Tryst Six Venom by Douglas Penelope

Author:Douglas, Penelope
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penelope Douglas LLC
Published: 2021-06-02T16:00:00+00:00

I ALMOST REACH for Clay’s hand, but I stop myself. Swinging the door open, I bolt out of the room, making sure she’s behind me, and we run down the staircase, hearing a commotion of chatter, laughing, and squealing as the horn screams into the night outside.

Clay straightens her clothes and fixes her hair. “What is that?”

“It’s the old storm siren.”

“It’s still operating?”

Obviously. I peer out the window as we descend, seeing waves rising high and crashing onto the beach. Darts of rain spear the windows, the staircase now empty as everyone evacuates, not so much because people are scared, but because rain means the canal floods and a lot of rain means the tracks close in case a train needs to break schedule to get out of Dodge.

Anyone from St. Carmen needs to get home now or they’re here all night.

Bodies pour out of the lighthouse, running to cars, and Clay and I stop, looking around. Dallas, Trace, and Iron came with me, and I look past the lightkeeper’s house, down the dirt road running parallel to the beach, seeing my brother’s truck.

“Oh my God,” Clay breathes out, covering her head, rain plastering our clothes to us.

I turn to her, wondering if we’re saying goodbye now, but then I decide for her. “Get in my brother’s truck.”

She’s staying.

I walk and she better fucking follow.

We both run and then stop, cut off by the crowd running in every direction as they bump into each other and slip on the ground. Headlights light up the night, engines peel off, kicking up the inch of rain that’s accumulated already, and I see Dallas and Iron making their way for the truck.

But then I hear someone scream, “I don’t care!”

Krisjen stands opposite her shitty boyfriend, throwing her phone and then her arms, getting in his face and challenging him.

“I couldn’t care less!” she goes on.

He advances on her, the back door of his car open and a couple of guys from our school inside.

“Post them!” Krisjen tells him, the rain making her white crop top see-through as her hair hangs in her face. “Post the videos and my texts and everything! Fuck it all! I don’t care!”

He grabs her hair, and I jerk to attention. What the hell?

“Liv, come on!” I hear Iron at my side.

But I ignore him, seeing Clay head over to her friend ahead of me. “Milo!” she warns.

But he pays Clay no mind. “You don’t care, huh?” Milo growls in Krisjen’s face.

“What’s he talking about?” Clay yells at Krisjen.

“He took a video of me ages ago,” she chokes out as he yanks her in by the hair. “The little bitch didn’t like me dancing with another man tonight, so he posted it online.”

“He did what?” Clay barks, kind of forgetting she did the same thing to me, but whatever.

“And she doesn’t care,” Milo repeats her words. “Doesn’t care at all.”

“Nope, post them all!” she growls, defiant. “It’ll be the best way to get rid of you!”

And it happens before I can leap—his hand whips across her face, sending her spinning and falling into the car.

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