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“I don’t know. I’ve got a lot of other options right now. My dance card is literally full.”

“Who? And they won’t be able to dance if I break their legs,” I tell her.

“Now who’s the crazy one?” Aurora laughs. “Come on, I need to meet my cousin so I can borrow a uniform from her.”

I don’t miss how she doesn’t agree to my offer, but I’m not going to push it either. I’ll just make sure every guy within reaching distance knows not to fucking touch her.

True to her word, Aurora dropped me off just outside the city limits and told me to call an Uber. I get it. We shouldn’t be seen together. At least not until we figure out what the fuck we are.

Now, though, as I watch her from across the hall, I want nothing more than to walk over and make my fucking claim public knowledge.

“You know you’re being way too obvious,” Kenny says, stopping in front of me and blocking my view.

“You know, I can’t seem to find a fuck to give,” I tell him.

“You will when your father finds out about this little double life you’re leading.”

I shrug. I don’t fucking care what my family thinks about me seeing Aurora. I don’t care what anyone thinks. She’s the first girl who’s managed to actually keep my interest for longer than an hour. She’s literal fire, and I want to douse her in gasoline and see how bright she can burn. I didn’t tell her how her craziness turns me on. When she told me what she did to Melissa, I wasn’t appalled like I should have been. I was fucking horny.

Maybe we’re both insane. Or we’re the normal ones and everyone else around us is…

Nope, that doesn’t work.We’re insane.And what we are doing is insanely dangerous for both of us.

I won’t let her get caught, though. I know my family, and I know there are no limits to what they’d do to her if they found out she was sleeping with me. Just to prove a point that they could too. It wouldn’t even have anything to do with her last name.

“You got something to say, O’Malley?” Aurora’s cousin calls out to me.

I look around the now silent hall. “To you? No,” I answer him. Kenny moves to stand by my side.

“Then why the fuck are you staring?” Orlando goads.

I blink and force my lips into a smirk. “Isn’t that what people do at zoos? Stare at all the animals on display? My bad, I was waiting for you monkeys to start performing tricks,” I tell him.

Out of nowhere, something shiny and silver flies right past the side of my face. I turn and see the object on the floor before bending down to pick it up.

“Did you just throw a fucking ninja star at my head?” I ask Aurora.

“Next time, it’ll hit your face. That was a warning. Consider yourself lucky, O’Malley. I don’t usually give warnings,” she says, walking up to me. She smiles while plucking the star from my fingers, and then stomps off. “Don’t ever talk to my cousin like that again.”

“Didn’t realize the boys in your family needed the girls sticking up for them, princess,” I call out after her.

Aurora spins back around, and before I know it, that same throwing star is stabbed through my left arm. “I told you—one warning. You should have kept your pretty little mouth shut.”

“You think my mouth is pretty, princess?” I ask while silently cursing at the pain traveling up my arm. This is going to need fucking stitches.

With a shake of her head, Aurora continues storming off in the opposite direction. Her two cousins, Dante and Orlando, just stare at me before following her.

“That’s what you’re sleeping with? I’d be keeping one eye open if I were you,” Kenny mutters.

“She’s harmless.”

“Tell that to the thing sticking out of your arm.” He gestures in my direction before ripping the star out of my skin.

“Ow, fuck,” I hiss.

“Yeah, that needs stitching up,” Kenny tells me.

My phone pings with an incoming message. I pull it out of my pocket and glance at the screen.