Extraits

« You know what my feelings are towards you? Indifferent. In order to hate you, I’d have to care about you. You’re nothing to me. Insignificant.”

Nothing to me. Insignificant.

I should have been glad of his words, but to my horror I felt tears pricking my eyes, and my lip trembled.

Tearing away from his grip and yanking my door open, I fled the car. »

CARTER

The hallway was already empty, most people having left since it was the end of the school day. I headed for my locker to dump my books before I headed over to the field for football training.

Rounding the corner, I saw Raine, closing her locker. Fucking great. The only person around, and the last person I wanted to see. An image flashed in my mind: Raine, holding her A-graded paper, a smug smile on her face.

The simmering anger burned. I stalked up to her, smacking the books out of her hands so they fell to the floor with a crash, and then before I knew what I was doing, I had her pinned against the lockers with my hands planted either side of her head.

Her harsh intake of breath sounded loud in the corridor, her chest rising and falling against mine. Without any conscious thought, I lowered my hand and wrapped my fingers around her throat.

We both froze for a moment.

What the fuck was I doing?

Her pulse was racing under my grip. Instead of dropping my hand like I meant to, my thumb stroked down the side of her neck.