Page 64 of The Revenge You Seek

"I know I look like hell, you don't need to stare."

"You're hot and you know it."

"You think?"

"You know I do, and the majority of girls, and a good portion of guys at MKU." A smile twitches at his lips. "Don't let it go to your head though."

"I guess Dad's genes we're good for something, eh?"

"Your looks and your ball skills. Hell yeah."

"Let's be honest, no one wants any of his other… qualities."

"Oh I don't know, Luca got some of his ego."

Leon barks a laugh as he turns toward my dorm. "That he did, Cupcake. You want me to walk you up?"

I glance around. It's stupid, I know he's not here waiting for me but still my skin prickles as I think about it being a possibility.

"Nah, you get back and enjoy those pancakes."

"Okay. You know where I am."

I nod at him and climb from the car. I love them both dearly but I am more than ready to stand under the hottest shower I can bear and crawl into my own bed for a few hours to sleep off the rest of this hangover.

Stupidly, I opt for the stairs instead of the elevator, thinking that the exercise might wake me up a little. Wrong. My thighs burn by the time I hit our floor. It's just a reminder of last night's mistake.

I'm still building up a wall to keep the memories out when I walk into our dorm to be met with a face I really don't need to see.

"Morning, Miss Scarlett. Nice little walk of shame on your first weekend at MKU," Brax announces from somewhere in the room but it's not him I'm focused on.

"Ellis?" His name falls from my lips before I've even realized I've said it.

"Hey, Let. How's it going?"

His eyes run down the length of me that's clad in Luca's clothes and I want the ground to swallow me up.

It's no secret that the Harris brothers have enrolled here. It's a fact that I'm sure every pill-popping, powder-snorting, acid-tripping student loves.

When we were kids, Victor Harris's reach didn't span out of Harrow Creek, but as his greed and need for power has grown and so has his patch.

He took over Rosewood while we were seniors, and now he's after Maddison. I get it, I guess. He's a businessman. If you can call a gangster one of those.

All I know is that he's terrifying, and he's single-handedly ruining the kids of Harrow Creek by convincing them that the best way to survive that hell hole is to become one of his boys.

Bullshit. All of it. And just another reason why I was so glad we left when we did.

Zayn was always a bright boy, and I'd have hated to see him fall into that trap.

The same one that we all know Kane and Kyle fell into, if Kyle's recent stint in juvie was anything to go by.

My eyes shift from Ellis to Micah who's sitting beside him on the couch, both of them with computers on their laps and looking equally as nerdy. It's almost endearing, or it would be if I didn't know that Ellis is as terrifying as his brothers, possibly more so because he's so fucking intelligent.

"It's g-good. You?"

"Can't complain. I was made for college. You know that."

"You two know each other?" Micah asks, looking between the two of us.