Cruel Betrayal: A Dark Bully Romance (The Kings of Crestmoore Academy, Book 2) by Elle East

Author:Elle East [East, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

The next day, I was walking down the hallways alone. I didn’t get Dean because I needed some time by myself to think. And the halls were crowded with students, so there was no way someone was going to attack me again. I felt safe… until Grayson came up to me.

I groaned. I didn’t want to deal with him at the moment.

He had his patented smirk on his lips. His dark brown hair was messy today and hung over one eye. He’d been sporting a new design shaved into his undercut since the beginning of the year. I liked it more than last year’s pattern. This one was made up of subtle geometric shapes.

He brushed his hair back from his face with a tattooed hand. His nose ring caught the light. He took me in with his eyes, up-and-down, and his cheeks hollowed out as he sucked them in appreciatively. His sharp cheekbones looked even more dangerous when he did that.

He was the one who stopped me, so I wasn’t going to be the first to speak. I waited impatiently until he was done checking me out, an annoyed look on my face that he seemed to relish when he finally looked at it.

“How are you doing?” he asked.

“Fine,” I answered curtly.

Grayson pushed my buttons like no one else—and seemed to get off on it.

“You shouldn’t be walking the halls alone.”

“I’m safer alone than with any of you,” I shot back.

“Were you with any of us when you got pushed off the boat yesterday?” he asked snarkily.

“No, but…” I was at a loss of what to say.

He was right. The only reason I was still alive was because the three of them had saved me. Why would they push me off the boat just to risk their own lives? Dean had said they’d gotten cold feet at the last-minute when they realized they could actually be charged with murder, but that didn’t seem plausible to me—wait a minute.

“How did you know I was pushed?” I asked suspiciously. “That girl said she saw me slip and fall over the edge.”

He shook his head slightly, as his dark eyes stared into mine. I found it so hard to tell if he was lying. I used to live in a rough part of town where my survival had relied on my ability to read people. It was a skill I thought I’d mastered and was proud of, but the Kings were something else. I couldn’t read them properly, and I hated it. They had tricked me last year, and I’d been too dumb to realize it.

“It’s pretty fucking obvious you didn’t slip. Those railings were too high, and even if they weren’t, the deck wasn’t icy enough for that to happen.”

“Who did it then?” I asked.

“We don’t know,” he answered.

I couldn’t read him. I couldn’t tell if he was lying or not, and it was frustrating as hell.

“Was it you?” I asked point-blank.

I watched his usually mischievous eyes grow noticeably darker in anger.

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