*Violet's POV*
When Lucas comes over and interrupts us, I can’t help but feel annoyed. I’m pretty sure I just experienced my first ever orgasm. In the middle of a crowded nightclub. On Kane’s fingers. My head is buzzing enough from the alcohol and the adrenaline that I can’t even bring myself to care how wrong the whole thing was.
When we reach the rest of the group and Cara attaches herself to Kane I can’t help the knot that forms in my stomach and the only buzz that’s left is the one from the liquor. Lucas grabs onto my hips and starts dancing with me so I sway with him to the music, and when I look over at Kane I see that he’s not even dancing, just standing there letting her dance on him and his attention is fully on me.
I meet his eyes as I dance with Lucas and the intensity of his gaze sends a shiver down my spine. Some guy walks in between us, breaking our eye contact and I see that it’s the guy Lucas
*Kane's POV*When I walk inside my room, I lean back against the door and rest my head on it, letting my eyes close. It takes every last shred of self-control not to open this door back up and finish what I started at the club. It seems like every cell in my body is urging me to do it, but I can’t put her in danger anymore. I need to just let her be with her nice, tame, football-playing golden boy. She’s better off that way.I wait until I hear her go to and then return to her room from the bathroom, wait another five minutes and then sneak over to brush my teeth before quickly returning to my bedroom.I lie on the bed and allow myself to briefly consider a world where Violet and I had met under different circumstances. One where it would be easy to be with her. I drift off to sleep, dreaming of this other, beautifully impossible world.When I awaken the next morning, my dream land comes crashing down around me and I’m thrust back into t
*Violet's POV*When Kane tells me it won’t happen again I can’t help but feel upset about it. He made me feel so amazing last night with just his fingers and the thought that I won’t ever feel that way again is so disappointing. I try and think about a time when Jace ever made me feel even half that amount of pleasure and I come up blank. I really shouldn’t be making these kinds of comparisons but I just can’t help it.It looks as though this drive is going to be another 3 hours of silent treatment from Kane so I pull out my ereader and continue the book I started on the drive up. At one point, my phone vibrates and I see a text from Lucas.I open it to find a couple of the pictures that we took last night with the message: I post one and you post one?I type back: Yes! I’ll take the 2nd one.Lucas: Deal!I post the picture and tag him in it and then get a notification at almost exactly the same time that
*Kane's POV*We both get up from the booth and head towards his car. When we get in, the tension in the vehicle is almost tangible. I start driving and when we’re in front of her dorm, I look at her and she says, “Kane, you and I both know this can’t work. It would be best if we just, you know, kept our distance.”She’s 100% right but that does nothing to stop the sharp pain that slices through my chest. But I would suffer this pain every day for the rest of my life to protect her. And that’s exactly what I will do.“I know. Like I said this morning, it won’t happen again,” I tell her, forcing my voice to not give away the pain I feel.“Right,” she whispers and then gets out of the car. I fight the urge to go help her with her bag because if I do, I won’t have enough self-control to stop myself from doing things I shouldn’t. I push the button to open the trunk and when I hear he
*Violet's POV*When Kane drives away I feel like I’ve lost something I never really had in the first place. I head up to my room and find Stella lying on her bed watching a show on her laptop.She sits up in bed aggressively and says, “Girl, tell me EVERYTHING about this weekend! I saw your post on insta and you seriously need to take me to that club.”I tell her all of the parts that don’t involve Kane and then we proceed to watch a movie together before going to dinner. After dinner she tells me there’s a party at one of the frat houses (not Kane’s) but I tell her that I’m pretty tired out from the drive and that I wanna be functioning properly for my classes tomorrow.As she’s getting ready, I see that it’s 7 so I facetime Jace. He picks up quickly and I see him lying on his stomach on his bed.“Hey Vi.”“Hey,” I reply awkwardly.“I’m sorry ab
*Violet's POV*The next morning, I wake up very warm and when I breathe in a familiar smell, I remember where I am. I open my eyes and realize I’m connected to Jace’s side with my arms and legs wrapped around him.I bring one hand up to rub my eyes and Jace stirs a little. As I begin to untangle my limbs, his arms wrap around me holding me into him.“Morning,” he says sleepily.“Good morning. How did you sleep?”“Excellent with you here. Although it was quite warm. You were like a lil koala all night,” he says and then kisses the top of my head. I giggle and say, “You know you loved it.”“I know I love you,” he replies back.I tilt my head up and say, “I love you too.”“Are you hungry? We could go make breakfast.”“I could eat. Can I shower first though?”“Only if I can join you,” he says with a
*Kane's POV*On Saturday afternoon, I head to the gym to train with Rex. We’re pretty sure I’ll get a shot at fighting Machine tonight. I’m undefeated so far and people are taking notice.When it’s time to head out, we decide to just carpool from the gym to the club. We arrive just after 10pm and there are already people here. This is my first Saturday here and Rex wasn’t kidding about it being packed.The three of us go register and then make our way around the floor to see who’s here already and check out any new guys. We get looks and whispers as we roam around and I’m sure it’s because everyone is excited about the idea of me fighting Machine even though I haven’t seen him here yet.Just when I think he’s not going to show, he walks in with Rocky at his side and head’s over to registration. Not even 5 minutes later, the round one matchups are posted. Sure enough, I’m paired
*Violet's POV*As I walk up the stairs to my room with Kane, I feel this giant void opening up inside of me. 4 years. 4 years I was with Jace. I gave everything to him. And I thought he had done the same for me. I guess I was wrong.I unlock the door to my room and find it empty. I’m not surprised. Stella went to a party so I didn’t expect her to come back tonight.Kane drops my bag and then turns on the lights. I turn around to look at him and his face looks way worse in the light. I walk up and examine the cut on his forehead along with the dried blood that sticks to his neck and continues underneath the collar of his shirt.“Kane, this looks really bad. Are you sure you’re okay?”“I’m fine. Don’t worry about me. It’ll heal.” I’m glad to see that he at least has stitches in it.I sigh and go over to grab a towel and say, “Come on.” He doesn’t sa
*Kane's POV*After she told me about it, I looked it up and read about signs of relapse and I know she said she didn’t want me to watch her but I can’t help it. When she tells me she’s not hungry, it scares me for a second but when I tell her that it’s not open for discussion, she agrees quickly and I relax a little.As I sit on her bed with her standing in between my legs and my arms around her waist, it feels impossible to keep fighting this. Every time we’re in the same room our bodies just migrate towards each other. They clearly didn’t get the memo that we can’t be together.When we hear a key turn in the lock, Violet jumps back from me and I instantly miss her warmth. Stella walks in and looks back and forth between us, trying to figure out, well, everything I suspect.“So, um, we’re going to breakfast, but I’ll fill you in on everything after, I promise.”Stella nods and then