be worth living,” Nic warns, making Eli’s lips pull into a wide teasing grin.
His head continues down toward me and he plants a kiss on my cheek, beaming down at me. “Hey, O. Missed you.”
“Missed you too, turd,” I smile as he helps me up.
Mr. Afraid Of Showing Emotion is next and I turn toward him with a cheesy as fuck grin. “Hey, Kai.”
He rolls his eyes. “Yeah, yeah,” he grumbles under his breath, reaching for me and dragging me across the floor until I’m pulled into his wide arms. “Don’t get all mushy on me, pretty girl.”
I tilt my head, looking up and meeting his hard eyes. “Wouldn’t dream of it.”
“Who the fuck is this?” Elijah grunts, his tone taking on a dark edge, one that reminds me that these four guys are not just my best friends but also gang members, each of them with several kills under their belts.
“Is this Carrington?”
At the sound of the name, all four of them stiffen, becoming the lethal boys I know and love, more than prepared to teach Colton a lesson and deliver a not so subtle warning.
I glance back at Milo and as he takes in the four boys bearing down on him, I race forward, throwing myself in front of him before the guys can do any damage. “No, no, no,” I screech. “You’ve got it wrong. This is Milo. He’s practically been my lifesaver over the past few days.”
“Milo?” Nic grunts, his eyes becoming suspicious. The other guys relax, the lethal look in their eyes disappearing, but I see the same suspicion reflected in all of them.
Kairo nods at Milo. “What do you want with our girl?”
Milo’s face scrunches up. “Umm … nothing. She’s a friend. That’s all.”
“That’s all?” Sebastian questions, taking a subtle step forward. “I hear you’re spending a lot of time with her. No one wants to be just friends with a chick and spends that amount of time with her unless he’s trying to fuck her.”
I roll my eyes and groan. “Knock it off,” I say, walking back into Nic’s arms and collapsing against his hard chest. “Milo’s gay. If anything, he’s been hanging around so he can get a good look at you four. I heard you guys have been considering a reverse harem since I’ve been gone, and Milo here has offered to be the girl in your sandwich.”
All five of them look horrified by the idea while I grin with victory. Yeah, that got them to shut up.
“So, you’re into dudes?” Elijah questions. “You don’t want to get between Ocean’s legs?”
“Look, I’m not going to lie. Ocean is sexy as fuck and if I were going to fuck a chick, she’d be the one I’d be trying to get with, but no. I’m not interested. I don't go to an all-boys school for the stellar education.”
Nic scoffs a laugh and just like that, I know we’re all cool. Though, maybe I should rephrase. My crew and I are all cool, while Milo looks like he’s sweating bullets. These guys aren’t exactly the clean-cut type of boys he’s used to seeing around Bellevue Springs. My crew are the kind of guys who look like they belong in prison. All four of them are covered head to toe in tattoos and piercings, their gang colors hanging off them proudly, not to mention the guns I felt at each of their backs.
Milo will be alright though. If anything, from what I’ve seen of Bellevue Springs, he’s safer here with these four gang members than the rest of this pretentious town.
I turn in Nic’s arms and grin up at him. “What are you guys doing here?”
“Had to see you,” he says. “I couldn’t stand the thought of you living in that house with that prick. The first night that punk snuck into your room and tried to touch you and then Carrington crept into your room last night. I don’t trust them and if this is as far away as I can get you, then you bet your ass that’s what we’re doing.”
I beam up at him before looking around my small group of friends. “So you all came to help move the old bat out of here?”
“Sure fucking did, kid,” Eli says.
“You know you guys are the best, right?”
Sebastian winks. “You can pay us back in sexual favors.”
Nic reaches around my back and smacks Sebastian up the backside of his head. “Knock it off and get back to work. I want this done so