Page 305 of Knox Academy Omnibus
I release his nipple and he motions with his head for us to walk while we talk.
“I had an order to rough them up a bit. Kalen is so damn vain that I cut his hair to hurt his feelings.”
I snort because he isn’t wrong. “An order from whom?”
“That is something I can’t even tell you right now.”
“Okay then, where have you been? Because you haven't been at school or answering my messages. Is it that girl? Are you in love?”
“Me...in love? I don’t think so, Robin. You turned me down, and now I’m destined for a life of misery.”
“Be serious.” I whack him in the chest and he laughs.
“I still don’t know who poisoned me that night. It’s too dangerous for me to be here in case anyone is tracking me.”
“So why are you here now?”
“Because someone keeps harping on about being a friend, and I was going to wait until class ended to talk to you.”
I shake my head at him. “You do realise there’s an invention where you can send a message.”
“Ha Ha. I figured I owed you a face to face after ditching you. I had something come up and couldn’t make it. Call it a bonding experience with your boyfriend.”
My head snaps to him and he grins at me.
“You’re not going to tell me why, are you?”
He shakes his head.
“Fine, but you know this means that you do actually like me.”
“Don’t go around telling people that. I’ll lose my credibility as a badass.”
I laugh. I wish he was like this around everyone. Baxter Branson is a big teddy bear on the inside.
“Are you going to tell me about Raven?”
He sent me those files on her and her family. It really wasn’t much to go on. Name, age, and the school she attends. Not a whole lot of information, which is suspicious if you ask me. She is beautiful though, and I can see danger in her, which is probably why he’s infatuated with her. He can deny it all he likes, but friends know these things.
“Nothing to tell… But if there was ever anything to tell, you’d be the first to know.”
“Good.” I smile. He’s learning.
We don’t get much further than the school buildings when Jasper, Frost, Sawyer, Kalen, Slate and Onyx all come barrellingtowards us. Onyx flies into Baxter, knocking him to the ground and I shout for him to stop.
Is Baxter smiling?!
Fucking hell.
I turn to the others.
“Make him stop. Baxter helped me! Monty sent me out here.”
Frost and Jasper run to where the guys are now throwing punches at each other.
“What the fuck were you thinking?” Onyx seethes, blood running down his lip.
I walk closer to him and poke him in the chest. His whole alpha anger bullshit doesn’t scare me.
