HIS LITTLE PET
Same jaw, same eyes, none of the softness that sometimes broke through when Adrian forgot to control his face.
"So this is him," Marcus said, to Adrian, not to me. Like I was a specimen. Like I wasn't standing three feet away with a working set of ears.
"This is Julian Cross," Adrian said. "My partner."
"Cross." Marcus turned to me at last, and his eyes went over me the way you'd check a used car for rust. Shoes. Jacket. The bag I'd had since freshman year with the strap I'd repaired myself with packing tape and a needle. "Full scholarship, I assume."