Caught between my bully and my step brother

Chapter 11

Getting out of class, I couldn't wait to get back to my room.

The day had been long and I had been consumed all day.

What was Trent up to ?

Why was Toby looking p*ssed at Trent ?

Errrghh, why the hell was I always at some point in a day thinking about at least one of them ?

Damm I was tired, my head hurt. Classes had been long today and all I wanted to do was curl up in bed and maybe throw on a Netflix documentary, or maybe read some more of the book that had me hooked.

It was getting, let's just say, frisky and some of the scenes made me blush and, well, it made my thigh clench and between my legs get damp. The leads in the book were dominating her. She lived to please them and in return they rewarded her with more pleasure than she could have ever imagined their hands on her body. Together, they worked in perfect irisin and knew exactly how to please her. Where to touch, where to kiss, where to lick. It was getting interesting too, she was finding things out about them. They were dangerous men. Behind their legit business there was their secret business. They were hit men. She was getting suspicious of them and why they sometimes disappeared for days, maybe, and then would show back up.

Mind made up I was going to read, I had my eye on another dark romance novel online. I was going to order it for when I finish this one. I would have to throw them all out before I finished college and moved back home. No way could I take them back to mums house. Maybe I could store them for when I get my own place.

I was rounding the corner to my building when I saw a very familiar face. He was leaning up against that dam tree again. His head was turned as he looked in the opposite direction. He had his hands tucked into his front jean pockets. His hair blew slightly in the wind. He had on a black T-shirt with his signature leather jacket on.

My feet froze.

My heart picked up its rate. I was about to turn around and walk away, stupid, right ? Walk away from my own building, but then like he could sense I was there, his head turned, and those eyes pinned me to my spot.

Trent.

We stood frozen in this weird thing of me being terrified and him, what was he ? He didn't look at me with anger or disgust like usual. He just watched me.

Then he pushed off the tree and started walking towards me.

His walk confidently brings him closer to me. I should run, I should turn my ass around and run.

Instead, I am frozen like a statue.

When he gets to where he's in front of me, he stops his eyes trailing down my body and slowly back up, until he looks me dead in the eye.

" Walk with me Addison " his voice is low, quiet, but he may as well have shouted it at me because I hear him loud and clear and then his words bounce around my head like they're on an echo.

At that I snapped out of whatever spell I was under and huffed a laugh at him.

" What ? " I ask in some sort of shock.

" I said walk with me " he grits out, his eyes narrowing.

I shake my head side to side in disbelief. " Why the hell would I do that ? " I ask.

His jaw tightens. " Either walk with me or I'll put you over my shoulder and make you come with me" he threatens. I know it's not an idol threat. It wouldn't be the first time he had hauled me on his shoulder.

" I don't have the energy for your games today, Trent, please just don't "I sigh.

He looks me over again. " Fine, then I'll come up to your room " he stages and my mouth pops open.

" Absolutely not " I snapped, to which he raised an eyebrow.

" Your choice to walk, or I come up " he shrugs, like he wasn't being completely weird right now. I look around again expecting to see Toby watching us from somewhere. I didn't see him.

" Fine i'll walk " I snap.

He doesn't look triumphant, he just nods like he knew it would happen all along. Then he nods his head in a direction and sets off walking in front of me. I look back towards the dorms. I could just run in now.

" Don't even think about it, doll," he says loudly. I look back, and he isn't even looking at me. He is still slowly walking off. My nerves were like a live wire, my legs felt a little like jelly. It felt like I would be walking to my impending doom following him. But I also had to admit, something deep down wanted me to follow him. How mixed up was that ? Like I wanted to be tortured some more by him.

I sighed, and started to walk after him. For a few minutes he didn't look back to even check I was there. Like he knows that I would have followed.

Then it's like he slows his pace because we end up side by side and I know I didn't speed up to catch him up. I nervously chewed my lip, what was all this about ?

He wasn't talking and neither was I. We were just walking. I risked a glance to look at him, and he was looking forward, his face unreadable.

I looked back ahead and got lost in my own head , all different scenarios were running through my mind. My feet moved on their own and I switched into autopilot and just followed him. Pictures of me being dumped in the fountain again or images of the time he once stolen my phone out of my hand and then pushed me into a classroom that I wasn't meant to be in and then held the door on the other side so I couldn't get out and all the kids laughed at me as I banged and tugged on the door. I didn't get my phone back off of him for two days and when I did, I hadn't a clue what he had been doing on it. But I knew he had been on it because there was this one picture that hadn't been there before. We had been fifteen, he was topless in the picture. It was a selfie, he held a finger to his lips in a quiet gesture. Even then, he was toned, and he already had a tattoo, his hair had been messy and damp like he had just got out of a shower when he had taken it.

I hate to admit I still had the photo hidden in a secret file on my phone and I have no ide why I had kept it.

" Addison "his voice, shocked me out of my thoughts. I looked up at him to see he had stopped me. His hands were on my arms. He was now standing in front of me and we had stopped walking. When had that happened ?

I looked around and saw we were behind a building, in an ally.

Fear swamps me instantly. Had I really just followed him to an ally way ?

Is this where what he had planned was about to happen ?

I stumbled back out of his grip , Toby was about to jump out any minute now and do whatever they were about to do.

" Addison relax " he states. I now realize I was breathing heavily , panting.

" What are we doing here ? " I stutter out.

" I just want to talk Addie " he states, his hands up, talking slowly like he was scared I was about to full on freak out. I was.

I lick my dry lips " In an ally way ? " I ask him.

My back hit the wall behind me, and he lifts his hand and runs it through his hair , pushing it off of his forhead.

" I just wanted privacy is all Addie. Calm down. I promise I'm not going to do anything " he sighs.

" Yeah right " I huff out, my eyes darting everywhere.

" Addie , doll , look I just want to say , well , I want to tell you. F*ck , I need to " he stops and growls.

I just stare at him now.

He looks down. Shoves his hands in his jeans pockets in the front and then moves and stands beside me, his back to the wall like mine was, and he rests his head back against the wall looking up.

" Doll, I am sh*t at this " he whispers, so low I hardly heard him.

Sh*t at what I think to myself, scaring the crap out of me because if that is what he means, I'd say he was doing a cracking job right now.

" I just want to say none of it will happen again, it all stops now " he says and rolls his head down and to the side to look at me.

I frown his words not making sense.

" What ? " I ask.

" Everything, all the bad stuff I have ever done to you. I , well it won't be happening again " he states, and I gawk at him. The fear starts to subside and anger replaces it. Was this the f*cking next prank , was this what he has been planning ?