Total pages in book: 33
Estimated words: 31730 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 159(@200wpm)___ 127(@250wpm)___ 106(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 31730 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 159(@200wpm)___ 127(@250wpm)___ 106(@300wpm)
He falters and his jaw goes slack. “Oh, I, uh…”
“I’m not exactly sure what you’re inferring,” I bite out, “but I don’t like it. Especially not after what our school dealt with yesterday.”
He shoots River a disgusted look. “I want to know where you were last night.”
“Ummm…” Her voice shakes as she scrambles for an answer.
“I saw her leave with some lanky kid after school. Calvin or Cale or Canton. I can’t remember his name,” I blurt out.
“Caleb?” she offers.
Her dad curses. “Goddammit, River! We’ve barely settled in and you’re back to being the town whore. How long do we get to live here before you screw someone that will force us to move again?”
She bursts into tears, clearly embarrassed by her father, and I step in.
“You, sir,” I seethe, “are out of line. Save the reprimand for home. It doesn’t happen here.”
He glares at me. “I beg your pardon. Who do you think you are talking to me like that?”
I feel my fists clench as I step closer to him. “She serves the detention or she gets suspended. End of story. But I will not allow you to call River a whore where other students can hear. Are we clear?”
He pokes a finger into my chest and it takes everything in me not to break the smaller man’s hand. “I want her in my car as soon as detention is over.” He turns his attention to River. “And you, young lady, are going to get your ass chewed out the moment you get there.”
He storms off and River cries into her palms. I want to clobber that asshole but my hands are fucking tied. I’m already up shit creek now that Olivia is on to us. The last thing I need is to have River’s dad knowing that I’ve been balls deep inside his only daughter.
“Come on. You have lockers to clean,” I tell her and stalk back inside the building. Once she’s inside the doors with me, I pull her to my chest. “I’m so sorry, baby. I wanted to kill his ass for talking to you that way.”
She clutches onto me and sniffles against my shirt. I stroke her hair until she’s calm. Then, I guide her back to my office. Once I close the door, I sit in my chair and pull her into my lap. We sit like that for the next thirty minutes. I know that prick is waiting in the car and soon I’ll have to let her go, but for now, I will keep her in my arms.
“I wish I were graduated and on my own already,” she whispers.
Me too.
God how I want that.
“I want to take you out soon, Emo.”
She sits up and gives me a shy smile. “Really?”
“Really,” I tell her and stroke her cheek with my thumb. “I’ll take you wherever you want to go. Just you and me. We’ll go somewhere as a couple. Next time you can get away from home, we’ll do it.”
“You would go somewhere with me?” Her eyes shimmer with excitement. “Like on a date?”
“I’d take you out right now and parade you around the school on my arm if it wouldn’t get me fired to do so,” I say with a wicked grin. “If I’m jobless, while you’re here in school, I can’t taste your pussy. And, angel, I need to taste that sweetness every day.”
She straddles my lap and kisses me hard. River feels too good in my arms. The more I allow myself to have of her, the less I ever want to let her go. We make out until I’m pretty sure her dad is going to come looking for her.
“You gotta go, Emo,” I murmur against her mouth. “We’ll figure something out. Until then, I will see you Monday. ”
She frowns but nods. “Monday.”
“When you graduate, things will get better.”
At this, she beams. “I can’t wait.”
We’ve gone an entire week without any more mishaps. During track practice, River is focused and driven. And I love watching her give Caleb shit. He seems like a cool kid now that I’m not worried she’s into him. During pre-calculus, my smart girl tears through her lessons so she can spend the rest of the hour pretending not to know how to do the work and find reasons to rub against me or flash me her tits. And finally, during detention after school, we find ways to fool around. I’ve fingered her more times than I can count but we’ve yet to do anything that we can’t quickly hide. There’s no way I can fuck her after what happened with Olivia walking in. Thankfully though, Olivia has stayed true to her word. She winks at me and laughs whenever she sees me but nobody knows why she’s giving me shit. I’m glad she befriended my River. River needs friends.