To The End (Hannaford Prep, #4)

by J. Bree

I roll my eyes. “And you’re worried because you think I’ll be angry? Aves, the whole fucking world is going to shit. I’m sure the Boar called and said the same damn thing to him. I don’t give a fuck what you say to him, he already knows where I stand.” Her shoulders roll back. “What? Where do you stand?” My eyes flick to the door as if Ash will have some sort of psychic premonition that I’m about to talk in Atticus’ favor and storm in here to climb up my ass… in a not fun and sexy way. “I told him he has my vote. If you two sort out your issues, then I vote him into the family. Harley did the same.” The coffee cup in her hands slips to splash coffee on the college brochures in front of her, but she barely notices. What the fuck is going on in her head today? “Harley did the same? Harley Arbour gave Atticus his vote? My cousin, Harley?” I stand to grab a towel and mop up. She just stares at me blankly until I sigh and answer her. “Uh yeah, the only Harley we both know. Atticus explained himself and we both… like him. Kind of. I mean, I don’t want to kill him anymore so that counts as liking him, right?” Avery grabs a handful of ruined brochures and shoves them into the bin, grabbing her cleaning supplies and getting to work on the mess she’s made. I watch her for a minute, moving my books out of her way and saving what I can from her destructive cleaning wrath. “I just feel like there’s this… gap between us now. Like, the guy I’ve been waiting around for, hoping he’d notice...