Total pages in book: 99
Estimated words: 95950 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 480(@200wpm)___ 384(@250wpm)___ 320(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 95950 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 480(@200wpm)___ 384(@250wpm)___ 320(@300wpm)
I take a quick step back and lift my chin, not wanting him to see how much power he still holds over me. Time has done nothing to diminish it. “That’s none of your business.”
Whether Hunter realizes it or not, he still owns a piece of my heart. It’s better for both of us if he never suspects the depth of my feelings.
His hands tighten into fists as he closes the little bit of distance that I’ve managed to put between us. Instead of scrambling back the way every instinct is clamoring for me to do, I hold my ground until we’re standing toe-to-toe. My heart pounds a painful staccato against my breast as his harsh breath feathers across my parted lips.
There was a time when I couldn’t get close enough to Hunter.
Now I can’t get far enough away.
Sorrow floods through every fiber of my body that it has to be this way between us. Next to Lanie, Hunter was my best friend. He was my first everything.
Date.
Kiss.
Love.
Heartbreak.
Everything we once shared has been blown to pieces, and we’re nothing more than strangers. Actually, what we are is much worse. His animosity is palpable. It radiates from him in suffocating waves that threaten to choke the life out of me.
“You shouldn’t have come back,” he growls. “You don’t belong here anymore.”
That may be true, but there’s nothing I can do about it. I’m here. And I’m not going anywhere.
I shift my weight and force myself to say, “Claremont is big enough for the two of us.”
“No, it’s not. Stay the fuck out of my way, Skye.” His eyes flash with barely suppressed hostility. “You won’t like the consequences if you don’t.”
Before I can summon up a retort, he stalks away. Rooted in place, I track his movements until he fades into the crowd. Not once does he turn around and acknowledge my presence. I’ve been dismissed. Relegated to the black hole that is our past.
Once he disappears from sight, my knees weaken as the pent-up breath rushes from my aching lungs.
I haven’t been on campus for a full seventy-two hours, and in Hunter’s eyes, I’m public enemy number one.