They whisper my name in fear. Justin Black. The guy who sits in the back of the class, always in black, always untouchable. The one everyone watches but no one dares to approach.  

They don’t know me. Not really.  

Because if they did, they’d stay the hell away.  

I don’t do friends. I don’t do relationships. I don’t do attachments.  

But then there’s her.  

June Matthews—cheer captain, golden girl, a walking distraction. She’s everything I hate… and yet, she’s in my way. Assigned to me. Forced into my space. Testing my patience.  

She thinks she can handle me.  

She’s dead wrong.  

Because I have a secret. A place where I go to release the darkness inside me. Where names don’t exist, where pleasure and pain are one and the same. A world where people fulfill their deepest, most twisted fantasies.  

June doesn’t belong in my world.  

But the longer she stays, the more I want to pull her under.  

And once I do… I’m not sure I’ll ever let her go.

She didn't tell anyone we weren't together anymore.


I wasn't sure if I wanted to laugh or break something. Maybe both. Probably both. But I kept my face unreadable. That was always my specialty, wasn't it? The clean, cold mask. Just enough to keep the wolves guessing and the innocents from running.


She looked right at me—that half-second flicker of disbelief in her eyes gave her away before she rearranged her face into that too-perfect smile. The one she used when she was covering something up. The one I'd seen before when she was still mine.


But she hadn't expected the ginger girl to yank her back and announce to the whole fucking hallway like it was a high school rom-com.


Chapter 81 - Your Boyfriend Is Here {ii}