Wicked Sins: A Taboo Dark High School Bully Romance by Logan Fox

Author:Logan Fox [Fox, Logan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark is the Night
Published: 2020-03-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty

Candy

There’s a shuffle behind me, and I turn and smile up at Wayne as he comes through the sliding doors and heads toward me. I had no idea what to do with myself after the funeral, so I came to sit on the patio and watch the sunlight dancing on the pool’s surface.

Is it morbid of me, staring at the place where Emma died?

“How are you feeling?” I ask, my mouth turning down at the corners as Josiah’s father shuffles awkwardly over to the patio set.

He lowers himself with a grimace onto the sofa beside me and lets out a long sigh. “I’d feel much better soon as these damn painkillers kick in.”

I stretch out my hand, but retract it before I can touch him. “I’m so sorry,” I say.

“Nothing you did,” he says. There’s a line between his brows that’s been there ever since Josiah shoved him to the ground at the funeral.

Which I’m guessing has nothing to do with the pain he’s experiencing.

“I can’t believe he did that,” I say quietly, shaking my head as I turn to face the water again. “I mean, I get he’s upset, but—”

“He didn’t know.”

“Not to shove you?” I say through a bitter laugh. When I face Wayne, there’s a shadow in his eyes that makes me swallow and huddle in on myself a little. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to—”

“He doesn’t know about my injury. We don’t…it’s not something we discuss, us boys.”

“Oh.” My hands grip each other in my lap. Why wouldn’t Josiah’s father have told him about his slipped disk? For one, it would have prevented what had just happened at the funeral.

Or would it?

I’ve never seen such open rage on Josiah’s face before. Granted, I’ve only known him a few months, but still…it’s as if that was a first for everyone in the family.

He really loved Emma, that much I know, something I’d never really thought about until today. They had some kind of connection, something that went deeper than just brother and sister. It was like it was them against the world.

What I wouldn’t give to know that feeling. I’ve never had camaraderie with anyone like that—not even with my own mother.

“I heard there was trouble at your new school,” Wayne says.

I stiffen at the tone in his voice. “Trouble?”

“Candace, we sent you to that place for a reason.”

I bite the inside of my lip so hard that a bit of skin peels off into my mouth. What the hell am I supposed to say? “It wasn’t my fault,” falls out of my mouth.

“No?” Wayne faces me, but I keep my eyes trained on the pool. “How so?” The derision in his voice makes me want to disappear into the couch.

“I didn’t know I was being medicated.”

Wayne laughs. “That’s your excuse?”

I spin to face him. The movement makes the bruise on my jaw ache a little. “It’s not an excuse. If I hadn’t been doped up on—”

“Don’t you dare take that tone with me, girl.” Wayne

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