One Kind of Wicked: A Reverse Harem Academy Series (The True and the Crown Book 1) by May Dawson

Author:May Dawson [Dawson, May]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-08T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

Everything looks different upside-down. We cross the quiet, wood-lined library without meeting anyone but a shocked-silent librarian, and then Cax jogs down the stairs. He fumbles with the key to the warehouse room for a second.

“Do you maybe want to put me down now?” I demand, not really excited about entering our office ass-first and red-faced.

“Nope,” he says, finally getting the key into the lock. He turns it and then takes a deep breath, steeling himself. “You might want to forgive me now. We’re both in trouble. Might as well be on the same side.”

“Why would we be in trouble?” I demand. I try to straighten, and he finally sets me on my feet, despite what he said. I imagine the cops coming to visit me again, and my stomach tightens. “We were defending ourselves. You tried to talk them down—”

His arm catches my waist, holding me against his body so that I don’t carry much of my own weight on my good leg. The pain radiating from my knee through my thigh and down my shin is so intense now that I can barely catch my breath.

“I should’ve been able to,” he mutters. “They were so angry. They weren’t hearing a word I said.”

You’re the same age my daughter should’ve been. Those words repeat in my brain, filled with hate and grief and longing. A shiver runs down my spine, but not for myself.

“I shouldn’t have come back here.” Airren asked me before what I want now that I’m home. The truth is, I don’t remember what the hell I was imagining when I climbed into that cab. I’d wanted to believe that everything would be fine when I came back, but any damned idiot would have been able to guess otherwise.

Cax’s eyes soften. “Well, I’m glad you’re here.”

I stare back at him, and he adds, “Even though you kicked me.”

“You should’ve listened.”

He shakes his head slightly, his hand palming my cheek. My breath hitches again, but this time, it’s not from the pain.

“Everything you’ve been saying is crazy talk,” he says quietly. “I’m not going to listen to that. You shouldn’t be here, you don’t deserve to be protected—”

“I meant, you should’ve listened to me when I said—” I interrupt hotly, still mad that he carried me.

Cax’s eyes are bright with heat too. Normally, I’d be paralyzed by the anger of a man like this, with the hard wood of the door pressing against my back and his arms pinning me in place. Even though Cax’s body is tense, I’m sure he would never hurt me.

His lips brush against the corner of mine suddenly, and I realize I misunderstood the heat in that gaze.

I turn my mouth into his, but he rests his forehead against mine, breathing out a frustrated sigh.

“I don’t know how we’re going to get through this,” he mutters, to himself more than to me. His hands tighten on my hips, and I wrap my arms around his shoulders, letting him carry my weight.

“Me either,” I whisper.

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