Wicked Games by L. A. Cotton

Author:L. A. Cotton [Cotton, L. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: wicked bay, high school romance, sports romance, basketball romance, forbidden romance, angst
Publisher: Delesty Books
Published: 2018-06-21T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Lo

“KYLE?” HIS NAME PIERCED the air; and when he turned slowly to meet my wide gaze I knew.

“What is it? What’s—”

“Rick, he...”

I lurched forward, snatching the phone from his hand. “Hello, who is this?”

“Lo?” An unfamiliar voice said. “This is Darnell, Maverick’s—”

“I know who you are. What happened?”

“He’s okay, but I didn’t know who else to call.”

“Darnell.” I inhaled a shaky breath. “What. Happened?”

“He took a beating. Shit, I should’ve stopped it, I should have...”

“Where is he?” My voice sounded so calm as if it was detached from the rest of me. As if I was hovering over myself watching the scene play out.

“We took him back his dorm room. We didn’t want to—”

“You did the right thing. I’ll be there as soon as I can.” A violent shudder rolled through me as I remembered another time. Maverick at the warehouse bloody and broken. It has been one of the worst moments of my life.

And now I had to do it all again.

I ended the call and thrust the phone at Kyle. “Lo, I—”

“Not now. I need to go. Are you coming or staying?” All I could think was I had to get to him. I had to get to Maverick.

“As if you even need to ask. Let me find Laurie and ask her if she can make sure Kiera gets home.”

“I’ll take them,” a voice said from the shadows.

“Trey, man, what are you doing back here?”

“I saw you take the call. Had a feeling it would be Maverick. Is he okay?”

Kyle raked a hand through his hair and released a shaky breath, his concerned gaze sliding to mine. “It’s not good but he’ll live.”

“Fuck.”

“Yeah.” He turned his attention back on Trey. “You sure you're okay to take them home?”

“Consider it done.”

“Thanks, man.”

“We need to go, now,” I said, digging Kyle’s key out of my purse.

The two of them spoke some more and then Kyle slipped his arm around me, steering me away from the house and toward where he’d parked the Jeep.

“I can’t believe this is happening again,” I said, my teeth chattering. It wasn’t cold, but I couldn’t stop them.

“He’s okay, Lo. Darnell said he’s okay.”

Now.

He was okay now.

But how far was Zac Lowell going to take this hazing thing?

I went around to the driver’s side and yanked open the door when Kyle’s voice stopped me dead. “Cous,” he said. “For as much as I don’t want to get a DUI, you can’t drive.”

Shit. He was right. But my brain went into autopilot the second I realised the call was about Maverick. It didn’t consider how I would get to SU, just that I had to get there.

“Keys.” He held out his palm waiting for me to relinquish them.

“Are you sure you can—”

“I had two beers. We’re good. Besides, he needs you.”

I swallowed over the lump in my throat and went around the passenger’s side. Once inside, I gripped the seat belt until my knuckles turned white. It was all too good to be true. Maverick getting into SU and escaping his father’s toxic ways.

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