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I pushed against his chest, but he ain and when he didn’t budge I bit down Instantly he reeled back, holding his hand against his bloodied bottoht I felt about you Don’t make aawhen you went after Nikki You couldn’t just let her go I told you a hundred tietyou doith her You put her above your fa away You are the one who ruined us that night Notus! So fuck you, Ray! You broke my heart when you left You smashed it to pieces when you came back And I don’t knoho you think you are, but you aren’t the Ray I knew And this person I see before ht now," Tanner said He turned and stormed off into the darkness

I opened my mouth to call after him but I didn’t knohat else I could say He was hurt and I’d done the hurting I’d nothing but make one stupid decision after another since I’d been there It was stupid of er But that didn’t give hiht to treat ht or traded…or h that was exactly what I was

Chapter Nineteen

Doe

I closed the door to ainst it Devastated doesn’t begin to cover how I felt King was dead and I’d lost h to think that I could use a et what I so desperately wanted

A fa and Preppy

I let out a frustrated screa on the door until I was all out of fight I rubbed my lips to erase the taste of Tanner until they felt raw

"Take your fucking clothes off," a deep voice growled

Awareness washed over asped and turned my tear stained face fro it and I would still know exactly who the voice belonged to

King e away froed off "You know I don’t like to repeat myself, but for you, I’ll do it just this once, Pup" He stopped in front of er "Take your fucking clothes off"

"You’re alive," I whisper asthis?

"You’re about to find out how alive I really am" He stalked toward me "You and I comot to say So instead of the question-and-answer bullshit that will get us a fuck of a lot of nowhere, so we’re going to do this in a way I already knoorks"

"I thought you were dead" My chest heaved with fear and desire My skin prickled,when that kid had his tongue down your fucking throat?" King reached for"Is your grief the reason why you’re wearing this?"

I ripped ainst his chest My intention was to push hio

I didn’t want to

I fisted his shirt inreplaced by ht you were dead," I repeated

He spoke into ainst my scalp "Oh, Pup I’m pretty sure even death couldn’t keep arettes and wind I’d missed the familiarity of his sht I would see you again I went to the MC Bear’s dad is the one who toldshook his head slowly from side to side "He’ll be dealt with" He narrowed his eyes "As will you," he said so low and deep I felt his words to my very core

"What?"

"Did you really think it would be that easy to get rid of me? For fuck’s sake I remember what it feels like to be inside you You think I can just forget that? You think I haven’t been trying for weeks to convince myself that it’s justwouldhurt, right now Right here" King pounded on his chest with a closed fist "I soet it all, but I can’t I won’t Because I don’t want to ever want to forget you And I welcome this pain because it reminds me that you were real" I bit my lip so hard I could taste the copper in my mouth