Wild War by Laurelin Paige

Author:Laurelin Paige [Paige, Laurelin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781953520319
Publisher: Paige Press LLC

Fourteen

Cade

I turned off the water, grabbed a towel from the stack outside the boy’s shower, and tied it around my waist. It had taken fifteen minutes before my fingers and nose didn’t feel frostbitten from being outside, but all in all, it had been the easiest punishment Stark had ever given me. I would hands down choose an hour running six miles versus five minutes with the whip, any day, no matter the toll to my body.

While the physical pain had been more tolerable, I was still wrestling with what it had done to my psyche. I’d thought I’d already seen the worst of my stepfather, or imagined it, and yet I was still somehow surprised by his reaction to today’s events.

I’d known he was a monster.

But even monsters protected their own children, didn’t they?

Guess I’d been wrong because all Birch had gotten was what I’d given him, and in the end, that wasn’t that much. I’d hit him hard enough to bleed, but the nurse had come into Stark’s office while I’d been in there and told him his nose hadn’t been broken. Disappointing. He should have been expelled for assault. He should have been in jail for what he’d tried to do to his daughter.

I would have killed the guy if Jolie was in any way mine.

I wasn’t sure I wouldn’t have killed him today if I hadn’t been stopped. I sure fucking wanted to.

I shook my head of the thought, drops of water splattering from my hair to the tile, then walked out of the shower area toward the lockers.

Despite all the hard surfaces, the locker room was strangely peaceful when it wasn’t filled with an entire gym class. I was actually glad Stark had suggested I clean up there after my run instead of going home. Of course, he’d passed it off as doing me a favor, and I was sure he’d lord it over me anytime he got a chance. How he’d gone soft on me. How there was no other student who could get away with violence and still be enrolled. How he’d have to think up some way to explain his leniency to Birch’s parents.

He definitely wasn’t done punishing me for this.

I forced myself not to dwell on it. It was no good wasting the present by worrying about what he’d do to me tomorrow, and honestly, he’d find something to do to me whether he thought I deserved it or not.

But when I wasn’t thinking about what cruelty might come next, my head went in an even worse direction—Jolie.

Jolie, Jolie, Jolie. I didn’t even think of her as Julianna anymore. Ever since that kiss, it was like she’d changed in my head, and there was no way to change her back. I knew too much about her and couldn’t unknow it. I knew how good I could be to her. I knew how good she could be to me, and it drove me insane knowing how bad it would be for both of us if we tried to get together.

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