Page 85 of Boys Who Hunt

I am in on their ruse.

And me being here … I don’t know if it’s because of my own needs … or because Heath told me to infiltrate her life.

“I just …” She sighs. “I can’t catch feelings for anyone at Spine Ridge U. It’s not an option.”

My heart flutters.

Feelings? She has feelings for me?

“I think it’s best if you leave,” she says, turning away.

Sadness overcomes me, because this … this is not at all what I’d wanted when I first laid eyes on her. I’m torn between my adoration for her, and my admiration for the person I’ve known all my life.

How am I supposed to choose?

“And don’t tell Heath and Silas about me seeing them kill that man,” she says.

I shake my head. “I won’t.”

“I’ll hold you to that.”

Ivy

I closemy eyes and rub them. I shouldn’t have done this. I don’t know why, but I got carried away in the moment. I let my horniness for a man so desperate to please me take control over my actions.

Fuck.

I walk off, but he grabs my hand. “Wait.” The way he looks at me is just so … unsettling to me. Like he would worship the ground I walk on. But nothing I’ve done warrants that kind of devotion. And definitely not from the guy who's friends with those demons.

“I want you to know I don’t give up easily,” he says.

I snort and shake my head.

Fuck. Why’d he have to go and say something so sweet?

I head to the kitchen to grab some water. “You should.”

I don’t know what it is that I’m feeling right now or why I’m so conflicted.

Am I really starting to feel something for this guy?

He gets up off the couch and puts his hoodie back on. “Not when it comes to you.”

My soul feels struck by lightning, and I gape at him as he comes up to me. He places the key to my apartment on the kitchen counter. “A promise is a promise.”

I don’t know what to say.

I thought he came here out of his own selfish needs, that all he wanted was sex as a reward, just like the other two. But maybe … maybe there’s something more between us than either of us are willing to admit.

He opens the front door but pauses halfway through. “I won’t stop watching you.”

And as he closes the door, my heart beats wildly out of control.

Heath

My face darkensas I lean against the wall on the fire escape.

Ivy fucking Clark. So it was you who got away tonight.