*Kane's POV*
Tuesday morning, I wake up to the sound of my phone ringing. The caller ID says it’s my father. Of course it is. I know it will only make things worse if I don’t answer so I click the little green button.
“Hello,” I say, not trying to conceal the annoyance in my voice.
“Hello son. How have you enjoyed your first couple days?” I calculate whether or not I should mention that I saw Violet. It is a small campus so it is likely we would have run into each other. But it is also probable we didn’t. Has she spoken to her mother? Maybe he already knows. I have no way of knowing so I decide to keep it vague.
“Fine,” I say, continuing to give away no information with my tone.
“Well, we’re going to invite your sister to come stay with us this weekend.” My stomach drops. “We figure since you go to the same school, you could carpool.”
I’m in so much sho
*Violet's POV*No no no no. What did I just do? That was wrong on so many levels. He’s mystep-brotherand I have a boyfriend. Oh god, I just cheated on Jace. I’m such a horrible person. But why did it feel so good? Kissing Jace is nice, sure, but that? That was a whole other level. My body has never reacted that way before. It was like everywhere he was touching was on fire. No! Stop it! I can’t be thinking this way! I have a boyfriend who I love and who loves me. I will not screw that up!I don’t even know why he kissed me. It makes no sense. I have so many questions that I’ll probably never get the answers to. I do know two things for sure though. One: I cannot tell anybody about this. And two: it can never happen again.When I step into the room, Stella is on her laptop and she doesn’t look up when she asks, “So, how did it go?”I’m thankful she’s not looking at me because
*Kane's POV*I spend pretty much the whole day trying to distract myself from Violet, but I just can’t. The only thing that’s getting me through is the thought of the fights tonight. The day seems to pass in slow motion as I wait. By 9pm, I cannot wait any longer and I walk out the front door towards the car I have stashed in an alley.The 10 minute walk passes quickly and I hop in my car and head to the address on the piece of paper. When I arrive I see that I am at a strip joint not too far from Rex’s gym and it’s sitting on an unnecessarily large concrete pad. The neon sign out front is lit up and I suspect the strip club part is already open. I drive past it and park a couple streets over. It’s barely 9:30. I set my phone down and head in. Might as well enjoy some tits while I wait.I flip up my hood for the walk; the probability that I’ll run into somebody I know is slim, but one can never be too safe. When I open the doo
*Violet's POV*The rest of orientation week passed by rather quickly. I went to see my therapist on Wednesday. She seemed nice enough and mostly just asked me general questions about my file and my history.I told her about Stella and about Kane and my mother and the trip this weekend. She seemed to think it would be good for me to see her but I’m not so sure. I also left out the kiss between Kane and me. I keep trying to convince myself that if I don’t say it out loud, maybe it never happened in the first place.I spoke with Jace Wednesday after my therapy session and told him about this weekend. He had to cut the conversation short again because of football practice but told me that if I needed anything over the weekend to call him.By the time Friday morning rolls around, I am sitting in bed scrolling through social media, trying to stop myself from letting my anxiety take over and failing miserably.“Geez Vi, you’re gonn
*Kane's POV*After that stupid tour, I head to my room, or rather, the room they call mine and take out my laptop. I have an hour and it should only take me about 5 minutes to change.When I can no longer justify procrastinating any longer, I pull on black jeans and a white v-neck with a leather jacket. I don’t do dress pants and button up shirts. I push the sleeves up on my jacket to show more of my tattoos, knowing they piss my dad off.I walk out of my room and find Violet closing the door to hers. I can’t stop myself from raking my eyes up and down her body. It would be so easy to push her back against that wall, and fuck her in that dress. I want to put my mouth all over the exposed skin on her shoulders and neck.My eyes find their way back to her blue ones which are regarding me intently. I can’t decipher the emotion behind them. Her eyelashes flutter a little, and I snap out of my trance. We are in my father’s house. This c
*Violet's POV*I stand in the hallway, stunned. Did Kane just give me a compliment after ignoring me this entire day? His mood swings are giving me whiplash. It takes me a few seconds to regain my composure and open the door. Stepping into the room, I realize how much of a buzz I currently have going on from all the bourbon.When I finally make it inside, I strip the dress off and put on pajama shorts and a hoodie and put my hair up into a bun. I grab my little bathroom bag and then head out.When I open my door I see Kane closing his and stepping into the hallway.“Oh, sorry, are you using the bathroom?” I ask. He nods.“Okay, I’ll just go later.”“It’s fine, there are two sinks,” he says with a shrug.“Um, right, yeah. Okay.” He gestures for me to go first, so I do and head into the bathroom to the far sink, setting down my things. I wash my face first and when I finish dry
*Kane's POV*When I felt her hands creeping up my shirt to my back, it reminded me of the scars that sit there. Most of them from my father and some of them because of her. Because I took punishments for her. The hate and resentment that came along with that realization was enough to snap me out of whatever trance her lips had put me in.Leaning back on the door to my room after shutting it quickly, I try to calm my heart rate down. I sit on the edge of my bed and put my elbows on my knees, resting my head in my hands.Her touching my back triggered some nasty feelings to bubble over, but is it really her fault? No, I don’t think so. But at the same time, it’s safer for her to hate me. I realize that at some point since I first saw her at the frat house, my focus shifted and now, the thought that she hates me feels like a knife to the gut. Fuck. This is a problem.I try to think through my options and eventually I realize I need to apologize t
*Violet's POV"When I see the look of panic in Lana’s eyes as they flicker to Harper at my statement, I know instinctively that she’s scared of him. I don’t know what exactly she thinks he’ll do, but I quickly amend my statement. “Lana offered to take over and I declined,” I tell him.“I see,” he says before pulling out a chair. I look back over to her and see her silently thanking me with her eyes. I get the sudden urge to ask her why but it’ll have to wait.The food is done and Lana helps me bring it over to the table and we all have a seat and Lana disappears into the backyard.“So, we will be attending a luncheon at the Johnson’s house today,” My mom says. I’m hoping “we” means her and Harper. I have absolutely zero desire to spend my day with a bunch of stepford wives pretending to like each other. Apparently Kane has the same thought because he says, “We,
*Kane's POV*When she tells me the guy she’s spent the last two hours with is gay I feel a bit ridiculous for the white hot jealousy that’s been swirling inside me this whole time.As I watch her go to a table, I see a group of people walking towards her. I think I may have seen them around before but I can’t recall any of their names. I can, however, see that they’re all snakes from way over here. I especially don’t like the way the guy on the far right is looking at Violet.I’ve been trying to stay away from her with my dad around so that he doesn’t think I’m getting attached but she’s in a big group. I could be there for any one of those girls, right? My legs decide before my brain does and I begin walking towards their table, glaring at the guy looking at her the whole way there.He notices me and then quickly averts his gaze away from Violet. Fucking creep.As I get closer, and the girls no