My hands tangled in his hair, he melded my body to his. “You own me.”
This was the most exposing, intimate, tender moment, Kyle and I had ever shared, as we claimed one another, possessed each other, reveled in our insecurities and soared.
I wasn’t playing pretend, anymore.
I meant every word.
“Get your hands off him, you whore. I know what you’re doing, trying to pass that the kid off as his, when everyone knows you’ve been fucking his brother.”
My blood ran cold.
Panting, I tore my mouth away from Kyle’s and glared at the evil, bitch troll, who was standing a couple of feet away from us.
I was about to respond, but Kyle beat me to it.
“Rachel,” Kyle sighed, pulling me close to his chest, as if to shield me from his ex-girlfriend. “For the love of god, can you please, just leave us alone?”
“I’m not giving up on you,” Rachel shot back, eyes glued on Kyle. “I love you, she doesn’t. She doesn’t love you like I do. No one does. Just me. Just me. I do, I do, Kyle. It’s me, just me.”
Rachel launched herself at Kyle, shoving me away from him.
“Please,” she cried, tugging at his arm, running her hands all over him. “Take me back. Take me back or I’ll die. I will die if you don’t forgive me.”
I staggered away, gaping in horror, and shock.
“Kyle,” I whispered.
He didn’t hear me.
His focus was completely on Rachel, who was clinging to him like a baby monkey, and raving like a lunatic. “Me, me, me, not her.”
“Kyle,” I shouted louder.
Nothing.
I couldn’t look at this for one more second.
This was everything I’d been afraid would happen. My worst nightmare was coming true.
Unable to stomach the sight of Kyle, comforting Rachel, I turned around and rushed away on shaken legs.
*****
Kyle
“I need an ambulance, C.U campus,” I demanded before hanging up, and slipping my phone into my pocket.
“I’m sorry,” Rachel cried pitifully.
Dropping to her knees, she hugged my leg. “I love you, that’s why I did it. She doesn’t love you. She is a bad person. She wants to take you away from me. But she won’t. You won’t let that happen, will you?”
Rachel’s body shook violently and I had no idea of what to do.
Going against every instinct in my body, I stroked Rachel’s hair.
“Shh, it’s okay,” I soothed. “You’ll be okay. I’m gonna get you some help. Real soon.”
I hoped the ambulance would hurry the fuck up.
Or campus security, where the hell were those guys when you needed them?
There was a crowd gathering around us, and even though I couldn’t stand Rachel, I didn’t want this for her.
She was sick, not a fucking spectacle.
“What the fuck are you looking at?” I snarled, which caused a few bodies to scamper.
Tugging off my t-shirt, I slipped it over Rachel’s head, and then put her arms through the sleeves.
“Is she gone?” Rachel howled, shaking her head viciously. “She has to go. She has to leave. She has to disappear.”
“She’s gone,” I soothed, crouching down beside her.
I couldn’t blame Lee for running off.
I’d deal with her later. I couldn’t think about her right now…
I heard the sound of a siren blaring, moments before an ambulance pulled up next to us.
Rachel scrambled into my lap, clinging to me. “They want to keep us apart, but they can’t. Nothing can keep us apart.”
I kept my arm around her shoulder, and my eyes on the paramedic rushing towards us.
“Shh,” I whispered, praying to god they’d hurry the hell up.
“Come on, sweetheart,” one of the paramedic’s said, wrapping a brown blanket around Rachel’s shoulders.
“Tell them Kyle,” she begged. “Tell them we belong together.”
“We belong together,” I said in a coaxing voice as I peeled her arms away from me, and pushed her into the arms of the medic.
They bundled Rachel into the ambulance, and I staggered away, unable to watch, or listen to the feral screams coming from her throat.
*****
“Open the door, Lee,” I asked for the fifth time, in a matter of minutes.
Banging louder, I tried the door handle, even though I knew it was locked.
“Lee, please, open this door.”
Leaning against her bedroom door, I allowed myself to sink to the floor.
“I’m sorry,” I whispered.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Lee
Mike and Cam?
I couldn’t believe it.
I didn’t believe it.
I had come straight to Mike’s apartment, from the CU campus.