Why I Loathe Sterling Lane by Ingrid Paulson

Author:Ingrid Paulson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sara Wolf;Stephanie Perkins;enemies to lovers;Kasie West;high school;alpha male;Simone Elkeles
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-01-25T05:00:00+00:00

Reason 17:

Just when I think we’ve reached

the bottom of the dark hole

of depravity that is his heart,

he digs down even deeper.

After we smuggled the car out of the dorm, we hid it among the construction equipment on the far side of the gymnasium. It was surprisingly light—antique British Mini Coopers were more like go-karts, a far cry from today’s more substantial American models.

The school was installing the new gymnasium roof that had swallowed Cole’s first fund-raising efforts. Wooden crates of tools and a yellow Caterpillar excavator were poised for action the next morning. It wasn’t likely anyone would venture into the roped-off area until the construction team arrived at dawn. That gave us ample time and space to reattach the side-view mirrors and inflate the tires.

Finally, the last teacher waddled across the parking lot to their car. The only vehicles remaining were those owned by the handful of students with permission to keep them on campus.

“I’ll park the Mini in the back of the lot,” Cole said. “You guys go to my room, so you won’t be implicated if I’m caught.”

“Why would you think we’d do that?” I asked. “I’m not saddling you with my problems.”

“I’m already in deep shit,” he said. “There’s not much that’ll get me off the hook anyway. It makes the most sense for me to take the risk.”

“No,” I pressed. “This is my problem. Let me handle it.”

“Nothing’s just your problem,” Cole said. “I know I’ve been a bad brother lately. I’ve said some pretty harsh things. Just let me do this.”

“You haven’t been a bad brother.” His words sent my heart soaring through the stratosphere. I’d been lonely; I’d missed him. And I couldn’t believe he was finally back. “And I will get you off the hook if it’s the last thing I do. I won’t let you get expelled.”

“Fine.” He smiled triumphantly. “I didn’t want to play this card, but the fact of the matter is you can’t drive stick. We’re way more likely to get caught if you lurch your way into the parking lot, stalling every five feet, or if you come with me and we’re piling out of this piece of junk like it’s a clown car.”

As much as I hated to admit it, Cole had won. Rule 1 grumbled a little—it was my job to protect Cole, not the other way around.

“Just give us five minutes to get into position,” Parker said. “Harper and I can watch from my room and text Kendall to run interference in case anyone comes across the quad. If we call you, it means abort the mission.”

Cole nodded.

It took Parker and me less than five minutes to reach his room. I had to practically jog to keep up with his long-legged pace.

And once inside his room, I sincerely wished I was anyplace but. It was an absolute mess.

“You collect these?” I asked, picking up one of the protein bar wrappers littering the surface of his desk. A pile of laundry was rapidly decomposing next to his open closet door.

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