LOGINChapter 53LilyI did not go to my room.I walked down the stairs with Izzy’s big grey hoodie hanging past my thighs and my shorts sitting crooked on my hips. My skin was still buzzing, and my cheek still hurt where she had slapped me. I touched it lightly and smiled. It was a good kind of pain. Sharp and clear. It reminded me that I had finally gotten under her skin.She could act angry all she wanted, but I knew what I had seen upstairs. She had tried to push me away, yet she had still held onto me. She had screamed at me, but she had also been shaken by what happened between us. She could tell herself that she hated me, but I knew I had left something behind in her mind that she could not simply erase.I walked into the kitchen, the cold floor pressing against my bare feet.The house was too quiet. It was the kind of silence that made me uncomfortable because it gave people too much time to think. I opened the fridge, grabbed a bottle of water, and drank half of it before wiping my
Chapter 52 RivenI watched her shove Lily off.Not a little push. Not the kind of thing where she was trying to make a point without actually doing anything. She put both hands on Lily's shoulders and threw her sideways and Lily hit the mattress with a sound that was more surprise than pain."Get off me."Lily caught herself on one elbow and stared at Izzy like she had just grown a second head. Her hair was still wet and tangled from where Izzy had been pulling it and there was a red mark on her cheek from the slap and she looked insane. Completely insane. Sitting there naked on the bed with her mouth still wet and her whole body still angled toward Izzy like she was not done yet."What the hell," Lily said."No." Izzy was already standing up. I do not know when she decided to stand up. She was just suddenly on her feet with her shirt still pushed up and my come drying on her thigh and her whole body shaking. "No. This is done. Get out.""Izzy.""I said get out."I did not move from
Chapter 51 Izzy Lily did not stay in the doorway.She looked at Riven’s open pants. She looked at my hand, still stupidly half raised like I had forgotten what a hand was for. She looked at my face. Then she stepped inside and shut the door behind her with her heel.“Can I join you,” she said.It was not even a question the way a normal person asks a question. She said it like she already knew the answer and she was only checking if we were going to pretend otherwise.“Lily,” I said. “Get out.”“No.”Riven had not moved from the door. He was still hard. He had not even tried to put himself away. He looked at her the way he had looked at me two minutes ago, like he was waiting to see which one of us would break first.Lily pulled her shirt over her head and dropped it on the floor.“Lily, stop.”She pushed her shorts down next. No bra. No underwear. She stood there like that was a normal thing to do in someone else’s room after you just walked in on them.“Suck it,” she said.I stare
Chapter 50 Izzy Riven's mouth curved. Not quite a smile. Something harder than that. Something that said he knew exactly what I'd just decided and he was already planning what to do with it. "Good girl," he said again. "Shut up." "Make me." Lily's footsteps started again. Moving away from the stairs now. Toward the kitchen. She was giving up. She was going to make coffee and sit at the table and wait for us to come down and have no idea that we were both up here doing something that would change everything. "Where do you think she is right now?" Riven asked. His voice was still low but it had an edge to it now. "In her head. What do you think she's thinking?" "I don't know." "I do." He shifted his hips again and watched my face as I reacted. "She's thinking about last night. She's thinking about what she did to you and how you looked after and how you barely said a word this morning. She's wondering if she went too far. Or not far enough. She's sitting at that table right now
Chapter 49Izzy Riven didn't stop.His hand stayed over mine, pressing my palm flat against the hard length of him through his pants, and he didn't look away from my face for even a second. I could feel the heat of him through the fabric, the twitch of something underneath my fingers that made my stomach do a slow, sick flip. His jaw was tight. His eyes were darker than I'd ever seen them."Don't pull away," he said. His voice was quiet but it wasn't soft. There was nothing soft about any of this."Riven, Lily is literally right upstairs.""I know where she is.""She's going to come down.""Then you better be quiet."I stared at him. My hand was still trapped under his, still pressed against him, and I could feel every breath he took moving through his body. He shifted his hips a little and the pressure under my palm changed and I had to bite the inside of my cheek to keep from making a sound."You're insane," I whispered."Probably." His thumb moved over the back of my hand, slow an
Chapter 48Izzy Riven moved closer until his chest almost touched mine. “It means I’m pissed. It means I’m hard. It means the idea of her touching you like that is doing things to my head that I don’t know what to do with yet. And it means this doesn’t stay in the kitchen.”“You already said that.”“I’m saying it again.” His free hand came up and traced the mark on my neck again, slower this time. “She left this on you. She made you sore. She made you look like that when I walked in. And you stood here lying about it for twenty minutes.”“I was trying to keep the peace.”“There is no peace. Not after that.”I tried to step back but the chair was right behind me and there was nowhere to go. “What do you want me to do? Apologize? Pretend it didn’t happen? I already told you the truth. Mostly.”“Mostly.”“I didn’t give you a play by play. You’re welcome.”He stared at me for another long second and then his hand slid from my waist up under the hem of my shirt, palm flat against my bare
Izzy He pushed the door open anyway. I jumped up and tried to shove it closed but he slipped in and shut it behind him. He looked at me. My face felt flushed. Breathing still fast.“You okay?” he asked. “You look all red and out of breath.”“I am fine,” I snapped. “What do you want? Get out of my
Izzy I slammed the door so hard my hand stung right away. My heart would not slow down. It kept pounding like it wanted to jump out. I ran down the hall to my room and locked the door fast. I pressed my back against it and slid all the way down to the floor. My legs felt weak. What the hell did I
Riven I shifted on the bed trying to ignore it pushing the phone down for a second and running a hand through my hair thinking about all the reasons this was stupid I hated how she looked at me like I was the intruder when they moved in and how she fought back every time instead of just staying ou
Riven I couldn’t shake it no matter how hard I tried, the whole thing kept replaying in my head like some bad loop I couldn’t pause, her standing there in my doorway with her eyes wide and her mouth dropped open after she barged in without knocking like she owned the place too now that our parents







