Knockout Queen: A Dark High School Romance (The Heights Crew Book 4) by E. M. Moore

Author:E. M. Moore [Moore, E. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-02T16:00:00+00:00

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By the time the next day rolls around, all of the quiet and sense of belonging we’d found with one another on the previous day slowly fades. We’re awoken by Johnny’s phone ringing, a shrill alarm in the early morning hours of the peace we were able to achieve. Johnny’s muscles tense, and from that first moment, I realize that what we’d all worked for last night is now gone. We’re on K’s time again. The perimeter of our bubble has burst. Our facade cracked. We’ll be together at the end of all of this, but we need to cut off the cancer, and right now, that cancer is Kingston Marx.

Johnny runs his hands through his dark hair and throws the phone down on the bed. Johnny and Oscar slept next to me on Oscar’s bed while Magnum and Brawler took the floor. For all of Johnny’s talk about it being awkward, everyone just kind of fell into place in those spots like it was as natural as could be. I’m not delusional enough to think it would stay that way if Oscar and Johnny always get to sleep next to me, but at least this first night of cohabitation went well.

Oscar stirs with a grunt. Magnum has been awake for a while, and Brawler and I have been holding one another’s hand for the last half an hour, mine dangling off the very edge of the bed and his holding fiercely to mine.

The door to Oscar’s room opens, and Magnum appears. He’s already dressed in his tactical outfit, ready for the day. I can’t see it, but I’m sure he has his gun slid into the waistband of his pants, ready for anything that might come up.

Johnny yawns, his black hair sticking out in every which way. “We have to get to the tower.”

“Meeting?” Magnum asks.

Johnny nods. Then, he gazes around the room, stopping to stare at each one of the guys, including me. “All of us.”

This must be the big meeting Magnum alluded to yesterday. We’re all in this now, and we’re getting pulled deeper in by the day. “Do you know what his plan is?”

“Not exactly,” Johnny says.

The taut lines of his jaw says that what he does know, he’s not excited about. Yesterday, we were able to put all of this to the side and enjoy the day, but today, it all comes crashing back on us. It’s the moment the water recedes just before the huge tsunami devastates cities.

An overwhelming sense of fierce protection surges inside me. I squeeze Brawler’s hand one last time and then scoot toward the end of the bed. I start pulling clothes on over the bra and underwear I slept in and then pull my hair up in a ponytail. Around me, the guys start getting ready, too. None of us are going to let anything happen to each other. They couldn’t even kick me out of this plan if they wanted to. Whatever they’re involved in, I’m involved in.

After grabbing a quick bite to eat in Oscar’s kitchen, we head to the car.

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