, like he’s waiting for a better answer. He blinks a few times to drive the point home that he’s still waiting for an explanation, so I clear my throat to cut through some of the tension.

“I think it’s fucked up you haven’t talked to me all day.”

He chuckles darkly, his gaze moving from mine to trace down my body like he’s trying to undress me without touching me. His hands move to my waist, making me pull a heavy breath in through my mouth as reminders of the graveyard take over and occupy my mind.

Leaning forward, his face falls into my neck. My back arches as if on instinct, and my head turns to the side to give him more room to touch my skin with his mouth. I feel his lips curve into a smile against the flesh of my neck, right where my pulse is hammering under my skin.

“Kaiden…” I moan, desperate for him.

He kisses me on my neck with wet, open-mouthed kisses. Moving around my neck, he trails his lips and tongue up and down my throat, then speaks against my skin. “You need attention, Sage?”

I nod my head, and when he bites my skin, I moan loudly.

He licks me then, trailing his tongue across my skin until he reaches my earlobe. He bites there, his voice coming out as a growl when he finally speaks.

“Do not confuse my dick for my heart.” He kisses me on the ear. “You mean nothing to me.”

All the oxygen whooshes from my lungs like he’s punched me in the gut for real, instead of just with his hateful words. He pulls back from my neck to look at me, his face a stone mask of boredom. Tears lick at the backs of my eyes, but I press my eyelids closed so they don’t fall in front of him. I refuse to show him the weakness I’m feeling when it comes to him, no matter how horrible I’m feeling deep in my soul.

He takes a step backwards before he reaches for the door handle. Rushing to get out of the way, I move to the opposite side of the room so he can open the door and leave.

The door slams closed behind him, triggering my tears to fall down my cheeks effortlessly as I open my eyes.

I stare at myself in one of the mirrors that hangs above the sinks, finding my skin flushed and splotchy with humiliation and misery. I barely recognize the girl staring back at me. The sunshiny cheerleader from California is nowhere to be found – here, in Blackmore, I’m different. Reckless, hopeless, dark and depressed. The girl I once was might as well have died alongside her parents, because she’s fucking gone.

PartTwo

The Games

The Hallows Games

EST. 2000–BLACKMORE, GA

The Hallows Games were created by the founders for the sole purpose of release. One day a year, on October 31, for the entirety of the Hallows Games, you may do as you please to relieve the pressures of the current year. Only for the twenty-four hours of Halloween may you act recklessly, selfishly, boundlessly, and hedonistically. Outside of The Hallows Games, you must carry yourself with grace, poise, dignity, composure, intelligence, and superiority. You must hold your fellow Hallows Brothers ahead of anyone else, including but not limited to blood related family.

THE GAME RULES

You must choose one female to participate in the games. Her sole purpose is to please the Hallows Boys any way they may request.

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