Bitter Truths: A college enemies to lovers romance (The Bitter Series Book 2) by Nina Lincoln

Author:Nina Lincoln [Lincoln, Nina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

You showed me the light and then cast me into darkness.

GRIFFIN

I’m sitting on the couch glaring holes into Max, who’s perched on the opposite end with an uneasy expression and sweat rolling down his forehead. Yeah, he should feel fucking uncomfortable. He’s lucky I didn’t beat his ass, although apparently, someone else did the honors for me.

Max has a black eye, bruised jaw, and when he grimaces at me, his lip splits open, and he licks the blood away.

Ignoring the pulse of rage, I look away because I can’t stand to look at his lying fucking face. Fuck. Is this how Halsey feels when she looks at me?

Thankfully, Halsey comes in with an intense look of concentration on her face, tearing me from my painful fucking thoughts. She glances up with an absent smile before her head whips back around, and she stares between us with wide eyes.

Her pretty gaze skims over me quickly before she looks at Max, and I clench my hand into a fist when she steps forward, and says, “Max, what’s happened? What’s going on?”

He’s wearing a sling, and I spy a bandage on his arm, but other than that, it’s hard to glean if he has any other injuries. But the fucker deserves every bruise he has and more.

“Are you okay?” she asks into the silence, and I look between them grimly.

“I’m fine, Hals. Just a few bumps and bruises,” he says softly, giving her a look before glancing at me.

I’m already fucking enraged but seeing them give each other secret glances pushes me to the edge. I don’t know what the fuck is going on but knowing Halsey has moved forward with Max but refuses to give me the time of fucking day is so excruciating that my blood is boiling in my veins.

“Are you on drugs again?” I ask brutally, and Halsey gasps, looking to Max for confirmation.

“No, bro. I’m not,” he says softly, passing an embarrassed look over his shoulder to where Aaron still stands quietly.

From the corner of my eye, I see him pass down the hall and go into his room, which is for the best. We don’t need any other people involved in our fucked-up mess.

“Then what’s going on? Why would you go anywhere near that fucker Jason?” I rasp.

Doesn’t he care about Halsey at all? Is there any humanity left in his fucking soul?

“I, it was a mistake,” Max says lamely, and I stand so abruptly Halsey jumps.

“You’re goddamn right it was! What the fuck, Max? Did you think about how Halsey would feel? Did they teach you anything in that fucking place?”

Max flinches, his pale face stricken. Halsey sucks in a deep breath, but I ignore her because I’m so fucking angry, I’m afraid I’ll say something I will regret, and I already have a lifetime of words that I can’t outlive.

“Griffin—” Halsey starts to say, but I swing toward her with a fierce look before curling my mouth in a cold smile.

Is she going to defend him now, too?

“Of course, Max can do no wrong.

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