KAI POV
I needed a break.
A real one.
Not ten minutes of pretending I was fine, or thirty seconds of “I can handle this” while being shadowed on either side by two walking s*x gods with obsession issues.
Nope.
What I needed was a freaking exorcism.
Or maybe a cold lake to jump in.
Or—at the very least—an hour in the library where my hormones weren’t staging a military coup inside my skull.
But luck?
She hated me.
She spat in my coffee and laughed while I drank it.
Because the second I stepped into the library, the door was opened for me—by Derrick, of course, ever the smooth bastard—and Dalton’s hand brushed mine just as I crossed the threshold.
Tingles.
Real, actual, full-body, nerve-sizzling tingles.
All from a brush.
And I had the nerve to shiver.
Fuck me sideways.
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