Diem: A High School Bully Romance (Saints & Sinners Book 2) by Nina Lincoln

Author:Nina Lincoln [Lincoln, Nina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-19T18:30:00+00:00

The next afternoon I text Penny, but she doesn’t answer. When I stop by her house, her mom informs me she’s out and with my heart in my throat, I walk away.

Mrs. Loughlin looks terrible, and I can’t help but feel sorry for her. I know how badly my heart hurts at the loss of Dixie. How does Mrs. Loughlin get out of bed every day?

With Penny ducking my texts, I’m left with the specter of facing Diem’s cruel words and seeming breakdown and I’d rather avoid the topic altogether. I can’t save Diem even if I wanted to, because he doesn’t want my help, not even as a friend. I have to let it go and focus on what I do have control over. Sort of.

My dad. Ugh.

I need something concrete, but all my efforts have only led to more questions. And my damn brother continues to ignore my pleas.

“Mae?”

“Fuck!” I shriek, grabbing my chest and turning to Diem standing inside my room next to the open window.

“What the fuck are you doing here?” I rasp.

His heated eyes slide away from mine, and he says, “Your brother asked me to check in on you.”

“Why?” Since when does my brother care about what I’m up to? I smell something fishy.

“Don’t know.” He shrugs and with a dramatic roll of my eyes, I turn away.

“Just go. You shouldn’t be here.”

“Not until you tell me about Patrick,” he says, leaning against the wall and crossing his arms.

Eyeing him with a frown, I give in because the sooner I do, the sooner he’ll get the fuck out of my room. “I don’t know anything beyond he was at that party the other night.”

Oops. Sore subject, I know, and I wince when he looks away, his jaw ticking and says, “And Skull?”

“Why can’t Ollie text me?” I ask and Diem shakes his head.

“He’s busy. Was Skull at that party, Mae?”

“Yes,” I say, and his brows drop over his eyes. Avoiding his no doubt murderous look, which he’ll deny if confronted about, I grab my phone and pretend to check my text messages. Anything to delay the inevitable with this asshole.

But my fingers slip off the phone when a text comes through and I watch it tumble to the floor, muttering, “Shit.”

Penny: I found something else…it's a message from some guy named Charlie

Charlie: You like it dark? Let’s play on the dark side…

“Jesus Mae, will you just…” Diem’s grim smile drops to icy blankness as he searches my gaze. “What is it?”

“Nothing,” I whisper, picking up my phone and glancing at the door. “You shouldn’t be here.”

“Mae—” he says, and I do the only thing I can think of, I deflect.

“Diem, my dad—”

Shaking his head, he points his finger and says, “You need to drop this shit about your dad. So, he fucks around. Big deal.”

“Big deal,” I shriek. “Big deal? He’s messing around with girls my age, Diem. That’s…”

Shit. Is that what all these dicks are doing? Dr. Love…Charlie…Dad. Turning away, I face the wall, my mind racing.

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