Beaten: A High School Bully Romance (Athole Academy Book 2) by Vi Lily

Author:Vi Lily [Lily, Vi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HEA Publishers
Published: 2019-10-11T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

A fter Ogre was fed and sleeping contentedly on the ottoman by the fire and Steve was watching the second game in the tournament Alex had been watching earlier, he carried Ari back up the stairs to his room. Well, it was her room now.

He placed her in the center of the bed so she was sitting against the headboard, then he went to his dresser and got his school tablet and sat back down beside her. Despite his intense embarrassment over what he felt like was his stupidity, another weird feeling of rightness came over him then and he shoved it aside.

Ari looked over his assignments and surprisingly, she quickly realized what his problem was. It was as he thought; he was dyslexic.

“You would think someone woulda noticed by now,” he grumbled. “I mean, I’m about to graduate and in all these years and through all the schools I’ve been to, no one coulda said, ‘Hey, Alex needs some extra help with his reading’?”

Ari hadn’t even commented, but just taught him some tricks to use to sort out the letters and numbers. When he asked her how she knew about dyslexia, she’d admitted she’d had the same problem.

After that, he totally relaxed his guard with her.

He’d managed to get almost caught up with his English assignments by mid-afternoon, thanks to Ari’s help. He then went downstairs to check on Ogre and to make them some lunch, despite Ari’s insistence that she wasn’t hungry.

Steve was nowhere to be found and Alex assumed he was in his room. There was no way he’d go out in the snow; he’d only been in the northeast for the past few months, having lived in California after the family left Texas. The guy definitely couldn’t drive in the snow.

Ogre seemed a little squirmy, so Alex picked him up after shushing his growls and carried him to the back porch. It was covered, so at least there wasn’t any snow. The dog looked up at him in question, but Alex just motioned to him to do his business.

“Just do what ya gotta do, boy. I gotta hose I can wash it off with.” Surprisingly, the dog seemed to understand, and he proceeded to mark his territory.

The dog seemed fine to walk, so Alex led the way back into the living room. Ogre climbed back up on the ottoman of his own accord, which made Alex want to smile. He wished Ari would make herself at home like that.

After heating up some leftover hamburger casserole stuff Steve made, he gave it to Ogre, then made ham and swiss sandwiches, grabbed some sodas and chips, and headed back upstairs. He paused outside of his room, though, when he heard voices.

“—he had it a lot worse than me,” his brother said. “Our father was determined to beat any humor outta him.”

Ari murmured something he couldn’t hear then.

“No, he used to be a happy kid. I think that’s why Dad was so horrible to him. He couldn’t stand to see anyone happy, since he was so miserable himself.

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