“Well, we can-”
A shadow loomed over the right side of my locker, shutting Alex up. I shut the door to see Talon Draven standing right next to me, and like I said earlier, I was not in the mood. It’s amazing what lack of sleep does to a person. “I’m not in the mood, Talon,” I growled and ignored Alex’s gasp behind me.
His left shoulder was leaning up against the lockers, a book hanging from his right hand by his thigh, and he looked damn good. “You say that like I give a fuck, White,” he replied, not at all concerned that Alexandria could hear our exchange.
I stared up at those unrealistic blue eyes of his and I couldn’t believe how much I wanted to stab them out of his head. “Quit calling me that,” I spat. “My name is Kenzlee.”
He guffawed, “Oh, baby, believe me, I know your name.”
This jerk. “Don’t call me baby, either,” I hissed. “I amnotyour baby.”
One step was all it took to have Talon looming over me, shrinking me. “That’s where you’re wrong, White,” he said, his voice a deep rumble of male need. “You are very much whatever I say you are to me.”
My eyes widened and my mouth dropped open.Who in the hell says crap like that?“Are you insane?” I screeched. “You can’t just…that’s not how things work!”
Alex’s voice was faint but clear behind me. “Sweet Baby Jesus.”
And then he said something that took me to the edge of a nervous breakdown. And the fact that he said it in front of Alexandria really jacked me up. “Look, White,” he started, “I spent all night thinking of all the ways I was going to stay away from you, yet, here I am, first thing in the morning, seeking you out.”
“Tal-”
He kept talking right on over me. “Well, guess what? I’m not leaving you alone,” he announced. “I’m not going toeverfucking leave you alone, and the sooner you accept that, the better off you’ll be.”
My head shook back and forth in denial as if the police were accusing me of a double murder. “You can’t do that,” I pointed out.
“Yeah?” he barked. “And who’s going to stop me? You going to tell a teacher? Report me to the police?” His hand latched onto the back of my neck again. “How exactly are you going to stop me?”
Those were all very good questions, but I couldn’t form a single thought with his hand wrapped around my neck again. Talon’s touch was like a current short-circuiting my intelligence. It was frying my ability to think; to make decisions.
The first warning bell rang snapping me out of my stupor. I looked up at this beautiful boy and said the only thing I could think of. “I…I need to get to class,” I stuttered, that confident, combative girl long gone.
Talon’s eyes narrowed, and that stabby feeling morphed into wanting to attack him with my tongue. “I’m only going to say once, Kenzlee,” he whispered. “Stay the fuck away from Jason Fuller.” Then he corrected himself. “As a matter of fact, stay away from all guys who aren’t me, Lars, or Hunter. Got that?”
And licking him morphed back into stabby time.
My polite upbringing was being tested to its limits. “I need to get to class, Talon,” I said, instead of telling him to go eat a dick. Because I really, really wanted to tell him to go eat a dick. However, I wasn’t so wrapped up in Talon, I didn’t notice the crowd gathering around us.
He gave my neck a tight, little squeeze before saying, “I’ll let you go this time, Kenzlee. But I’ll see you in fourth.” Then he walked past me as if he hadn’t just claimed me in front of everyone.
“Holy shit hell damn,” Alex rambled. “What in the hell was that, Kenzlee?”
I turned and looked at my cousin. “Hell, if I know,” I admitted. “I…I think he’s just…bored, maybe.”
Alex’s eyes almost bugged out of her pretty head. “Talon Draven might be a lot of things, but I doubt bored is one of them, Kenz,” she argued. “How did all of this happen?”
I didn’t want to have this conversation with an audience, so I said, “Look, we need to get to class. But I promise to tell you everything tonight at home, okay?”
“This is big, Kenzlee,” she gushed. “Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber getting back together, big.”
I cocked my head. I wasn’t a Justin Bieber fan, but no one could escape the online tabloids these days. “Isn’t he married?”
Alexandria rolled her eyes. “Yes,” she confirmed. “That’s why it would be big news if he got back together with Selena.”
Well, alrighty, then.
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Talon~
