《TANGLED:,Crazy For You》全部章節：第 41 章 - 第 50 章

Silas Fuck, Hazel. I whispered it low as she squirmed on my lap in the back seat. Her body twisted against mine, hips grinding without control, and my cock stiffened instantly, pressing up into her heat. The drug coursed through her, turning every shift into pure torment for me. I gripped her waist tight, fingers digging into her sides to halt the friction before I lost it right there. The car pulled into our building, driver killing the engine. No time to waste.I scooped her up, her weight light in my arms, and bolted out, rushing through the lobby doors. Elevator ride felt endless, her head lolling against my shoulder, breaths coming fast and shallow. Up to her floor, down the hall, key fumbling in the lock. Inside her room at last, door slamming shut behind us. The drug stripped her inhibitions, pushing her toward actions she'd curse herself for tomorrow. I couldn't let it go that far—not yet.Bathroom first. I set her on her feet, steadying her as she swayed. Her hands already t

HazelThe lecture was about something she had covered in the reading two weeks ago. She knew this because she had done the reading two weeks ago and remembered sitting at the kitchen table with a highlighter going through it page by page. She knew the material. She should have been following along without any difficulty.She was not following along. Not even close.Her brain had something else it was working on. Something it would not let go of and would not make clear either. It sat underneath everything, pulling at her attention at random intervals like a word on the tip of a tongue that would not come forward no matter how many times she reached for it. She wrote notes she barely looked at and stared at the board and kept circling back to the same place — the party, the gap, the nothing that came after.She had woken up again that morning and checked herself in the mirror and did not know what she had been looking for. Nothing visible. Just standing there with the same face she alw

HazelShe had left the house by nine.Not for class — class was not until the afternoon and she knew that. She left because she had sat in her room eating dry cereal and decided she was not going to spend the next four hours in a building where she might turn a corner and come face to face with Silas. Not today. Not in her current state. He could have the whole house to himself and she would take herself somewhere she could breathe without doing a threat assessment before leaving a room.Maya's house was twenty minutes on foot. Hazel showed up at the door at nine twenty-three and Maya's mother let her in without question and offered tea before she had even taken her shoes off. That was the kind of welcome that explained a lot about Maya.She was lying on Maya's bed by nine thirty, staring at the ceiling. Maya was at the desk doing absolutely nothing productive."You know," Maya said, turning in her chair, "you have been acting awfully suspicious lately."She leaned over and poked Haz

SilasMy kitten had been avoiding me for three days.I let her. That was the interesting part — I let her do it and I watched and it was genuinely entertaining. She had an entire system. She checked the car park before coming in. She moved through the house at hours she had calculated I wouldn't be around. She took food upstairs rather than eating in the kitchen. She left in the morning before I was visible.It was thorough. I respected the effort.What she hadn't accounted for was that I had been watching her do all of it.The thing about Hazel is she has no idea what she does. None. She goes through her days with her bag and her headphones and that expression she wears when she's thinking about something she's not ready to say yet, and she has absolutely no concept of the effect any of it has. If she did — if she had even a rough idea of what had been going through my head since I carried her out of that party — she wouldn't just be avoiding me. She'd have moved out entirely.I sh

— HazelShe had the misfortune of having the same class as Chloe.She realized this when they filed back from the changing rooms and ended up in the same corridor heading to the same room. Chloe was two people ahead and did not acknowledge her, which was fine. Tiffany's absence from the building — currently in the infirmary, still being attended to — meant the usual dynamic was missing one component, and without Tiffany to anchor it, Chloe seemed slightly less purposeful. Just a person in a hallway. Slightly diminished.Hazel thought about the dodgeball and almost felt something like pity.Almost. Then she remembered the trajectory of that throw — how it had come in hard and clearly aimed — and the almost went away.She found a seat near the window and settled in.The lecture was one she had been following all term and would normally have paid attention to without much effort. Today her brain was operating slightly behind where it should have been. She spent part of the first half wa