Infatuated by Elle Jordan

Author:Elle Jordan [Jordan, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781890785758
Publisher: EJ Books
Published: 2013-10-11T23:00:00+00:00

At my door, Kale tried to take the phone again but I stopped him. Frustrated, he tossed the ice pack in my freezer, told me to take something for my knee, and then he was gone. I went to my room and sat on the edge of the bed. My head and knee were killing me. My heart ached, for me and Kale. Hurting him wasn’t my intention, because even knowing his heart was in the right place, it didn’t make me feel any better. Right place didn’t unequivocally mean it was the right thing.

I took a hot shower, hoping the heat would help ease my knee, and some aspirin for swelling. After limping around my apartment for thirty minutes, I called Maxine to see if she’d pick me up for class.

“Did he hurt you?” she asked, eying me as I wobbled out to her car. “Cause if he did, I’ll kill him. I’ll chop off his man bits and feed them to the sharks. There were some spotted on the coast—”

“I fell, Max. Ease up.” And then I told how and why I’d fallen. I loved her too much to tell her what, exactly, the message had said, but I told her enough so she got the gist.

“Are you sure you want to go to class?” She frowned at me. “You look like hell, Als.”

“Thanks.”

She rolled her eyes. “You know what I mean.”

I let out a breath. “No, I don’t want to go to class. I want to crawl in bed and sleep for a week, but I’m not going to. I don’t want to mess up my grades because I—”

“Missing one class won’t kill your grades. You’re a smart girl, you know that more than anyone.”

No, it wouldn’t. But I didn’t want to be home, either. I would be too busy taking notes in class to think about…everything else. At least that was my hope.

“Just drive, Max. I’ll be fine.”

Shaking her head, she pulled out of the parking lot and pulled onto the main road. “How did I end up friends with such a goody two-shoes?”

“Because I took awesome notes, even in middle school, and you needed the help.”

“Oh, yeah. You’re the brainy half.”

“You’re the pretty half.”

“And together we make the perfect woman,” we said together, then laughed like idiots. It was something we’d been saying for years.

When she parked and helped me out of the car, I said, “Thanks for picking me up, Max. I know it’s out of your way.”

“You’d do the same for me,” she answered with a nonchalant shrug.

“Of course I would.”

She grabbed my books and purse, then shut the door. “Ready?”

The glare of light flashed in my eyes. I blinked against it and turned my head to the side a fraction. Earl. He had something near his face—a camera, I thought—but quickly set it aside when he saw me watching. Instead of the usual stomach-dropping feeling that accompanied Earl-sightings, a fire burned in my gut. A hatred like nothing I’d ever experienced before.

Caution and fear forgotten, I let anger carry me forward.

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