Wild Girl: A High School Bully Romance (Slateview High Book 2) by Eva Ashwood

Author:Eva Ashwood [Ashwood, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-16T16:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

Mom was gone by the time the first snow of the season hit.

I remembered how when I was little, she, my father, and I would sit in front of the huge bay windows in our largest sitting room, watching the soft sheets of snow fall and blanket the lawn. Mom was never fond of the cold, but Dad, before I got “too old for childish things,” would occasionally go outside with me and build snowmen and make snow angels.

It was a memory that I couldn’t help but question now. Had any of it been real? Or had it all just been the illusion of a loving family?

Because there wasn’t a damn thing I could think of to reconcile that version of my family with the one I was currently faced with. A father in jail, a mother having an affair that she tried to justify, and me—just trying to figure out where I fit into all of this.

I was certainly no longer the innocent little girl who’d played in the snow with her father, any more than my mom was the dutiful wife who stood by her husband’s side.

I couldn’t stop thinking about what Mom had said, about how I was doing the same thing she was by getting involved with the Lost Boys just like she was hooking up with Mark.

But that wasn’t true. She didn’t understand what the boys and I had been through. She didn’t understand that my relationship with them—

Well. It had started out pretty similarly, hadn’t it? I had agreed to be theirs in exchange for protection.

But I didn’t have a husband sitting in jail. I wasn’t doing this to make myself feel better and pretending it was some selfless act. Mom was using Mark, and he was using her right back. But the Lost Boys and I weren’t using each other. We were… giving ourselves to each other.

What I felt for them was real. More real than anything else in my life had ever been.

Maybe what Mom felt was real too… but it wasn’t love. She’d said it herself. It was nothing more than a need for security and wealth. An attempt to cling to what she’d once had.

Shaking my head, I snapped the book I’d been trying to read shut. I couldn’t concentrate on fiction when my reality was already so insane I could barely handle it. Mom was gone for the winter holiday. School was out, exams over, snow was falling outside, and I was in here, moping.

I rolled over onto my stomach and grabbed my phone off the rickety nightstand.

ME: Hey, wanna come over? I’m bored.

It didn’t take too long before he answered.

BISHOP: Oh? You wanna be entertained? ;)

ME: Hush. Just come over. Bring the guys with you.

I pushed off my bed, fluffing my hair a little so it looked less like bedhead and more like “it’s messy because I did it on purpose.”

It didn’t take long for the boys to arrive; they’d probably all been at Bishop’s already. I let them in almost as soon as the knock came at the door, not even caring how eager it made me look.

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