تسجيل الدخولFrantically shaking my head no, I lean forward to kiss him, a new kind of urgency this time, as though I am working against a clock, needing it to be finished as quickly as possible. Ideally before the guys notice.
He tugs my underwear to the side, his fingers sliding into place, running over my wetness, and pushing inside me with no more hesitation.“Fuck...” I whisper against his lips, separating from the kiss just enough to catch the moan that wants so desperately to tumble from myThe alarm goes off at six forty-five and Elias lies there for a full thirty seconds listening to it before he reaches over and turns it off.He stares at the ceiling.He is going back to school. He, Elias Arden, who was expelled from the last one approximately three weeks ago, is putting on a uniform and presenting himself at the gates of a new institution as though the previous one did not end with a letter from the principal and a boy in a medical wing.The specific absurdity of it would be funny if it were happening to someone else.He sits up.The flat is cold, the heating system doing its best and falling short, and he pulls on a hoodie over his pyjamas before he even thinks about the uniform. He checks the time on his phone and sees it is fine, he has forty minutes before he needs to leave, which is enough time to make breakfast and check on his mother.He hates being the new kid because it always brings too much attention. People stare and whisper and try to figure out wh
#74"I look like a literal child," Garvin says, holding the uniform blazer at arm's length with the expression of a man being asked to wear a hazmat suit to a dinner party. "Who designed this? Who sat down and thought, yes, this is what a human being should put on their body voluntarily?"Elias takes a sip of water and watches his friend examine the thing like it might be contagious. They are in the back of the gym between sessions, the afternoon light coming through the high windows in long strips, and Garvin has been having variations of this same conversation for the better part of thirty minutes."You've been complaining about that blazer since you bought it," Elias says."Because the complaining is justified," Garvin says. "It has a crest on the pocket. A crest. Like I'm going to a medieval tournament.""A lot of schools have crests.""A lot of schools are also wrong," Garvin says, throwing the blazer into his open locker and closing it like the uniform might escape if given the
A/N: Double upload today as an apology for being inconsistent lately. I promise you guys, I'm trying my best but school is after my lifeeee.Also, for those that have been commenting, thank you so much. So many times I'm stressed af and wonder if this is worth it at all, but knowing I have a few people actually reading is literally the only reason I haven't given up on this story just yet. So thank you for the comments. I read every single one and I promise you have absolutely no idea how much they mean to me.~The study door is closed and I am sitting at the dinner table staring at it.Lucas is looking at me. Tyler has his elbows on the table and is pretending to check his phone, but I can tell from the angle of his head that he is watching the study door the same way I am. The lamb is getting cold in the serving dish and nobody is suggesting we finish eating, because finishing eating would require pretending that what just happened was minor, and n
Aunt Selene pulls me into another quick hug before she turns toward my mother who has stepped back into the room. “Nora, I have missed you so much.” She wraps her arms around her next and holds on for a moment. “Life has made us all way too serious lately. I saw Tyler and Lucas downstairs in the sitting room and they told me Lucia was up here so I thought I would check on her first. Luckily I found both of you together having some mother daughter bonding time.” I look down at my hands and fidget with the edge of my sleeve. Selene notices immediately, because of course she does, and looks between the two of us. “Did I interrupt something important?” My mother glances at me before answering. “Oh it is nothing serious. We were just having a little mother and daughter chat.” Selene’s eyes move to me and then she gasps, bringing both hands to her face in the theatrical way she has always had. “Oh my God. Was it a boy? Lucia, is there a man? Tell me everything immediately.”
I step out of the cab and pay the driver quickly before he can ask any questions about why a girl in expensive clothes is standing outside a neighborhood gym at this hour. I am not entirely sure what I am going to say when I find him. I have been running through versions of it since I climbed out of my bedroom window forty minutes ago, and every version ends the same way, which is me telling him to stay away from my family. I do not care if my father actually did what Elias keeps accusing him of, but he needs to stay away from us from now on. But first things first. I push through the gym’s front door and go directly to the office, because Alvin will know where he is and Alvin is faster than scanning the whole building myself. I open the door without knocking. “Where the hell is Elias?!” Alvin looks up from whatever he is doing with the stacks of paper on his desk and regards me with the expression of a man who has seen a wide variety of things walk through that door
The breakfast tray has been sitting on my desk since nine this morning and it is now two in the afternoon and I have not touched it, which means the eggs have progressed through several distinct phases of inedibility and are now simply a monument to my current state of mind.I am going insane. That is not hyperbole, that is a clinical observation about what happens to a person when you remove school, friends, freedom of movement, and meaningful human contact and replace them with four walls and an online curriculum that arrives in my inbox at eight every morning like a particularly cheerful bill.I get up and stand in front of my mirror, mostly because I have been lying in the same position for so long that my body requires evidence that I am still three-dimensional. My eyes are swollen from the particular combination of not enough sleep and too much thinking, and my hair is doing something that requires addressing. I look at myself for a long moment and try to have a productive inte
The sight of Maya on our couch with her legs crossed, looking like she’s waiting for room service, snaps something inside me and I just move. I cross the living room in three strides, my hands already curling into fists, ready to wipe that calm smile off her face with every ounce of rage that’s b
Maya stands frozen under the bright lights of the Red Room, her chest rising and falling too fast, eyes wide with the kind of shock that only comes when every careful plan collapses in the same heartbeat. Blood is drying on my arms, sticky and warm, but none of it is mine. The bodies of her men lie
Maya jerks backward from the impact, the bullet tearing through the meat of her shoulder. She staggers two steps with her right hand clamping over the wound and blood already seeping between her fingers. The knife she’d pulled from her boot clatters to the floor. Her eyes are wide and locked on the
The bedroom door is barely closed before David's hands are on me, sliding up under the thin silk of my robe as he backs me against the wall.I tilt my head back against the cool plaster, letting him kiss down the column of my throat while my fingers work the buttons of his shirt open. His skin is s


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