“Let her go, Claire.” Adam said, his voice as cold as steel. He folded his arms across his chest, sporting a countenance of aloofness.
Behind me, Claire stilled. But that was to be expected. Adam has never rebuffed their attacks on me.
I gasped, however, before I could ruminate on Adam’s strange behavior, when Claire roughly pushed me away from her. I fell to the group in a piteous heap.
“That was totally unnecessary, Claire.”
Adam walked up to me, to the shock of Claire and me, and helped me to my feet.
“What are you doing, Adam?!” Claire screeched, flinging her hands apart in frustration. “Every girl, but her. She is cursed, for god sake! Did you forget that?”
I would be surprised if the others by the pool weren’t hearing her questions.
Adam said nothing in response.
I was in A
