"Sorry," she whispers to Leo.
He shrugs with a promise. "I'll see you later."
Making sure the passenger side door is closed behind her, I waste no time in picking up that mother fucker by his collar then punching him three times in the face.
I throw him on the ground like a rag doll. His nose looks broken in two places, and his lip is split wide open, but I’m not done. To add insult to injury I spit in his face. "If you come within a hundred feet of my girlfriend again, the next time you open your eyes you'll be in the hospital where you'll be eating your food through a straw."
He nods slowly. "Fuck you."
"No thanks."
Taking my phone out of my pocket, I dial Gunner. He picks up on the second ring. "What?"
"I fucked, Presley Kate." I’m not known for my subtlety.
His stunned silence says it all. "I'm done with waiting, Gunner, either you're all in or you're not, but she's mine. You'll have to make the decision for yourself if she's yours."
"Bring her home."
"Gladly." I reply back.
TWENTY-TWO
You Have No Idea
Everything I've known up until this moment has been a lie, and I never want to go back to the way it was.
-Presley Kate
The rideto what I'm assuming is my apartment is eerily quiet. "Are we still going to the party?" I know the answer, but I ask anyway to fill the void.
I'm not ready for him to take me back home yet. I want to ask him a million questions, but his tight grip on the steering wheel reminds me that he's a category five hurricane ready to rip up the coast.
He's still pissed about Leo, I can hardly say I blame him. Does Gunner know anything about what happened tonight? It's on the tip of my tongue to ask him but I'm not a fool. He'd only ignore me again.
Gunner isn't going to be happy about me going behind theirback either, but what will Daddy Dearest think when he finds out about me and Kai? Will he be mad? Or will he finally man up?
My head almost does a 360 when we drive past my street. I knew we weren't going to the party anymore, but I'd assumed he would just take me home, and that hopefully Gunner would meet us there. "You're not taking me home?"
"Yes, I am." He replies.
"I'm not moving back to Douglas, Kai." This is beyond frustrating.
He has slipped and bumped his head if he thinks just because we had amazing sex he can dictate my life now. Nobody's dick is that good. Although, I'd like another round just to test out that theory.
"Fuck that, Pres, I don't want to be that far away from you. That's not your home anymore, but neither is your dorm."
My heart swells at his small declaration, instead of saying something embarrassing, I laugh. Which is just as embarrassing. "My name on the lease that I pay every month proves that is a lie."
Placing his hand on my upper thigh he smiles. "Yeah, well, Gunner just bought you out of your lease tonight."
"What?" They are stupid as hell if they think I'm moving to another academy. PHU is divided into three separate ones, and I’m very happy with the one I’m in. "I'm not changing academy's, Kai."
He rolls his eyes. "Yeah, no shit. You're moving in with us."
"With us? You're leaving the frat house? Kai, we've only had sex one time." What even is this?
He gives me a look. "Yeah, I stay with you or Gunner most nights anyway. Basically, if you're there, I'm going to be there."
