Elements of Chemistry: Capture by Penny Reid

Author:Penny Reid [Reid, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Caped Publishing
Published: 2015-05-08T16:00:00+00:00

Martin: Don’t go out with the band, I’m driving you back to my place. I haven’t seen or talked to you all week.

I frowned at this second note, felt like it was an unnecessary addition. The more I studied the text, the more it looked like a command. I rolled my eyes. Typical Martin. I quickly typed out a response.

Kaitlyn: You’re not the boss of me.

Martin: I know. But sometimes I act like I am.

Kaitlyn: Why?

Martin: Because you like it.

I stared at his last message; it set my heart off at a gallop. I did like it. I liked arguing with Martin, challenging him, bucking under his attempts to boss me around. Or, I had liked it when we were together.

Abram was right. I was still wishing. And yet, there were still so many things unsettled between us. Even if I told him I still had feelings for him and he returned them, would it matter? All of the reasons we split before seemed to have evaporated except for the biggest one: he’d chosen his revenge over us…or maybe he hadn’t.

The way Emma described the situation, it sounded like Martin hadn’t put his revenge plan into action. And yet, he’d let me walk away in the spring. GAH! I was confused. I didn’t know if I could trust him.

Nevertheless, there was the girl in the pictures. Even if he’d ultimately abandoned his revenge, he’d still been able to move on with someone else and I hadn’t.

Absentmindedly, I gathered my things and left the backstage area, only peripherally aware that Fitzy and Abram were still talking and that it might have something to do with me. I easily found the elevators, the sounds of the remaining party fading the farther I walked from the event space.

But then I became aware that someone was behind me and I turned, finding Willis. He looked grim.

I gave him a questioning look, stopping and facing him. “What’s up?”

“I thought we talked about this.”

“About what?”

“You and Abram. You and Fitzy.”

I breathed my relief. “Nothing is going on with Abram. He and I are friends.”

“What about Fitzy? He’s looking at you lately like a sushi roll with no tuna.”

“Nothing is going on with Fitzy and me either, at least not on my side.”

He crossed his arms. “Don’t shit on my leg and tell me it’s frosting.”

The elevator dinged, announcing its arrival.

Meanwhile, I did an admirable job of not laughing at the mental image of me defecating on Willis’s leg then trying to pass it off as chocolate frosting.

“Again, nothing is going on.”

“I told you before, I don’t want you going on any mattress tours. This stuff between you and the boys needs to stop.”

“Willis, I have no part in their boy-angst. Whatever they’re arguing about is between them.”

Willis nodded thoughtfully, but then his attention snagged on something behind me. I twisted to see what it was and found Martin standing just inside the elevator, his eyes narrowed and focused on Willis.

“Oh…oh!” I turned completely around, feeling my cheeks flood with warmth while I wondered how much of that conversation Martin had overheard.

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