Her Beta Triplets by J L Wilder

Author:J L Wilder [Wilder, J L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J.L. Wilder
Published: 2020-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

HALEY

Haley—

I don’t want to graduate angry at you. I don’t want us to leave here mad at each other. I’m sorry for the things I said to you at the social. I get that you were upset that night.

Can we meet up and talk? I’ll be at the usual spot at lunchtime.

Margaret.

Haley folded the note into the smallest square possible and tucked it into her pocket. It felt like a talisman there, like a charm warding away all the strange and confusing things that had happened to her over the past several days.

Margaret still wants to be friends.

She was surprised by the wave of relief she felt. She had known that the idea of graduating without making up with her friend was making her sad, but she hadn’t realized it was upsetting her this much. Now it felt as though a tremendous weight had been lifted.

She hadn’t seen Margaret at all today. The note had been on her bedside table when she’d woken up this morning, and her friend had already been gone. Now Haley sat in class, struggling to keep her attention on her professor as he discussed the requirements for their final project.

The moment class ended, she burst through the door, fully intending to run straight to the place where she and Margaret liked to meet for lunch.

“Haley!”

The voice was deep and masculine, and it came at her in a whisper. She stopped on a dime, rooted to the spot, feeling strangely like a prey animal that had sensed a threat.

She looked around.

There he was, partially obscured by a tree, his eyes fixed on her. He beckoned her over.

I’m not going over there. This is crazy. It’s the middle of the day, and he’s twenty yards from the center of campus. Anybody could see us.

But even as she thought it, her feet were already moving. Carrying her toward him as though she was powerless to resist.

She didn’t even glance back as she entered the woods. She didn’t even check to see whether anyone was watching, whether she would have any awkward questions to answer later.

Margaret, she thought. Margaret is expecting me. Margaret will notice when I don’t show up.

But it didn’t seem like a real concern. It felt like something out of a story, or maybe a daydream. What was real was Haley and the man in front of her. Everything else had become background noise.

She entered the woods, and he turned and began to walk away from her.

“Wait a minute.” She hurried to catch up. “Where are you going?”

“We need to get away from campus,” he said. “We can’t allow ourselves to be seen.”

By rights, Haley thought, she should have been leading the way. She was the one who knew this campus. But somehow, it felt right to fall into step behind him, to allow him to take the lead.

“I still don’t know who you are,” she realized.

“I’m Jasper,” he said. “You can tell because I’m a little taller than my brothers.”

“That only helps me if you’re standing next to them,” Haley pointed out.

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