This Fearless Girl (St. Clary's University #2) - E. M. Moore Page 0,89
in their delectable forms in sweat-stained shirts. When I get to their faces, the smile on my face dies. They’re absolutely not having the same thoughts as me.
“What was that?” Lucas probes.
“What?” I edge past him to go back into the house. I need a shower badly, and my stomach is growling. It’s probably better to eat a lot more if you’re working out more, right?
“So, you’re friends with Cole now?” Lucas continues, voice hard.
This pulls me up short. “What? No.”
“You left us to go talk to him,” Wyatt says. “We want to know what’s going on.”
Ah, fuck. We’d been having such a good time while we were hitting focus mitts, I practically forgot what I asked Cole to do for me. “Okay, well, there’s something….” I tell them slowly. I don’t know why I’m nervous about this, it’s a damn good decision, and Cole was going to make us use Finn anyway.
Wyatt shakes his head. “You’re in so much trouble, Tits.”
I smirk. He hasn’t called me that in a couple hours. I almost missed it. He charges after me, picking me up in his arms as I squeal in protest. “Whoa, what are you doing? I need a shower!”
“I’ve got something better,” Wyatt gleams. “Plus, you’re going to explain why you’re keeping something from us.”
“I’m not keeping it from you. Just let me down, and I’ll tell you.”
“Oh, I’m going to put you down alright.”
Lucas smirks as he runs ahead of us and opens the sliding glass doors that lead out to the patio. Wyatt holds me over the edge of the water.
“What are you doing?”
His lips curve up in a tease. “Teaching you a lesson.”
“Maybe I won’t say shit now, cowboy.”
His eyes turn hard. “You don’t want to play that game with me.”
Lucas moves into view, holding his phone up, the screen facing us. In the corner, Stone’s face pops into view. “I can’t really tal—” He pauses, eyes widening. “What are you guys doing?”
I glare at the screen, trying to fidget out of Wyatt’s grip, but he has a really good hold on me. “Don’t fight it, Tits.”
A female voice comes on the other side of the line, and Stone’s phone goes black. The connection muffles as he says he has to run upstairs for a second. We wait as we hear the thuds of his footsteps, then he comes back into view in a bathroom. “You guys want to tell me what the hell is going on? Why are you holding Dakota over the pool?”
“She’s hiding something from us,” Lucas informs him. “Plus, we have to tell you about something that’s happened, so I figured I’d just video chat you for all of it.”
Stone runs a hand through his hair. His face is pale with dark shadows under his eyes. He didn’t even look that tired this morning after we barely had any sleep. “What happened?”
Lucas glances at me as Wyatt props me up a little more, holding me like I’m a doll. “You can put me down.”
“Not a chance,” he grins.
I sigh and return my glare to the screen. “We had a visitor when we got back. Cole sent someone here to help train me to defend myself. His name is Finn, and he’s a boxing coach. He’s going to be here for a week.”
“He what?” Stone yells. “He just sent someone there?”
I shrug. “He wasn’t that bad, actually. Wyatt and Lucas seemed to like him, too.”
“But that doesn’t answer why Cole would do that.”
“He told me I was in more danger than I realized.”
“And did you tell him that Wyatt was training you?”
“Jeez. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that!” I retort. “Of course, I fucking told him. Do you think he listened? No.”
Wyatt lifts an eyebrow and moves closer to the edge of the pool.
“I agree with Dakota. He was actually pretty cool,” Lucas admits. “He seems to have no idea what’s going on here, just doing as Cole asked.”
“Now that’s out of the way,” Wyatt says, “why don’t you inform all of us what you and Cole talked about when you blatantly walked away from Lucas and I to talk to him in private.”
The three of them stare at me—Lucas through the screen, staring at my reflection; Stone watching me through the video; and Wyatt, he’s glaring at the side of my face. “We made a deal,” I tell them, refusing to feel bad for what I did. “He’s going to search for Stone’s mom while I train with his