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“I’m not getting in trouble for you and certainly not forhim.” Her eyes shoot daggers at Stone.
“I’ll go,” Stone says. He stands and buckles his pants. When he yanks his shirt down again, I’m trying to slow my heartbeat.
“This isn’t over,” he says to me. His words are a combination of lust and anger, and I don’t know if he means the sex or our feud.
God, I hope he means the sex.
Lacey watches him go, arms folded. All that’s missing is her tapping her foot on the ground.
“Thanks for that,” I say sarcastically when she shuts the door, and we’re alone.
“What the hell were you thinking?” she asks. “Do you have any idea what the penalty is for something like that? You’ll get kicked out of the dorm.”
I didn’t think about that. If I lose my room, I’m fucked, even if my dad doesn’t tell anyone what’s going on.
“Sorry,” I mutter. “I should have been more careful.”
“Yeah,” Lacey says. It doesn’t sound like forgiveness, but whatever.
Her face softens a moment later, and she walks to my bed, sitting on the edge.
“What are you doing with him anyway?” she asks. “He’s bad news, Raina.”
“You didn’t seem to think so when you were flirting with him,” I say.
Lacey sighs. “Look, I get it, okay? He’s hot, he’s popular, and being seen with him automatically bumps you up to royalty around here. I’d be lying if I said I don’t want that. But he doesn’t care about anyone. The only person he cares about is himself, and he’ll do whatever it takes to stay at the top, no matter what.”
“Yeah, I can see that. He’s an asshole.”
Lacey arcs an eyebrow at me. “I don’t understand you at all.”
I shrug. “That’s okay. I don’t get it either.”
The truth is, I can’t stop thinking about Stone. I can’t stay away from him. When he’s riled up like that, pissed off to hell because of something I did, I want him to jump my bones. Something about the way he gets when he’s furious just gets me going, and it makes me want to do it to him over and over again.
Then he can domeover and over again.
Fuck, I’m in trouble.
This has to end. I can’t have this…thing between us, no matter what it is. The rivalry isn’t going anywhere, so what will the next step be? When are we going to draw the line? He’s right that this is about our futures. I can’t afford to fuck up mine, even when he says I don’t have one, and I don’t give a damn about his. The only reason I’ve been playing this game with him is because I don’t want him to have control.
But the thing is, the more I do it, the more control he has. He has some kind of hold on me—I’m under his spell. I want to be with him, to know more about him. I want to touch him and kiss him. I want all kinds of things I shouldn’t be thinking about right now.
“I have to go,” I finally say.
Lacey looks dejected that I’m leaving now that we’re just starting to bond. But I’m not going to tell her any more about what’s going on. I don’t trust her—she’s a lot more like Stone than she realizes. She’ll do what it takes to get what she wants too.
They’re all like that around here.
I guess I am too.
It’s a dog eat dog world, right?
I head across campus toward Stone’s dorm. I need to talk to him. We need to put this thing to bed and not in the way my body still craves.
When I get to his dorm, music is already blaring loudly. It’s good to know he’s here.
I knock on the door, and when it opens, he has a bottle of bourbon in his hand, ready to pour a glass or just drink from the bottle. He likes to rely on something that will numb the pain, I’ve noticed.
