LOGIN“Huh?” Adam asked in a daze.I clutched my head, moving away from him.“Shit, shit, shit!” I cursed. “What’s wrong with you? Why on earth would you kiss me?”He frowned, looking hopelessly confused.“I thought you wanted it too.”“You’re going out with Annalise!” I yelled, pointing an accusing finger at him. “She’s on a crusade to make my life hell just because she’s afraid I’d break the two of you up, and you’re here, kissing on me? Do you want her to get a heart attack?”Adam looked annoyed.“Is that what this is about?” He asked, voice quiet. “You’re not bringing her up because you didn’t like it?”“I…” I trailed off and blinked at him.Heat crept up to my cheeks, and I had a hard time meeting his eyes. Any sane person would tell him that it was inappropriate, that nothing was going on between us, and that this was very, very ill-advised. I was under explicit instructions not to interfere with Annalise’s relationship with him.But I’ve never been that good at following the rules.A
For a moment, I couldn’t move.It had been happening all these years, but no one cared enough to notice. Even my friends, who had sensed something was not right, didn’t question me further when I told them to back away.No one had certainly clocked that I was hurt.There’s a raw sort of anger in Adam’s eyes. His jaw was set so hard that it had to hurt, and his fingers, which were bunched around the fabric of my shirt, were shivering. His attention was solely focused on the mosaic of bruises littering my left flank.My mind flashed to the last time we’d been like this, him cornering me against a wall, with his hand on my body. My heart raced in my chest, and my throat felt dry.“Revon, you have to tell me,” Adam insisted, voice rough. “This looks bad. Who did this? Was it AJ and Jaice? I told those idiots to leave you alone! What happened?”That managed to snap me back to the present, and I shoved him away from me, righting my clothes. Panic rushed through me. I needed to get away from
Revon was late.We agreed to have a tutoring session every Wednesday and Thursday after school because those were the two free intervals in my schedule. After the session yesterday, I’d been strangely giddy, pretty much looking forward to the bell that signified the end of the school day.I couldn’t wait to see him.I was perfectly aware that this was getting absurd. We’d only known each other for less than a week, but my thoughts were constantly filled with him. Every moment since the rut, he was in my dreams.And they weren’t necessarily innocent dreams.Being an Alpha sucked in the way that we were always so driven by our pheromones. The scents of everyone intensified, every emotion was ten times harder to process, and we tended to go to extremes for the smallest things.My parents had even gotten me an ‘Alpha tutor’ to help with my ‘instincts’. At first, I was offended, but I realized that I wanted to fight everyone in the room just because they cracked a joke about me.That's whe
“What’s the deal with you and the Kennedy boy?” My mom asked me as soon as I stepped into the threshold.Wait, how did she know anything about us this fast? I just finished my first tutoring session.Then again, she had spies all over the place, so it shouldn’t have been a surprise. Everyone around town knew who Adam was, too.“Well, good evening to you too, mom. How are you doing?”“Cut it out,” Mom chided. “What’s going on? He came looking for you the last day as well, wanting to drop off an assignment.”“He’s a friend,” I replied, trying to move away from the conversation.“I thought your friends were all scholarship kids, and Annalise.”Hearing that name nearly makes me stumble over my legs.“Not anymore.”“How curious. Why would someone like Adam Kennedy suddenly befriend you?” Mom asked, more like she was asking a rhetorical question. She didn’t even look at me, just her own nails.I froze.“Why can’t someone like him be friends with someone like me?”“Revon, I went to Sawhill P
If Miss. Park hadn’t been there, I’d have thrown my head back and groaned.“Of course, Adam, please come in!” Miss. Park smiled as her favorite student, who was none other than Adam Kennedy, walked into the classroom. “I hope I can borrow some time from your timetable for this.”“Honestly, I’d do anything for the extra-credit,” Adam replied. “And this must be the guy you mentioned-oh, hey.”He stopped moving as soon as he saw me, and his eyes widened a little.“Yep,” I sighed. “It’s me.”Miss. Park looked behind us. “You two friends?”“We’ve been acquainted, yes,” Adam replied with a pleasant smile. “Revon, hi.”Again, with rolling his ‘r’s. It was embarrassing enough that I couldn’t help the blush that stained my cheeks.“Hello, Adam.”For a moment, we just stared at each other. He didn’t look disheveled at all, although the school day had already ended. Still looked as preppy and pristine as he did this morning, except his hair somehow felt…poofy.I wondered how it would feel in bet
“Annalise,” I exclaimed. “What are you doing?”“Do not test my patience right now, Revon,” Annalise snapped, giving me crazy eyes. “Why was Adam Kennedy defending you?!”Even in the darkened corridor, I could clearly see that she was a mess. Annalise always spent a ridiculous amount of time on her image, making sure that she looked perfect before stepping out of her bedroom every morning. I knew this because I’d seen her do her meticulous make-up routine multiple times.But that morning, she looked like she hadn’t slept for a day. Not even heavy makeup could hide the dark bags under her eyes, and her eyes were red-rimmed, as if she’d been up all night or crying. Her lips were scabbed as if she’d been biting them, and her clothes were rumpled, as if she hadn’t bothered to put them on with care.A very bad feeling settled in my bones.“I have no idea, okay, I’m as baffled as you are,” I answered, putting my hands up around her because she was holding onto my jacket lapels. “I literally
“You went and tattled to Adam on us, didn’t you?”I hadn’t even stepped through the doors of Sawhill Prep when Jaice and AJ lumbered over to confront me.I let out a sigh.“Guy, I just came back from burying my Great-Grandma, can you give me a break?”My Great-Grandma was still alive somewhere in W
If it had been even one degree too late, a rubber bullet would’ve taken out Adam’s eye.For a moment, we just stared at each other in horrified silence. “Oh,” Adam breathed. “That was scary.”“Are you insane?!” I screamed, clutching my rifle to my chest. “Why on earth would you do that?!”Adam red
If there was anything to be said about my father, it was that he was efficient to a fault.As soon as I called him to tell him about my dilemma, he called the front office at Sawhill Prep, made up a very valid-sounding excuse for his son to be let out of school early, and sent one of our chauffeurs
We both froze.“What’s going on?” Adam mouthed. “Is that Jaice?”“His bag’s here,” AJ’s voice came, followed by a thunk which meant he’d kicked my bag. Then, a chuckle. “And a very saucy shirt.”The others snickered.“He has got to be in one of these stalls,” Jaice drawled, “cowering like an Omega







