FURY: A Dark High School Bully Romance (Rosewood High Book 6) by Tracy Lorraine

Author:Tracy Lorraine [Lorraine, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

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Ruby

The second I wake up, I know something is wrong, and it’s not just because he’s not holding me any longer—like he was every time I woke up in the night—it’s more than that, I can sense it.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Today is the day we bury his mother. I still have so many questions about her, about what happened, about how he’s dealing with it. But he shuts down every attempt I’ve made to talk about it.

I want to be what he needs, but at the same time, I know that bottling it up isn’t going to help in the long run.

He blames himself. He hates himself. That’s about as much as I know, and it doesn’t really give me a lot to go on to try to help.

My head gently throbs at my temples reminding me of last night’s vodka and I sit up slowly so I don’t upset my stomach. I pull at the sheets to cover my still naked body but they don’t move. I soon discover why when I look up.

Ashton is sitting on the end of the bed with his head in his hands. His shoulders are slumped in defeat and my heart aches for him. I want to help, I want to take the pain away, but I can’t. I can’t do fuck-all but stand beside him while he experiences what I’m sure is about to be the worst day of his life.

If he knows I’m awake, then he shows no signs of it. Sliding forward, I push my legs off the bed and sit beside him before wrapping my arm around his shoulder and placing my other hand on his thigh.

He tenses at my touch but he doesn’t do anything else.

“Tell me what you need,” I say, pressing my lips to his bare shoulder, hoping that he’s going to let me in, let me support him.

He waits a few seconds, then sucks in a deep breath. I start to think he’s going to respond and a little hope seeps into me but instead of speaking, he jumps up from the bed with such force that his elbow flies backward and straight into my eye.

I want to cry out as my eyes water with the pain, but I don’t want him to feel any worse than he already does, so I swallow it down.

“Ash, what are you doing?” I ask when my vision clears, and I find him pulling on a pair of black sweats and a black zip-up hoodie.

“I can’t fucking do this,” he mutters before pocketing his cell and marching from the room.

“Wait,” I call, running after him, not stopping to bother covering up. No point now, he’s definitely seen everything I have to offer.

He stands in the doorway ready to leave the apartment but before he disappears, he looks back at me over his shoulder.

I gasp at the look on his face. His eyes are dark and haunted, his lips are pressed into a thin line. He looks... devastated.

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