Hmm. Interesting.
Sheisashamed of it.
Cecily doesn’t like having that kink. It probably took her a long time to admit it to herself, and signing up on the app was the first time she’s tried to act on it.
She probably thought the not-so-prince Landon would be able to satisfy her kink and they would ride off into the sunset on his black horse.
“You weren’t so embarrassed when you all but threw yourself at Landon.”
“Lan is different,” she whispers.
“Different.” My voice must convey the dark demons swirling around in my head, because her wide gaze flits back to me. “Different how?”
“Just…different.” Careful apprehension coats her tone. No attempts to soften it or hide a lie.
“You just saw him fucking another girl and you still think he’s different?”
“I knew about that.” She lifts a shoulder. “I know a lot of things about him, and his darkness. I know his preferred methods to purge and his twisted relationship with art and his family. I don’t like him because I have rosy misconceptions about him. I like him because he’s different.”
Different.
Again.
I tug on her hair and throw her off me.
She stumbles but catches herself before she falls to the ground.
“W-what’s wrong with you now?” She watches me with that caution again. As she should.
I’m two seconds away from bashing her head in, and I have to remind myself that I can’t do that.
Unless I’m in the mood to see her brain.
Which isn’t a bad idea, after all. I should see what the fuck is going on in her dysfunctional mind to cause her to harbor thoughts like that.
With one last glare in her direction, I stand up. “We’re leaving.”
She wants different?
I’ll show her what different actually means.
10
CECILY
Jeremy disappeared.
Not completely. Just from my life.
It’s been two weeks since he took me to the club and kissed me with an insatiable hunger. Two weeks and my lips still tingle in remembrance of his forceful hands and punishing mouth.
After he dropped me home that night, he hasn’t shown himself around me.
There’s no more stalking, no more unsolicited sliding into my peripheral vision and following me back to the flat.
Nothing.
At first, I thought it was because of all the events happening on both campuses, especially the rivalry between the Heathens and the Serpents.