Page 404 of Knox Academy Omnibus
I throw my head back and laugh. “You could persuade meupto loving you, but I love you all the same.”
“It’s possible today you could love me the most,” he whispers against my neck, the contact sending goosebumps down my arms.
“It’s very possible,” I whisper back.
“What the fuck?!” Adrianne snaps as she walks into the room. “Why am I always walking in on people getting freaky? I need to get some damn action.”
I laugh and pull away from Slate.
“Cap is single.”
Her face screws up at the thought. I swear I saw them have a moment before.
“You think?” she asks after thinking it over. I nod.
“That might just be useful information, since Baxter wasn’t interested.”
“You hit up Branson?” Slate asks, astonished. I smirk and he looks between us both waiting for an answer.
“Partly for my own amusement, because he pretty much hates everyone except Amelie…and possibly Elsie. If he had said yes then bonus, he is hot in an ‘I’ll try anything once kind of way’. He comes across like he would be freaky in ways that you could only handle once.”
“That was more than I needed to know. I have to go and sort out some things for the showcase, you two go ahead and get some lunch.”
We all exit the room and Slate rushes off. Cap steps away from the wall and walks behind us. Adrianne keeps turning back to look at him.
“Stop,” I whisper. “You’ll give him a complex.”
“I will not! I’m just deciding what kind of hot he is.”
“What do you mean? That makes no sense.”
“It does so. Like, Baxter is serial killer hot, Sawyer is I wanna fuck my teacher hot,” she laughs and I slap her arm. “Even your dad is old dude hot.”
I slam my hand over her mouth so that her words are muffled. She cackles like a witch beneath my palm.
“You know I can hear you,” Cap states, which makes her laugh even harder.
“Sorry, Adrianne needs to get laid.” This time it’s her that tries to shush me.
“If Adrianne would like to go out with me for dinner, we might be able to work something out…but be warned. I don’t fuck on first dates.”
Adrianne loops our arms and walks faster, forcing me to keep up. She does this the entire way to the cafeteria where Onyx, Kalen and Elsie are already waiting. The other new recruits, Kathryn and Mackenzie, are sitting at a new table. They’ve made friends with a few other girls here, which I’m glad about. But I think Onyx’s sparkling personality made them feel uncomfortable, which I’m less pleased about.
“Why does Adrianne look constipated?” Kalen asks as we take our seats. Jasper isn’t here today, so Adrianne is supposed to get me my lunch. Pretty sure I will go hungry before she actually does it without being asked; she really is crap at her job. I know I could get it myself, but it’s the principle.
“She’s horny. Desperately so because she even propositioned Baxter. Times are bad.”
Kalen laughs and even Onyx smirks.
“Oh my god, I could totally set you—” Elsie doesn’t get to finish her sentence before Adrianne is shutting her down.
“Nope.”
“But why not?”
“Because your taste in men is questionable,” Kalen offers. “Have you seen his nipples?”
“There is nothing wrong with his nipples!” Elsie cries, trying to defend Jasper.
