Coyote (Hawks MC Next Generation #1) - Lila Rose Page 0,3
me, and pushed me forcefully forward. I stumbled, gasping. Tears pooled in my eyes as pain spread over my back. I managed to stay on my feet somehow, until another shove came at my side. My body swayed. My arms windmilled wildly to try and stay on my feet, but it was too late. I slammed into the floor, losing my breath, knocking my chin, and hurting my wrist and hip.
My bladder chose that moment to let go. Wetness pooled between my legs just as the lights got switched on. I wiped at my eyes as I looked up. I could feel wetness on my chin.
Five girls stood around me, laughing. They backed up when Ron moved in with some of his friends. All smiling or chuckling.
I didn’t move my eyes from Ron, who was smirking down at me, even when a door banged open and someone shouted, “Look, she pissed herself.”
More laughter. More hurtful words.
“What the fuck is goin’ on?” was yelled. People were shoved aside, and then Cody Marcus, the older brother to one of the girls in my year, stood looking down at me.
Within a second, he took me in and then faced the group. “Who did this?”
“Come on, man, we were just messin’ around,” someone said.
“Who fuckin’ did this?” he demanded, his tone low and harsh.
“Cody, don’t worry about it. We’re just teaching her a lesson,” one of the girls said.
“Yeah? What lesson is that?” Cody asked, crossing his arms over his chest.
“It’s nothing,” Ron barked.
“What damn lesson?” Cody demanded.
I needed to get out of there, needed to leave and end this humiliation.
Tears formed, and I bit down on my bottom lip to keep the sob inside. I’d wet my pants like a toddler. Everyone saw. Everyone. And it would be all over school by Monday.
I grabbed at my tee, at my chest, misery covering me, filling me.
“That she’s nothing but shit and she’ll never have a chance with Ron,” another girl said.
They all piped up saying more. How I was pathetic, a loser, fat, ugly…. It went on until Cody roared, “Enough.” As I slowly sat, I ignored the pain, the shivering, and caught Cody shake his head before he said, “You thought it’d be okay to use her interest in you to get her alone and make her think she had a chance with you? To trap her, trick her, and then fuck with her?”
No one had said it, but Cody was smart; he understood what went down even without all the information. I was surprised Ron and his friends just didn’t tell Cody to get lost, but then again, Cody was in year twelve. Everyone looked up to him, and everyone also knew who his parents were. His dad, more importantly. Talon Marcus. President of the Hawks MC, one of the local motorcycle gangs.
Ron rolled his eyes. “She doesn’t have a right to—”
“Stop,” Cody ordered. Ron did. Cody chuckled. “I think it’s time I teach you a goddamn lesson.” He moved so fast Ron didn’t stand a chance. The first hit had the girls screaming and running. With the second hit, another of Ron’s mates tried to intervene and he caught a fist to the face. Ron tried to fight back, and Cody knocked his hands away as if they were nothing. A guy I didn’t know crept up behind Cody.
“Watch out,” I called, then slammed my mouth shut. At least Cody heard me, turned, and sank a fist into the guy’s gut.
I realised it was the perfect time for me to escape. My legs shook as I got to my feet. I sniffed and took a breath through the pain. I couldn’t look at my jeans; I didn’t want to see how wet they were. Instead, I got out of there before the fighting ended. Before Cody annihilated them all. I made sure to stop by my locker to grab my jacket and tied it around my waist. Guilt stabbed at me for leaving Cody, who’d come in and saved me, but I couldn’t face him. I couldn’t face anyone. I took out a piece of paper and wrote quickly, Thank you for your help. I’m sorry you got dragged into it. On my way out of school, I slipped it into Cody’s locker.
When Mum saw me that afternoon and I broke down telling her everything that had happened, she promised I wouldn’t have to go back and face anyone at school because I’d already been through enough in my life. The