Dare Series Collection - Shantel Tessier Page 0,97

play on his phone. I see he was tagged in a picture just a few days ago. The person doing the tagging is a girl. She has short brown hair and light brown eyes. His lips are on her cheek and her hand is on his chest. But there’s no caption.

I swallow, hating the feeling that he is with someone else so fast. I’m not going to say I thought we would get married, but he was a big part of my life. And then, boom. Nothing. It hurts.

It’s not like Cole and I are anything important. Like I wanted this relationship with him.

I unfriend Martin, exit his page, and go back to mine, deleting every picture he was in.

Cole pulls up to my house, and I open the passenger door to get out. “Austin …” He grabs my upper arm.

I swing my head around to glare at him. “I didn’t delete them for you.” Then I yank my arm free and get out.

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Sunday evening, I find myself back at the clubhouse with the guys to do another dare.

I sit on the couch with Cole to my left and Deke to my right. We haven’t spoken much since yesterday afternoon. We went to see a movie last night, but the best thing about movies is that you can’t talk during them. Then afterward I told him to take me home. He didn’t argue even though earlier in the day he had told Celeste I would be staying the night with him. I think he knew I was pissed and didn’t want to fight with me over it.

“So who’s up?” I ask.

“Cole,” Deke answers.

“Don’t make your dare illegal,” Cole warns me without looking my way. And I know it’s for my sake, not his.

I ignore him.

Like last time, Shane passes out pieces of paper and pens. I write down a dare and put it in the bowl.

I peek over at Kellan standing by the table, and he’s staring at me. I look away.

Cole gets up and goes over to the bowl. He draws out a piece of paper and silently reads it to himself at first. His jaw sharpens and nostrils flare. His eyes instantly go to Kellan who smiles back at Cole, then looks back at me.

“I dare you,” Kellan says to Cole with a sinister smile on his face.

I swallow nervously.

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

COLE

MY EYES GO to Austin, and her face is white, eyes wide. She looks nervous. Looking back down at the paper, I read it out loud. “You must fuck Kaitlin. Consequence. If you do not complete your dare in one month, you must pull out of the group.”

Deke snorts and mutters, “You can’t be serious.”

“Oh, I’m very serious,” Kellan says, looking at Austin.

Her face has turned red, and I’m not sure if it’s from anger or embarrassment.

Deke stands and looks at Kellan. “What the fuck, man?”

He shrugs carelessly. “Not sure what the problem is. We all know that he’s just playing with Austin for the month, and he’s fucked Kaitlin before. Not like she’s a bad lay. We’ve all had a piece of that.”

“You know why,” he snaps.

Shane runs a hand through his hair nervously while Bennett looks at Kellan with a tight jaw. We all know what he’s doing. But there’s nothing we can do—rules are rules.

I smile. Kellan is just asking for me to fuck him over. He still doesn’t know that I’m aware he’s fucking Celeste. I know she hasn’t said a word to him because he would have confronted me.

I could tell him. But what good would that do? It won’t change anything now. Plus, I want him to continue fucking her. I need insurance. And I won’t get it if he stops.

Kellan looks at me. That smirk still on his face. “You’ve got a month, Cole,” he says, then looks to Austin and winks before he walks out.

Her eyes meet mine, and she looks absolutely pissed. And I find I like another side of her. One I’ve never seen before—jealousy.

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Everyone but me, Austin, and Deke have left the clubhouse. She still sits on the couch. She hasn’t said a word since I read my dare out loud over thirty minutes ago.

Deke sighs heavily as he approaches me. “What are you gonna do, man?” he asks, lowering his voice.

“What I have to do,” I say simply.

He shakes his head. “I told you shit was gonna come to a head. And it’s gonna happen within a month.”

“It’ll be fine.”

He growls. “Kellan was out of line.”

“He’s