Wicked Beginnings by L A Cotton

Author:L A Cotton [Cotton, L A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Delesty Books
Published: 2017-10-04T18:30:00+00:00

A night away from the Stone-Prince house was exactly what I needed. For a few hours, I’d been able to shut it all off.

Dad.

The past…

Summer.

The present…

Maverick.

The tensions, secrets and lies that were slowly eating away at me like poison. And for those few precious hours, I’d been a normal teenage girl hanging out with her friend. We’d rented a movie off Netflix and ordered pizza. Laurie even broke out a bottle of her mum’s wine and we sipped Chianti while giggling every time Channing Tatum’s perfect arse filled the screen. It was nice. Fun, even. But the next day at school, when my eyes landed on Maverick across the hallway, I knew something was wrong. His friends laughed and joked around him but his attention was elsewhere. His jaw clenched as his hardened gaze, the one I’d come to recognise, searched for something.

Or someone.

It happened so fast.

One minute he was standing there, the next he was gone, storming through the huddles of kids, while his friends stared after him, confusion shining in their eyes. I slammed my locker shut and went after him. I knew I shouldn’t care about whatever he was doing—whoever he had his sights set on—but the same girl who stumbled across him on the beach last summer, refused to let me walk the other way.

When I turned the corner, my feet skidded to a halt as I watched him wrap his hand around a shaggy-haired boy's throat and slam him against the wall with such force it echoed down the hall.

“Maverick!” Summer yelled, panic flooding her voice. I rushed to her side and slipped an arm around her shoulder, hugging her into me.

“Touch my sister again and you're dead, got it? Dead!” His free hand collided with the wall and we both winced.

“Maverick, stop, stop, you're hurting him.” Summer tried to get to him, but I pulled her back. He looked possessed, anger pulsating from him.

“Maverick,” I said calmly but loud enough for it to be clear. “Think this through.”

The poor boy trapped between the wall and Maverick's arm looked ready to crap himself, his eyes wide with terror.

“Maverick,” I repeated and this time his head moved a fraction. He didn't meet my eyes, but I knew I had his attention. “You need to let him go.”

It was the wrong thing to say. Maverick's arm pushed against Nick's throat, and the boy clawed at his human restraint, gasping for breath. Maverick was unaffected. He didn't budge, didn't flinch a muscle as Nick thrashed against him. He was completely lost to his rage.

“I should beat the shit out of you right here. What the fuck were you thinking?” His voice was raw with anger as Nick spluttered and choked out a string of garbled words that had Summer sobbing into my shoulder as her body shook with fear.

“What the … Fuck.” Kyle appeared out of nowhere and rushed straight over to Maverick and Nick. He was too calm. As if he was used to dealing with this version of Maverick all the time.

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