Page 39 of Beta Team-The Saviors: Part One

“It wasn’t too bad.”

“Did they behave?” he whispers, making me smile.

“I don’t think you can expect much from Tyler.”

Tyler leans forward, looking at me around Keon. “I’m not the one who told the whole school that Gavin couldn’t get her off.”

“You did what?” Keon splutters, looking at me in shock.

“I didn’t say he couldn’t. I said he didn’t,” I defend. “And he started it.”

“Good girl,” Keon laughs. Something about that coming from him in his deep voice makes my stomach flip.

I’m so fucked.

13

ARI

Jason hasn’t talked to me in three goddamn days. I messaged him after we got fuck all from the CIA agent, and he asked if I could tell him the truth. I told him I couldn’t, and he’s ignored everything since. Even went as far as kicking me out of High Flyer. I left because I didn’t want to cause a scene. But I have to see him.

Taking a deep breath, I knock on his apartment door. “Please, talk to me.”

“Go away, Ari!”

“I’ll stand out here all fucking night if I have to. Open the door.”

“Are you going to tell me what’s really going on?”

“It’s not that simple.”

“It is that simple. You’re hiding something.”I’m hiding a lot of shit.

I lean my forehead against the door, and somehow, I justknowhe’s standing on the other side. “I am. But telling you isn’t safe.”

Jason jerks the door open, and just seeing him takes my breath away. “What does that even mean?” I go to step inside,and he blocks my path. “No. Something has been going on for a while, and I ignored it because it wasn’t any of my fucking business. But the second we got involved, it became my business. Who was that guy the other night?”

A million thoughts are running through my head. If I don’t tell him something, he’ll shut me out of his life. I can’t handle that. As much as I just wanted this to be a fun fling, that’s not possible now that I’ve gotten a taste of him. “Will you let me in?”

“Are you going to be honest?”

“As honest as I can be. That’s all that I can do right now.”

I see the decisions play across his face, and then he steps to the side, letting me walk in. He shuts the door and leans against it. “Start talking.”

I collapse on the couch and run my fingers through my hair. “I can’t tell you everything.”

Jason walks over and sits in the chair in front of the couch. “You have to give me something here, Ari. You’re constantly getting called away, running from the bar like your ass is on fire, and you’re always looking over your shoulder. Are you in some kind of trouble?”

I laugh and sit back on the couch. “You could say that.”

“What is it?”

Axel is going to kick my ass.“That guy that was asking about the Saviors?” Jason nods. “He was asking about us. We are the Saviors.” That’s as far as I’m willing to go with the truth. He can’t know about my past before the army or who I really am.

“I don’t even know what that means.”

“That’s the point. We keep our identities hidden.”