Leveling The Field (KTS Book 3) by Elise Faber

Author:Elise Faber [Faber, Elise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781637490174
Publisher: Elise Faber
Published: 2021-06-13T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Leo

I was waiting outside Hannah’s quarters.

Had been waiting, for almost two hours now.

She hadn’t been in her office, or Lily’s, or Linc’s, or Jesse’s. She wasn’t in the cafeteria or the pool or the shooting range. She almost seemed like she was avoiding me, except . . . why would she be avoiding me?

She didn’t know Jess had asked me to leave.

She didn’t know I was going to.

Right after we figured out who’d shot her.

So I waited, propped against the wall next to Hannah’s room as the hours passed, trying to formulate some sort of plan to track down the traitors in our midst, yet also knowing I had nothing that no one else hadn’t already thought of. I only managed to grow my frustration. It whipped through me, barbed and slicing, and making it nearly impossible for me to breathe.

I’d nearly lost her. No, I had lost her.

And I was the asshole who hadn’t realized what I’d had until I’d lost it.

Not true. Well, not entirely true, because I was only just starting to recognize that I’d shoved Jesse so firmly into a box, into friendship because some part of me understood that just peeking beneath the lid would be a Pandora’s box of emotions that I couldn’t allow to grow.

Just thinking about having her in my life that way made terror rip through me, even more powerful than the pain of never seeing her again.

“At least if I don’t see her, she’ll be safe.”

“Are you sure about that?”

My head jerked up from where I’d been studying the artistic qualities of my shoelaces to see Hannah in front of me. Lily slanted a glance in my direction before disappearing down the hall and into her quarters.

Some secret agent, huh?

I hadn’t even heard them approach.

“I’m leaving.”

A blond brow arched. “What are you doing, Leo?”

I didn’t know. I didn’t fucking know.

My chin dropped to my chest, and I went back to studying my laces. “She wants me to leave, so I’m going.”

“She wants you,” Hannah murmured. “Has wanted you for years.”

I shook my head. “No. I ruined that, and even if I didn’t, Jess and I couldn’t ever—”

“Because she’s not pretty enough for you?”

My anger flashed, and I had her pinned between my body and the wall before I even realized I’d moved. “She is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.” And she was. Maybe I hadn’t recognized that before, maybe I’d been too much of a fucking ostrich to acknowledge it and what my draw to her might mean, had known it was safer if she were my friend and nothing more. And maybe someone else wouldn’t see what I did, but when I looked at Jesse, I thought of moonlight and silver skin, of freckles and a sweet smile, of a strong, smart, kind woman who was burrowed deep into my heart.

Why had I ever thought it would be safe with just friendship?

I was so fucked.

I pressed harder. “Anyone who says differently will have to answer to me.

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