Rhett POV
I heard her before I saw anything—the soft rustle of sheets, the creak of her bed, the faintest exhale like she was trying not to breathe too loudly.
Alex.
I shouldn’t have been outside her room peering. Randomly I had a thought: what if Reed and Rhys saw me now?
Reed would have said I was losing control. Rhys would’ve laughed and told me to get in line. But I thought , as I watched, I needed to f**k the s**t out of Alex tonight.
That's when I heard it. Foot falls.
Someone was coming. Too close.
They'd see me go in.
I stepped into the hall, pretended to be heading toward her door, when I caught movement from the left corridor.
Reed.
Of course.
He froze when he saw me, jaw tight, like he’d been caught doing exactly what I was doing.
I opened my mouth to speak, but th
