Ice Cold Heart (Beyond the Ice Book 2) by Nikki Hall

Author:Nikki Hall [Hall, Nikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-06-14T00:00:00+00:00

17

Why did shit always go down at Kappa house? Reece had other places he could party, but he couldn’t quit the frat scene.

I parked a couple of blocks away and ignored the stares as I hurried to the party currently spread across the neighbor’s lawn. Christmas lights twinkled on the houses I passed in a colorful blur, and I realized we were only days away from the holiday.

So much had changed since the day I’d gotten tired of Reece’s shit and left for the library. Back then, it had seemed like winter break stretched on forever in an endless loop of reading misery. Now, I’d love it if time screeched to a stop. Gavin and Eva would be back soon, then Christmas, and then break would be over. My free time would be dedicated to practice and games and coursework.

Avery would be around, especially since she’d been tasked with writing articles about the hockey team, but would she let me get her alone? I had three big assignments left for my lit class and a bunch of smaller short stories we were supposed to read. I’d always been able to muddle through a couple of pages on my own, but something about Avery’s tutoring worked in my brain. Maybe because I wasn’t worried about her judging me for my shitty reading—I was too busy trying to come up with ways to get her to smile at me again.

And now I was here rescuing my dumbass roommate instead of spending time with her.

Reece had told me to look for the giant pink flamingo, and his directions were spot on. Someone had found a humongous inflatable bird wearing a jaunty Santa hat and set it up at the edge of the yard. Why? Who knew. I didn’t understand frat guys on the best of days.

I found Mase sitting under the bird’s upraised, bent leg. The scowl on his face was familiar, but the way he was splayed out on the ground as if he couldn’t figure out how he got there made me quicken my pace. As I watched, he hauled himself to his feet and staggered around the standing leg, disappearing behind a group of girls in tight dresses.

“Get the fuck off me.”

The quiet growl reached me over the music, and I broke into a sprint.

“Whoa,” laughed a familiar voice. “Where you going so fast?”

I skirted the girls and the flamingo, taking in the situation without slowing. A group of guys wearing royal blue Easton hoodies surrounded Mase and now Reece. Even in the dark, I recognized Tobias Kane, but I didn’t know the other three guys. Only Mase looked like he was ready to throw down.

“I was just trying to help, man. You looked unsteady.” Kane’s fake concern made his sidekicks burst into laughter.

I shoved myself in front of Mase before he could act on the violence in his eyes. He was the biggest of us, so my body alone wouldn’t have stopped him if he’d decided to tear Kane’s head off his shoulders.

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