Until the End (Sea Breeze #9)(13)

“There’s always Ellie Nova. That piece of ass is the best around here. But I’m working on getting a bite of that.”

Ellie Nova was the high school princess. Not my type. She knew she was gorgeous and she worked it. I didn’t tell Dewayne I had actually already had a taste. She’d come onto me at a party at the end of last year. I’d kissed her, but it didn’t do anything for me.

“She’s all yours,” I assured him, then took another bite of my candy bar.

Dewayne nodded and leaned back, crossing his arms over his chest. “Guess if Trisha Corbin worked it, she’d be just as f**king hot. She hides away from everyone and doesn’t say much. Her group of friends is small. But yeah, I can see the attraction. The girl has a body. And her face . . .” He let out a low whistle.

I didn’t realize my hands had curled tightly into fists until Dewayne’s gaze dropped down to them. He smirked. “Yeah, I can see you’ve moved on from that.”

Books dropped onto the desk on the other side of me. “Damn, D. What’d you do to piss him off? And where’d you get the candy?” Preston asked as he slipped into the desk.

“He’s pissy over Trisha Corbin,” Dewayne said, smiling smugly.

Damn ass**le.

Long, tanned legs caught my attention and I let my gaze travel up to see a short little navy skirt that so didn’t meet the dress code. But damn, was it nice. The small waist and perky tits weren’t bad either.

Noah Miller, a senior with dark red hair and big brown eyes, smiled at me just before taking the seat in front of me. “Hey, Rock,” she said in a soft voice as she leaned over and batted her long eyelashes at me.

Sure, she was wearing a lot of makeup, but not everyone could look like Trisha without makeup. Noah’s face wasn’t hard to look at. Never had been.

“Hello, Noah,” I replied.

“You ready for tonight?” she asked. The top three buttons on her white shirt were unbuttoned, showing me her cle**age. Not a bad view.

“Yeah. You coming?” I asked.

She gave me a small shrug, then grinned. “I guess I would if I knew I had plans afterward.”

This was an invitation. Did I want to go there with her? Shit, why not? Trisha wasn’t interested. Hell, Trisha hated me.

“Party at the beach tonight. Bonfire win or lose. But we’re gonna win,” I added.

She bit her bottom lip, then pressed her arms against the sides of her tits to squeeze them together. It was a move I knew and appreciated. “I don’t want to go alone.”

Dewayne cleared his throat to keep from laughing. This was what I was used to. What I knew. Maybe that was the way it was supposed to be. I didn’t need to go after girls who weren’t interested. The ones who wanted me were where I needed to stay.

I leaned forward on the desk and dropped my gaze to her tits she wanted me to look at so badly. “I think I can fix that for you,” I told her boobs. “After the game meet me at the field house.”

She shivered and I was back in territory I knew. “Okay. We can take my new car,” she said. “It’s a Charger and completely badass. I’ll let you drive it.”

I wouldn’t have the truck tonight. Fixed that problem.

Lifting my gaze to meet her brown eyes flashing with attraction and excitement, I grinned. “Sounds good, baby.”

“And he’s back on the horse,” Dewayne drawled.

I ignored him. Instead I reached over and tucked a lock of Noah’s hair behind her ear and winked. She melted just like I knew she would.

This was much easier.

So why didn’t it f**king feel good?

Chapter Twelve

Trisha

Riley opened the door to the cafeteria before I could get to it. “Let’s eat!” she said in her bright, cheery tone.

I was starving. This morning Fandora’s new boyfriend had come out of her bedroom while we were getting ready to go. His eyes had scanned my body, and then he’d gotten that creepy grin I’d seen before on her boyfriends. “Fandora didn’t tell me her daughter was so f**king hot” had been his oh-so-intelligent words.

“She’s also too young. Jail bait¸” I had replied in a warning tone. Then I’d hurried out the door with Krit. Luckily, he had gotten to eat his bowl of Frosted Flakes. Me, not so much. I was still moving slow, and getting ready took me longer than it normally did.

“You coming to the game tonight?” Riley asked me.

That was all anyone talked about today. The football game. I was so sick of hearing about it. Rock’s name was always attached to the conversations. He wasn’t getting to play the first five minutes, and everyone was panicking.

I felt guilty about that but didn’t know why. It wasn’t like I had asked him to miss his practice and come to my house. But he had. And he had also been sure not to approach me today.

I was certain he was going to try to speak to me when I got off the bus this morning, but he hadn’t. My words had sunk in. Hadn’t taken much for him to figure out I wasn’t worth it.

“Doubt it,” I replied, standing in line for food. Fandora had made sure to apply for free lunch for Krit. She hadn’t bothered for me. However, the school system had added me too since they could see we came from the same home. I never let her know. I was afraid she’d take it out on me.