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"The whole point"

Madoc nodded "Oh…so that’s the plan"

Well, what the hell did he think I was doing? Actually dating KC?

Enough "Thanks again for backing ed the subject and turned to cli?" he started, and I stopped "With Tate? Why do we do it? I know I’ve asked before, but you don’t tell et it"

Jesus Christ

I turned back around to face hi about this

He’d asked lots of tiirl it was for a different reason

I liked playing ga her

I never had an answer that satisfiedInit out loud sounded crazy

But while Madoc was curious, he was also ga with Tate over the years, he’d always stepped up At o where he threw her keys into the pool, and she’d broken his nose

All his idea

My first party this year when she screamed, "Cops?" Did I tell him to put his hands on her?

I narrowed o above and beyond Youyou, so why do you care?"

He s me off "This isn’t about irl She caht like she was ready to back us up She’s hot, athletic, tough, and she can handle a gun What’s not to like?"

Every muscle in my shoulders and ar away fro hated that he drooled over her

I ca on the tile al in my veins, and bore down at my best friend

"Stay away fro to calm me down "Hey, man, no worries She broke my nose and kicked me in the balls I think that ship’s sailed" He narrowed his eyes and looked confused "But if you don’t want her, why can’t anyone else have a shot?"

Why, indeed?

The shit I’d pulled on Tate over the years could be chalked up to hate, anger, need for control

But not letting other guys near her? That wasn’t a ga okay with anyone else’s o

"I’ in her way anyuy in school, she can have a ball I’ his fat rin "Because word is she went out with Ben Jaot s-sleeved black ther me, and for the first tioddaain just to breathe

"That’s fine," I clipped out, barely unscrewing my jaws to speak "I couldn’t care less They can all have her"

But I never, for a single second, ain I could see the lunch at the picnic tables outside, and both were talking intensely, Tate looking away, shaking her head, and KC looking apologetic

While I told myself that it would be worth it when it was done, I still felt like shit KC wasn’t telling Tate about using et back at her boyfriend If she did, they probably wouldn’t be fighting Not that Tate would be okay with it, but she probably wouldn’t be barely eating her lunch and scowling sothe school she had genital warts or lice had beento steal her best friend was cruel It would really hurt her

Exactly what I wanted, I told ht myself mesmerized by her every move The methodical way she’d sharpen her precious pencils, the way her hair fell over her shoulder when she’d lean down to grab so her body bend as she’d sit down or get up Every bit of skin, every s stor doards from my stomach to my dick, and I almost wished she was back in France

At least I could hate her and not want to fk her every second

Madoc called it hate-fucking He told me once that he’d never loved anyone, but he’d had sex with someone he really hated once, and it was the best he’d ever had

Passion, punisherous htened my shoulders as I walked into my last class of the day--the class I shared with Tate

"Leave"

I heard Tate’s voice as soon as I walked in the door, and I snappedher space

"That’s your last warning," she continued, looking angry and eruht "You’re not worth it"

And I was on his fking ass "Sit down, Nate"

He spun around, eyebrows raised and looking surprised as we stood in between the rows of desks that were quickly filling up with students

"Hey, man, no offense" He held up his hands "If you’re not done with her…"

My aruy out of here by his balls

If I’ inside of htened

What the hell?

I wanted her to hurt I didn’t want her to hurt

I hated her I loved her

I wanted to violate her body in a hundred different ways I wanted to keep her safe

There was no li was for certain

She wasn’t trash