Crossing the Barrier by Martine Lewis

Author:Martine Lewis [Lewis, Martine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Coming of Age, Romance, Contemporary, Sports, Teen & Young Adult
Amazon: B01BLUIWWK
Publisher: BMJ Chanapi Press
Published: 2016-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-Four

LILY

As Sandra and she pulled into their street the next Monday afternoon after band practice, Lily frowned; three cars she had never seen before were parked in her driveway. The places being all taken, she parked on the street and got out of the car, followed by Sandra.

“Who is that?” Sandra asked.

“I don’t know.”

“Want me to come with?”

“No,” Lily answered, frowning. “I should be okay.”

“Okay. I’ll see you tomorrow then.”

Sandra left, and Lily made her way toward the house. The moment she closed the door, Beatrice appeared next to her.

“Some of your friends from school are in the sitting room. Entertain them while I’m meeting with their parents. And don’t make me look bad, I’m warning you,” she hissed, taking Lily by the arm and pulling her toward the sitting room.

“Here she is,” Beatrice exclaimed before Lily could walk away.

Lily looked up; Wes, Zoe, and Tommy, Zoe’s brother and the previous year’s quarterback, were sitting on the white couch. As they stood and looked at her with smiles on their faces, Lily perceived something bad coming from them, something she had never felt before, and it made her want to run to her room, lock the door, and put a chair under the knob.

Behind the three stood Andrea and Lucas, one of the defensive line players. The two were confused and uncomfortable as if they had no idea what was going on.

“Elizabeth, please make sure you offer your friends something to drink,” Beatrice said, smiling at her.

Without adding a word, Beatrice made her way toward her office and conference room on her side of the house.

“You guys want something to drink?” Lily asked, putting on her fake smile. “We’ve got Diet Coke, regular Coke, orange juice, water.”

Lily was becoming increasingly uneasy, and it took all of her willpower not to run out the front door to Sandra’s. The feelings had turned from bad to ugly, with an undercurrent of violence.

“Sure. I’d like a Diet Coke,” Zoe said with a smile that didn’t even look friendly.

“I’ll have one too,” Andrea added.

“Coke for me,” Wes said lazily.

Lily looked at Tommy and Lucas.

“Nah, I’m fine,” Tommy said with a wink.

Lucas shook his head.

Lily quickly made her way to the kitchen and, seeing her chance, grabbed her phone from her back pocket. She had only a moment as she felt them making their way to the kitchen. She willed her trembling fingers to type her established emergency code to Sandra and was pressing Send when she was pushed against the counter. The phone flew from her hand and landed in the sink.

Wes.

Wes was holding her with all his weight, trapping her, pressing her lower abdomen against the counter, hurting her, and making it hard for her to draw in air. What was even more terrifying was the way he felt: violent, lustful, wanting, desperate.

Alarmed, Lily glanced at her phone, hoping against hope the text had gone through, but the phone had landed face down and she couldn’t see.

“Soooo, we meet again,” he said. “I hear you like to play the field.

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