Page 19 of The Revenge You Seek

I can't have taken more than ten steps before a tingle of awareness races down my spine.

He's watching me.

As discreetly as I can, I look around the room trying to find him, but I'm unsuccessful. All I find are eager students listening to whatever is being said at the front of the class.

My blood is still whooshing in my ears long after I sit down and get my books out. I try my best to focus and get my head around what this semester has in store for me in this class but all I can see are his blue eyes as he stared at me in the hallway.

He looked exactly as he did that night. Like he left and wasn't affected by what happened between us.

Why should he? It's not like we saw each other or even spoke after that night.

The second he heard the sirens in the distance, he bolted, leaving me there in the dark forest, damn near glued into that muddy puddle he'd fucked me in.

I was a mess. If only I knew that it was a sign of what was to come, it might not have felt so bad.

Hindsight is a great thing because if I had known what was going down in Skye's house then I might have swallowed down my pride and walked back inside to find my sister.

But I didn't. I fixed my dress the best I could, got in my car, and made my way home, confident that Harley would be safe with Kyle and the others. She doesn't need babying, we're all Harrow Creek kids and we know how to look after ourselves.

But if I had known…

I try to swallow down the messy ball of emotion that clogs my throat.

I have so many regrets from that night. There are so many things that shouldn't have happened and what went down between Kane and me was only one of them.

Harley ended up in the hospital being questioned by police and Kyle ended up in juvie.

No doubt he blames all of that on me along with the already very long line of crimes he thinks I'm guilty of.

I let out a shaky sigh as images from my past play out in my head like a freaking movie.

It's two hours later when our professor brings the class to a close after explaining our first assignment but I haven’t heard a word of it. I breathe a small sigh of relief when he tells us that notes will be online shortly because I have no clue as to what's happened this morning.

Everyone around me begins packing up their things and making their way toward the exit but I find myself frozen to the spot.

Still, my skin prickles with awareness telling me that he's still here.

Why can't he just leave with everyone else, forget I exist and continue on with his life.

Out of nowhere West and Brax's comment from this morning hits me.

"New guy turned up and caused havoc."

Holy shit, Luca.

He hates Kane almost as much as I do. Something I never discouraged during my time in Rosewood, although I never confessed to the feeling being mutual. I made a point of being busy every time the Bears and the Harriers had a game and I never once mentioned my connection to him aside from us being at school together. Neither of them ever asked either, not that I'd have told them the truth if they had. I'd run away from my high school bully and that was the end of it. I was just glad that the Bears ruined the Harriers every time they played. It made everything feel a little better in my head.

But now… now he's here and if he's on the team.

Fuck.

This is not good.

No.

This is really, really fucking bad.

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