Mistakes : A College Bully Romance by Candace Wondrak

Author:Candace Wondrak [Wondrak, Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four – Levi

I didn’t go back to her dorm on Monday. After my little tiff with Dean, I was trying to tread lightly where I could. I didn’t want to make any more big scenes. As it was, Dean would be on the lookout for me now, so I had to press the brakes and cool off. Focusing on Kelsey would not help me cool off.

Plus, I didn’t want her to think I was some stalker or something.

I wasn’t. Not really.

I planned on giving Kelsey some space, maybe for a week or two, but that first Tuesday, that first lab after the weekend she spent away, I knew something was wrong with her. It wasn’t hard to figure out. She practically spaced out, she and her partner standing near a lab station near the windows in the back for most of the class. Though I was on the other side of the classroom with my partner, I could tell she hardly spoke. Her body was stiff, yet slumped. Her full lips were drawn in a line, and she spent most of her time staring out of the window.

It was a miserable fall day, not the kind of weather you’d want to gaze longingly at.

How the hell could I give her space when she looked so downtrodden? So depressed and sad and—fuck—lonely? I didn’t want Kelsey to ever feel those things; I wanted to make her better, to help those lips curl into a sly smile again.

It was as the period went on that I lost myself in my thoughts. What if her weekend was terrible? What if something happened to her while she was gone? I’d watched her at the Sigma Chi party, and I knew she was a girl who was comfortable at parties and drinking, even if she was by herself. What if…

No, I wouldn’t let my mind go there.

Once lab was over and everyone was packing up and leaving, trying to hurry to beat the rain that was surely going to fall, I stopped doing everything, my head turned toward the back of the class, where Kelsey still sat, staring out of the window. She and I were the only ones left in the classroom, and even though there was only fifteen feet between us, it felt like so much more.

My bag hung loosely over my shoulder as I quietly got up from my seat, slowly making my way toward her, inching closer like I was afraid she’d snap and bite me, a wild, feral animal I knew better than to trust.

Fucking stupid. If anyone shouldn’t be trusted here, it was obviously me.

I stood near her, saying, “Hey.”

My voice immediately snapped Kelsey out of whatever funk she was in; she blinked, coming back to herself, and immediately grabbed her bag, doing her damnedest to ignore me. If she wanted to pretend to not hear me, she could go right ahead. I knew those ears of hers heard me, and I knew I still affected her, one way or another.

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