You're to Blame by Lindsey Iler

Author:Lindsey Iler [Iler, Lindsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: friends to lovers, new adult, Romance, love
Publisher: Lindsey Iler
Published: 2018-01-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Duke

I slip in line behind Charlotte at the campus coffee shop. She senses someone, so she glances over her shoulder and does a double take.

“Hey.” Her eyes are wild and unsure. The barista drags her attention away, and she orders her coffee. Decaf, black. Her coffee order is imbedded into my mind.

Charlotte steps off to the side and blows on the lid of her coffee.

The girl behind the counter smiles when her eyes pass to me in line. I step up and order my black coffee. The way the girl pulls her hair behind her ear, tossing it over her shoulder in a display of catching my attention is obvious. It may have worked for me in the past. Not when Charlotte is standing beside me with that damn stirring straw in her mouth. It’s not even in her coffee cup, so why does she have it?

“Thank you,” I say to the barista, taking the coffee. I grab a sleeve and eye her name and number scribbled on my drink.

Charlotte flicks the cup. “Dolly, huh?” A sarcastic laugh waits on her tongue.

“Seems so.” I shrug. A barista scribbling her name and number on my cup is a normal occurrence. “What brings you to campus?”

“Finishing up some last-minute questions for my interview on Sunday,” Charlotte explains. “What about you?”

At the mention of her interview, my mind goes blank. Since my visit to the warehouse, I haven’t had another run in with Ari.

Everything Jacob and Ari related has been quiet. I’ve managed to keep my hands clean of the whole mess. Lydia put the whole thing into perspective. When I mentioned maybe paying him another visit, she made it clear Ari would take it as a threat and lash out even more. My biggest worry is once Charlotte waltzes through his office doors, he’ll have no choice but to make a move.

“Earth to Duke.” She waves her hand in front of my face.

“Sorry, what?” Focus, Duke.

“Why are you on campus?” Charlotte holds the cup to her mouth. She stills. The perfect curve of her lip distracts me.

Earlier this morning, I ran into Rachel outside of my ‘too early for a Tuesday’ ethics class. She spilled Charlotte would be around campus, catching up on work for the newspaper.

“I was actually looking for you,” I admit, glancing away. “And what interview? I thought you already interviewed Derks.” I’m blunt and crass most days, so this playing dumb about Ari is painful to me.

“I did, which reminds me, I shadow him tomorrow.” She pulls out her phone and clicks her fingers against the screen, glancing up at me every so often. “This interview is for Ari St. James.”

“I’m surprised he agreed to an interview.” Of course, he agreed to one. He’s like a cat chasing a mouse. Charlotte will be batted around the yard before he goes in for the kill. “There has to be someone better to interview. You’re trying to tell me there is no other alumni who stayed around and done good?”

Charlotte shrugs, unsure of where to go with our conversation.

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