Page 171 of Boys Who Taint

If he won’t give me the file, then I’ll go fucking look for it myself.

Grey stands beneath the steps, leering up at me. “Do whatever you want, Levi. It won’t help you. Nothing will. Your downfall was my victory, and the prize … is all mine.”

Fuck him and that arrogant fucking horse he rode in on.

I burst into his room, deranged, completely out of my mind from intoxication and fury. Roaring out loud, I rip open every neatly packed closet, every pristine drawer, and every stacked box, throwing it all out on the floor. I check every nook and cranny but his laptop is nowhere to be found.

Tears well up in my eyes.

He’s got me.

He’s got me on a fucking noose and there’s not a thing I can do about it.

Not a single thing …

My jaw tenses, and I fall to my knees and slam the floor while screaming, “FUCK!”

Aspen

Two dayslater

I haven’t talkedwith Grey in what feels like ages. He hasn’t attempted to make contact and neither have I. Maybe he’s respecting my need for silence. Or maybe he’s afraid he’s going to lose me because of all the lies.

Something about the way he acted last night just doesn’t feel right. And my mind isn’t really ready to come to terms with what I did, so I have no emotional room to think about it either. I’m still stuck in that forest, haunted by the vision of a turned-on Grey while I was being plowed through on both ends by his enemies. But the worst part is that my pussy still throbs when it crosses my mind.

Sighing, I close my book. I can’t even focus properly on my late-night study, that’s how far they’ve gotten under my skin. It doesn’t help that their dicks were absolutely unholy and so damn …good at it.

Dammit.

I put my stuff into my bag and get up, but the second I attempt to exit the library, a voice in the hallway beyond makes me pause.

Grey.

I peer sideways to confirm and my eyes widen.

He’s leaning against the library walls, talking about some kind of deal on a new phone he bought. “No. You bring me one of them or I’m coming there to fuck up the entire place.”

My heart rate shoots up.

Fuck up what place?

“You think I care? I paid. The end. Now bring me the guy. You’ve got twenty minutes.”

Paid for what guy? What’s going to happen?

He ends the call and tucks his phone back into his pocket, then waltzes off.

I have to follow him.

I wait until he’s gone before I follow suit. He exits the building and walks to the parking lot, while I stay at an appropriate distance. He gets in his car, and there’s another girl leaving the parking lot just now, so I jump into my car and wait until she exits then follow along so there’s distance between our cars and Grey won’t notice it’s me.

Lately, something about him has felt … off.

Like a part of him has chipped away unnoticed. The boyfriend I had isn’t the boyfriend I have now, and I want to know if my senses are right. Even though I know it’s wrong to stalk, he kept secrets from me too, and I need to know if there’s more.

I trail behind him slowly, making sure it’s inconspicuous as we head down the mountain and into Crescent Vale City. But the longer we drive, the more eerie it gets, and my hairs visibly rise when we reach the area that’s controlled by the Bonesmen Brotherhood.

Could Levi have been right all along?