Page 11 of The Lying Game


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Stone shakes his head. “No, but seeing you squirm makes it a hell of a lot more fun.”

I scowl at him. Right now, he has control, and it’s pissing me off.

“I don’t need much. I’m a humble man.” He puts his hand to his chest. “I just need you to take a couple of tests for me. One subject, it’s not too much to handle.”

I blink at him. “What? Take your own tests.”

“Come on…you know you want to. For me.” He steps closer to me. His body is so close to mine a sigh would press us together, and I’m suddenly enveloped in the smell of him. He’s tall, handsome,delicious.

But he’s a Class-A jerk.

I shove him away from me. He might make me melt into my panties when he gets that close, but I’m not an airhead, thinking that sex with Stone Giles will make my world go round.

Stone shakes his head, irritated that his advances don’t work on me. If he didn’t hide it so well, I might even think it shocks him.

“You’re a piece of work, you know that?” he asks.

I shrug.

“If my grades aren’t good, I get kicked off the hockey team.” He crosses his arms over his chest, and it makes his muscles bulge in ways I don’t want to like. Does he know what effect he has on people? “They’ll draft me soon, but they won’t do that unless I actually play. You’re not even in school, so it’s not like it can damage anything you have if you get caught.”

“And you didn’t thinkstudyingwould work for you? It’s a great way to pass tests, if you haven’t heard.”

“Your sarcasm isn’t cute,” he says bluntly. His words smart more than they should. I don’t want to care what he thinks of me. “And I have better shit to with my time.”

“No way,” I say, shaking my head. “I’m not taking your test for you. Do you have any idea how much trouble that can get us both in?”

“Okay.” He sniffs and starts walking away. “Bet it will cause a big ripple when they hear you snuck your way in and you’re not supposed to be here. Pity, I hear people like you who can cheat the system are smart enough to do great things.”

I know he’s got me. Damn it! I don’t doubt for a second that he’ll expose me if I don’t do what he says. Stone Giles isn’t someone with a conscience.

“What subject is it?” I ask.

He stops and grins at me. “Communications,” he says. He opens his backpack and fishes out a textbook that’s barely been touched. He probably hasn’t even cracked it. “It would bode you well to sit in on the lectures, too. I hear they’re pretty informative.”

He knows he’s got me. I take the book from him and flip through the pages.

“This is a lot of learning.”

Stone shrugs. “Which is why I’m not doing that shit.”

“I have classes and tests too, you know. And what happens when exams roll around or our tests are double-booked?”

“What happens when you miss a test or two?”

Nothing. That’s what will happen. Nothing at all. Which is why this will work for him. He knows exactly what he has.

I want to tell him to go fuck himself. I want to tell him to get lost, to never talk to me again. He can’t use me like that!

But he can, and he will because he has dirt on me that’s going to ruin my life if I don’t do what he says. If I get kicked out of here, I’m screwed. I won’t have anywhere to go because going back home isn’t an option. I have nothing left.

I want to scream at him and throw the textbook at his head. When he hands me a class schedule and a list of test dates, I want to shove it all down his throat—or up his ass.

But I take it from him.

“You’re not going to get away with this that easily,” I grumble.

“You see, that’s the beauty of it: I am. The student who did this for me before nearly got caught, and that was just going to turn ugly. But you…you don’t exist. And that’s exactly what I need.”

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