Page 28 of Dark Little Game

My thoughts drift as I fall in and out of sleep again, but I keep seeing the image of his eyes in my mind. Blue-grey beautiful eyes.

I shouldn’t have kissed you.

Shouldn’t have ever gotten close.

Just fucking leave this place, and leave me alone.

But as I sleep, my dreams don’t become nightmares like I expect them to.

I dream of Hunter at the edge of my bed, but for some reason, I’m not afraid.

I dream of his lips against my skin.

They’re soft, and so warm, just like they were at the Stone and Flame party. He kisses me gently, in the same spot on my neck where the dart took me out.

Or is this real, and I’m just too sedated to know it?

His lips feel so good.

Shamefully good.

“Don’t stop,” I murmur, and he comes back in. It’s like he’s trying to kiss away the remnant of the drug on my skin.

“I’ll find out who did this. I will end them,” I hear him murmur, and I know I have to be dreaming because for the first time in my life, I feel a strong, unwavering emotion that I’ve never felt toward Hunter Knox.

I trust him.

And even somewhere in that surreal state, I know how dangerous that is.

6

Hunter

Rayne makes it way too easy to follow him around campus.

If someone had put a dart in my neck, I would change up my routines.

Take different pathways each day.

I’d go to new places, not leading them along my usual trail.

Rayne doesn’t seem to change anything from day to day in the following week.

It’s been seven days since the night of the incident, and no other attacks have happened. Classes began this week, and I’ve been able to map out Rayne’s schedule pretty easily: he has two classes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and three classes on Tuesday and Thursday.

He goes to the gym daily, and goes for a run around campus most days.

He doesn’t usually go to the big campus dining hall, the Colossus. He prefers the Kettle, usually opting to go there for lunch.

He’s also constantly with my brother.

Fuckingconstantly.

Some things don’t change, I guess.

And when I watch the way Weston and Rayne parade themselves around this campus like it really is their kingdom, it makes my skin crawl.

Today is the first day that Rayne finally heads to the gym alone.