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“I’m just here to go to school,” she says. She tried to get up but Amber kicked out at her, hitting her in the shoulder, and she fell once more.
“Go somewhere else.”
Amber shakes with rage in my best friend’s grasp and I wish I knew what the hell was going on. The one thing I do know is that I can’t let Amber find out about our history. It would probably push her around the bend, and I know Amber is an unstable bitch on the best of days.
I help the young woman, the woman of my dreams, to her feet and that’s when she finally sees me. Her eyes go the size of saucers before she rips her arms from my grasp. She stares at me for a long moment before turning back to Amber.
“I have a scholarship to this college. I’m not going anywhere.”
With those words she turns on her heel and walks away, disappearing into the crowd of college students.
****
Kaelie Carter
I couldn’t get through my first week of college before everything turned to shit. I need to stay focused on what is important—getting my degree. It’s bad enough I had to take a year off between high school and college, I can’t afford any distractions right now. Even sexy, dangerous ones that I want to rub up against like a cat in heat.
Matthias Delgado. The one person I never expected to see again is here at Birchleigh College. When I walked away from Matthias over a year ago, I never thought I would see him again but now he’s here, and I feel like I can’t breathe.
Our time together was the best two days of my life. I could feel myself getting in too deep, falling in love with him, and I had to get away. A clean break. It was only supposed to be a fun weekend, my last chance to let go before I had to put all my focus into studying and building a better life for myself.
The moment I knew who he was I knew it couldn’t last. The Delgado cartel, his father’s cartel, is my family’s opposition. And even though they’re trying to find a way to make peace and stop all the bloodshed, I swore I would get away from that life and start from scratch. Matthias would one day take over from his father, Nero, and I had to make sure I was as far away from him as possible when that happened.
So, I ran and changed my number. It was only a month later that my plans changed but by then I had convinced myself he had moved on. I never tried to find him.
It’s been two hours since my altercation with Amber and my eye hurts like hell. It’s swollen and discolored from the sucker punch she caught me with but there’s nothing I can do about that now.
A knock sounds on the door to my dorm room and I don’t even consider that I don’t know anyone here before opening the door.
“Kaelie.”
Matthias stands outside in the hallway staring at me. My breathing freezes as I take him in, just as gorgeous as I remember. Dark hair, olive skin, those damn dimples that have driven me crazy since the first moment I laid eyes on him.
“What are you doing here?” I hiss, peering out into the hallway.
“I wanted to see you.” He smiles again and my heart breaks at his sincerity.
But I can’t do this. Too much time has passed, too many things have happened. I can’t let Matthias back into my life no matter how badly I want to fall into his arms and let him hold me.
“Go away.”
“Kaelie,” he starts but I cut him off.
“We had some fun. It was great but I’ve moved on. You should do the same.”
I slam the door in his face and listen as he walks away. My legs finally give out and I slide down to the ground. Resting my back against the door I allow the sobs to finally break free. My heart hurts and I press my palm against my chest, trying to keep the pain away.
Seeing him here, being this close to him again, is my greatest dream come true. And my greatest fear.
Chapter Two
Matthias Delgado
When she closed that door in my face my heart sunk to my feet. I have wanted nothing more than to get her back in my life—and arms—for over a year, and she simply discards me at the first chance.
I have never been good at taking rejection and this is driving me insane. She hurt me. Her words hurt me. And the only thing I can think about is hurting her back. I watch her closely on campus for days until she has another run-in with Amber. I watch Amber push her down on the gravel outside her dorm. I see the pain in her gaze when she stands again, her hands and knees skinned and bloody.
Kaelie pulls her shoulders back as she walks away.
