Broken Pretty Things: A High School Bully Romance (Torrent Bay Academy Book 1) by Amber Faye

Author:Amber Faye [Faye, Amber]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

“Come in here, kids. We need to have a talk.”

Pietro’s voice is clipped, stern. Dimitri, Ulla and I just arrived home — I did kind of listen to Gunnar and make sure to stick with other people when I left the school — and Pietro was waiting in the doorway leading into the dining room, arms folded across his chest and face tight.

“Me also?” Ulla checks. Pietro shakes his head and dismisses her upstairs with a wave of his hand. She shoots me a look and climbs the stairs, out of view. I turn and blink up at Dimitri, then back over at Pietro, who is leading us into the dining room.

“What’s up?” I ask. It could be any number of things, I realize, adrenaline surging. My mom is waiting, fingers interlaced, at the table. Her lips are a thin line. We know you hooked up with a boy in your room. Was that it?

Or maybe, We know someone broke in and then threatened you.

Potentially, and maybe the worst option: Did you really expose yourself in front of a cafeteria full of students?

Oh, god. The list is so endless that it would be better for me to stop guessing.

“Mom?” I say, and she silently gestures for me to sit down at the table opposite her. Groaning, I lower myself into the chair. Dimitri sits down too, looking equally as confused. Is this about what he did to me on day one? That feels like so long ago, though, that—

“We will just get straight to the point,” Pietro says in his best parent voice, sitting down beside my mom and gently resting his arm on her shoulders. “Two things. Good news, bad news. Good news first.” He speaks in an efficient, terse way that I appreciate. Because he’s going to get straight to the point and put me out of my misery here.

“We’re getting married,” my mom says, eyes sparkling as she gazes up at him. Dimitri and I actually exchange a look, bonded in this moment.

“Cool, congrats,” Dimitri says.

“Dimi,” Pietro warns.

“What? I said fuckin—”

“What’s the bad news?” I interrupt, eyes fixed on my mother. She avoids my gaze, pressing a hand to her chest like I’m making her feel unwell. I spy the sparkling ring for the first time. It’s no surprise they’re getting married — I had pretty much assumed that was why we were moving in with him. But it’s nice he proposed, I guess.

“You say it, please,” she murmurs to her fiance. He lets out a heavy sigh.

“I will cut to the chase,” he rumbles, and for the first time I hear that he has an accent. Wow, we’ve pretty much exchanged seven words since we met. “You two. We know. And it has to stop.”

I nod along, expecting more. “You mean how …” I’m about to talk about how Dimitri joined forces with my old friends to make me miserable, but then my mother sucks in a breath and lets out a sob.

“Wait, what are you talking about?” Dimitri asks his father.

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