Snare (Falling Stars #3) by Sadie Grubor

Author:Sadie Grubor [Grubor, Sadie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01B0UACNS
Publisher: Book Nerd Revelations
Published: 2016-03-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Xavier

Damn, mean ass woman!

Waiting for my cab to the airport is the worst fucking torture. Instead of spending time with Sid, I'm in the hotel bar drinking with Mel.

He tried to start a conversation once, but quickly discovered his mistake. Now, he sits quietly on my right, nursing a beer.

"Xavier…" I turn at the female voice and raise a brow.

"What can I do for you, Liza?"

Turning back to the bar, I catch Mel ogling her and snap my fingers in his face.

"Hey, she's taken," I say, and see Jackson in my peripheral. "And I'm pretty sure you don't want to deal with that," I say, shifting my eyes to Jack. Mel follows and blanches. "Exactly."

I feel her presence on my left before she speaks.

"Sid—"

"Is she alright?" I interrupt, giving her my full attention.

She gives a quick nod. "Yeah, she just left for the airport."

My furrowed brow sparks her to continue.

"Her flight is earlier than ours."

She's going back to Pennsylvania.

"Gotcha," I quip, turning to Mel and shooing him off on a task.

"She's going to kill me, but I think you should know." Her words grab my curiosity.

"What's that?" I spin on the stool, leaving one arm on the bar.

"Paul…" she starts.

Every muscle in my body tenses. I hate this bastard and I've never met him.

"He's not the reason she has a hard time with…people." She licks her lips and twists her fingers. "Fuck, she's going to kill me."

"Actually, I'd rather her tell me, but I'm not someone she wants to talk to at the moment," I grumble.

Why did I walk away? I should've stayed and stood my ground with her. Leaving her was a pussy move.

"But she won't," Liza blurts, putting her hands up to stop my no shit response. "Not because it's you. She doesn't talk about it. Even hinting at it will make her shut down."

Worry twists my gut.

"What the fuck happened to her, Liza?"

Every terrible thing a guy can do to a woman flips through my head like a horror movie.

She closes her eyes, takes a deep breath, and begins.

"To make a super long story short for this conversation, Sid was unknowingly videoed in college having sex at a party."

"He rape her?" The hard edge to my question makes her blink.

"No." She shakes her head. "Sex was consensual."

I relax, but only a bit.

"Go on," I encourage.

"Sid has always been super smart, quick with numbers and technology. It's like she spoke computer before English. In high school, there was no grading curve for her classes and the same went for college. Her professor once challenged his class to hack his computer. He'd built fire halls, or something, and a ton of them. She cracked it in less than a day, and after that, she was his pet. When people wanted her to change grades, she refused. When she became the first freshmen teacher's assistant, people in line for that were pissed off."

Reaching past me, she grabs my glass and drains it. Her face contorts at the burn of the tequila.

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