Make Your Move (Hannaford Prep, #2)

by J. Bree

Again, I adore this girl so fiercely I wish I were a lesbian and I could lock this shit down. Alas, I like dick.

“It was a thank you, Mounty. Jesus, I wasn’t bribing you.” I shrug and take a bite of my apple. “Most people say thank you with words.

“I was born in the same city as Lips. I spend all of my summer breaks there. We have friends in the same circles. When I leave Hannaford, I’m going back there. I’m as much a Mounty as she is.

I mumble and I turn away from him, focusing my eyes back onto the assignment in front of me and trying not to vomit in shame. I'm fucking pathetic. Blaise doesn’t speak again. I mark everything he’s finished and we put together a page of notes for an upcoming test. I manage to calm down and focus on the work enough that I almost forget about how humiliating my reaction to him was.

Lance the Mounty, because I can’t remember the little fuck’s last name to save my damn life, is becoming a problem. He gets to our tutoring sessions before me without fail so I don’t even get a minute to myself to set up. When Ash realizes this, he starts coming earlier as well so when I arrive ten minutes before the start time they’re both already there and being openly hostile toward each other.

“I'm fairly observant, I think sometimes you underestimate that,” he says, his voice warm and dripping like honey, as he pours another shot. I have to clear my throat twice to find my voice. “Oh yeah?” “You’re a virgin, aren’t you?”

It's only in the black light that you can see the ink that covers me. The skeletal structure I've had tattooed to my skin, the jaw opening wide etched in my cheeks with vicious teeth. Every inch of my body is covered in the whorls and arches that imitate the pelt. The black light shows that underneath the human facade I wear the truth of who I am. The Wolf.

I like them all.” Avery pauses then a slow smile spreads across her face as she scoots my shoes toward me. She’s basically dressing me, helping me through my breakdown. “I can work with that. I did tell those guys the only way they would ever have a relationship that worked is if it were with the same girl.”

“If you're trying to warn us off, it's not going to work. We've never agreed to anything as quickly as when we agreed to share you. I'm not planning on wooing you, I'm planning on doing whatever I need to do to get to keep you.” I swallow and he licks his lips. “I want us to keep you. I don't want you all to myself, I want to share you with my best friends and I want you to love every fucking second of it.”