Dare Series Collection - Shantel Tessier Page 0,327

her drink. “I know why he slept with you.”

“Because he wanted to make my sister mad.”

She shakes her head. “It had nothing to do with her and everything to do with you.” I frown. Taking another drink, she smiles at me over the rim of her glass. “So I’ll ask you again. Do you love him?”

DEKE

I stand at my locker with a towel at my bare feet and my jeans pulled up to my hips but still undone. My shirt lies on the bench behind me.

Cole walks up next to me, also fresh out of the shower, and all he’s wearing is a towel draped around his neck. He yanks his locker open and picks up his phone. “Bennett called me.”

“And?” I ask.

He throws his phone back into the locker. “And I missed it. He left me a voicemail. I’ll call him back on the way home.”

I sit down on the bench and put my socks and tennis shoes on as Cole throws his towel down to the floor. He’s still pissy. This morning, Austin wouldn’t even look at him. As I suspected, she woke up pissed when she realized he had broken into Lilly’s room and carried her up to theirs. If I didn’t know she loved him, I’d half expect his clothes to be on fire in the front yard when we get back to the house.

The guys walk around the locker room after swim practice. We’ve just finished our showers. I’m ready to get the hell home and go to bed. I’m tired. I can’t survive on no sleep like Cole does.

“What did you do last night?” a guy by the name of Peter asks his friend Braden.

Cole and I aren’t close to the guys on the swim team like we were back in Collins. We keep our distance. They don’t try to be our friends, and we don’t go out of our way to be theirs.

“Seth came over,” he answers, sitting down on the bench a few spots down from me. “He brought his hot little girlfriend with him.”

Cole looks over his shoulder at me. I ignore him and keep listening to the guys.

“Damn, the high school bitch he’s fucking?” the guy asks.

He nods.

“Fuck, I’d be all over that every chance I got.”

He laughs. “Yeah, it was weird, though. She just sat there and drank while playing video games. They didn’t even talk much.”

Cole throws his towel into his locker and steps into his jeans without even bothering with his boxers.

“You should have jumped on that. I bet he would have shared her with you. I hear they have an open relationship.”

My hands fist. Is that what you call it? Then why did he get so pissed when he heard she was sleeping with me? I’ve seen him in class since then, but he’s sat down on the front row. He’s the last to show up to class and the first one to run out once the professor releases us. He thinks he can run from me, but he can’t.

“Maybe that’s what he was waiting on,” the guy jokes.

“I know I’d share if she was mine. I’ll take that sweet ass while you take her mouth.”

And I’ve heard all I need to know. What the fuck has Seth been telling his friends? She was a fucking virgin, so I know they haven’t done much. Hell, he’s never even eaten her out. And I saw the way she looked at my cock. She’d never seen one before. What makes these guys think that he would share her?

I stand and turn to face him, but Cole grabs my upper arm. “Don’t.”

I look over at him and growl. “What if it was Austin?”

He lets go of my arm and nods. “I got your back.”

“Fuck that mouth, I want her pussy …”

I step forward, gripping the guy’s hair, and I rip him from where he sits on the bench and shove him headfirst into the lockers.

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“What the hell happened?” Coach snaps as we all gather in his office.

I only got a few punches in before he came running into the locker room and broke it up. The bastards got off lucky.

“They jumped us,” Peter barks.

I snort. Fucking rats. I place my bloody hands behind my back and step forward. “They were discussing in much detail how they planned to, for lack of a better word, fuck a girl. At the same time. A girl who I know, Coach. And I didn’t feel comfortable listening to their derogatory comments. Especially since