TORMENT: A College Bully Romance (Bully Series) by Chloe Fischer

Author:Chloe Fischer [Fischer, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Odette had begged Marcus not to have her go on the trip to Ohio.

“Please,” she cajoled. “I’ll do anything else but go with the Wolverines on tour.”

“It’s one weekend,” the editor-in-chief said flatly and Odette could already tell that she was losing the battle. “After that tripe article you wrote about Michigan fans, you owe me already. You’re in no position to ask to be let off the hook on this.”

To her horror, Odette felt tears of frustration building in her eyes.

Oh my God. If you cry in front of him…

She steeled herself, forcing the waterworks to stay where they were.

“Marcus,” she tried again. “I can watch the game and live tweet the updates. I can—”

“You can do that too—from Columbus.”

She didn’t know why all the men in her life were making it so miserable those days but Odette felt like she was on a sinking ship when it came to winning any of them over.

“And you still didn’t get that exclusive you swore you were getting with Darien Fowler, what, two weeks ago now?”

She flushed at the reminder but she knew her blush had nothing to do with the interview and everything to do with what had happened the day she’d tried to get it.

And thank God we didn’t let that go too far, she thought, even though she knew it had gone far enough. After he’d left that day and Tempy had exhausted her diatribe, Odette had been left with a terrible sense of shame. A part of her wondered if she hadn’t tried to seduce Darien if only to get him on her good side. After all, she had gone in for the first kiss.

But she knew that attraction she felt for him had nothing to do with guile…did it?

She was a jumble of emotions as she boarded the bus, forsaking the idea of driving, knowing that it would be too easy an escape.

When she’d seen Darien sitting alone, looking outside the window, a spark of compassion had filled her heart for him. He almost seemed vulnerable at that moment and she wanted to know what was going on in his head. After all, he had certainly shown her that he had a decent side to him already.

There was nothing decent about what went on with the two of you, a little voice reminded her but that didn’t stop her from heading toward him. She decided her best course of action was to confront him head on. Avoiding him after what had happened, especially after they were bound to see one another a lot over the next few days, seemed silly.

But now, as she sat alone at her own window seat, she wished she hadn’t attempted to reach out to him at all.

He is an ass. Even Mussolini had his tender moments, I’m sure. I won’t make the mistake of falling for that again.

Yet her new resolve did nothing to alleviate the problem of the exclusive interview she’d promised Marcus nor about the tension that was sure to build throughout the weekend.

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