Rebel's Love (Cape Cove Book 1) by Harper Monroe

Author:Harper Monroe [Monroe, Harper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-09-22T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

MERICK

Maddox and Axel bombard my locker while I’m putting my books away. Axel nuzzles my neck and peppers kisses from my shoulder to my ear while his arm snakes around my waist. “What time am I picking you up for the party tomorrow night?” His hot breath floats across my ear, sending a shiver running up my spine and my flesh splattering with goosebumps.

I sigh heavily. “I don’t even know if I want to go.” Spinning in his hold, I face Axel. “Can’t I just forget they exist like they did me? There’s a reason London called me, and it wasn’t just to invite me to that bitch’s party. Something’s up.” I stare up at the guy I have fallen hard for in a short period of time.

My head, my heart, and my body are at war. My head screams that I’m nothing more than the game he told me I was and that I’m stupid for letting him in. He’s going to destroy me. My heart, it swells when I get glimpses of sweet Axel, like him lying with me in my bed and holding me as we talk about our futures. My heart beats for him and tells me that somewhere deep down under his hard exterior that maybe, just maybe, some part deep down inside of him does care about me. He’s going to break that part of me, and I’ll be left standing alone to pick up the shattered pieces. My body is drawn to him like a moth to his flame, like he said, but it’s more than that. It’s like an invisible chain wraps around me and physically pulls me to him. I’m unable to break the link.

“I haven’t known you for long, Princess, but I’ve never seen you scared to face someone,” Maddox interjects.

“I’m not scared…I just…” I don’t know what it is. Maybe I can’t face them knowing how they’ve all treated me. All I know is that I’ve changed since moving to Cape Cove, and for the first time, I am truly happy. I don’t need the money they have in Havana Hills. I don’t need the grand house, the expensive shoes, the cars, or the designer clothes. All I need are my parents to love me without expectations, the friends I have made here, and most of all, I need Axel.

Axel’s arm drops, and he steps back, glaring at me. “You don’t want to break up with him?”

“Axel…” Reaching out, I fist his shirt, trying to keep him close. “It’s not—”

“Hey, Merick.”

How do I explain to him that I do want to break up with Matt? In my eyes, we’re not even together anymore, but that Maddox is right, I’m scared? Matt was comfortable. He was what I knew. He was supposed to be my future, and I was supposed to love him. Axel has blown it all to smithereens. Since the day I laid eyes on the long-haired boy in English Lit, he has embarrassed and humiliated me, made me uncomfortable, and taken me into the unknown.

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