Tempting Hatred: A Dark Bully Romance by Bella King

Author:Bella King [King, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-25T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

School doesn’t stop just because I get wrapped up in some social bullshit. I had classes back to back on Thursday, with little to no breaks in between them. I ran from classroom to classroom, taking notes and wiping any thought of Oliver from my mind. There was simply no time to be thinking about guys.

I slammed back an iced coffee in the morning, but by midday, I was jonesing for another. Heart health be damned. I was going to have what I craved. Between classes that were an hour apart, I hurried out to the coffee shop on campus to get a refill.

It was raining again, but this time I came prepared. I had an elegant black raincoat on with a red and black checkered interior that was sort and warm. It had a hood, but I didn’t wear it unless it was pouring outside, and today was just a light sprinkle.

My matching black rainboots splashed on the pavement as I walked quickly to the coffee shop. I loved the smell of rain, but the warm smell of roasting coffee beans was even better as I approached the shop. Combined, the two smells would make the most kickass candle.

It had been a few days since the incident with Todd, and I hadn’t seen him since. I doubted he wanted anything to do with me anymore, but that was probably for the best. To him, I was trouble, and to me, he was nothing more than a distraction from school.

I pulled open the heavy door to the coffee shop, shaking the droplets of rain off my jacket as I entered. It was warm and smelled wonderful in the shop, the gentle glow of yellow light illuminating the interior. I wished every place was like this.

There were only two people in line, an old man and another student. I got behind them and waited with my coffee thermos clenched tightly in my hand. I felt a little like an addict lining up for my daily fix, expect for this was one I needed several times a day.

I wondered what happened when you reached your tolerance limit for caffeine. Does your heart just explode one day, or could you just keep increasing the amount you consume until you were gulping down whole pots of coffee to no effect? Surely there was an upper limit, but I hadn’t reached it yet.

As I stepped up in line to order, I heard the rumbling of a truck pulling up in the parking lot outside the building. I recognized that sound as Oliver’s truck almost immediately, being iconically shitty in that it sounded like his vehicle was putting out a metric fuck-load of pollution into the air behind it.

“One tall vanilla iced coffee, please,” I announced to the young man behind the counter.

He punched a few buttons on the screen in front of him. “5.99,” he said dryly.

I pulled out the ten dollar bill that Mia had returned to me, sliding it across the counter to him.

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