-Vaughn Blackmore:
"And Blackmore."
For a second, I genuinely thought I heard him wrong.
The words echoed strangely in my head while the noise around the training floor suddenly felt farther away than before, like everything else in the room had dulled for one very specific reason.
Kieran.
Me and fucking Kieran.
My stomach tightened immediately.
And before I could even stop myself, yesterday came rushing back into my head so vividly it almost made my jaw clench.
The freezing lake water swallowed me whole the second he shoved me in.
His friends are laughing.
My clothes were soaking through instantly while I stood there shivering like an idiot.
The way he looked at me afterward.
Like I was entertainment.
Like, humiliating me was funny.
Oh, shit.
I slowly turned my head toward him.
And immediately regretted it.
Kieran was already staring directly at me from across the group.
Waiting for me to look.
