Chapter 85

Ryder raised an eyebrow at his brother. “You’re lucky she likes you, or I’d probably kill you.”

A rare mischievous gleam sparked in Tercero’s eyes. “Is that a no?”

“I doubt my girl wants you talking about her,” was what he chose to reply. Of course, he tasted Jane.

“She told me she wanted you to have her every way possible.”

Ryder didn’t react outwardly, but his heart was pounding. His girl was a freak in the sheets. “Well, I already checked off several on her list, then.” He wasn’t going to tell anyone how much he’d done with Jane. All he cared about was that she was a satisfied, sexy mess every time he was with her, and all he had to do was look her way for her to clench those thighs together. Though, he was curious if Tercero or David had managed what he had and made her sq—

David cut off Ryder’s dirty thoughts. “Has there been any word from Sarah?”

Tercero responded to him. “No, but Ryder is certain she will learn teleportation if he stares at her window long enough.”

David stared up at the window for a few seconds. “I shouldn’t have fallen asleep with her that morning.”

“No, you shouldn’t have.” Ryder balled his fist instead of fighting David like he wanted to. Jane’s heart would break if she knew they weren’t getting along, or that Ryder blamed David for her being taken away. Really, there was no doubt in his mind things would’ve worked out if it had been just him Kingston was worried about

Tercero sat up, offering his spot to David as he prepared to leave.

“Where are you going?” Ryder called after him.

“School,” Tercero said, then he was out of sight.

Ryder checked the time, exhaling loudly. “Guess I’m taking your sorry ass to school with me?” David shrugged. “I can call Lance.”

“Jane and I fucked in my car,” he told him without any shame or malice.

Instead of responding, David pulled out his new phone and started texting someone.

Ryder laughed, knowing he was getting a ride elsewhere. “Come find me if you hear from her.” “Sarah said she didn’t have a phone,” David muttered, still focusing on his text.

“Just saying.” Ryder got up from the lounger and headed to the house to get his shit for his first day without his girl. He had no idea where she was or how she was coping with everything, and she was definitely thinking he was already moving on. Silly girl. He needed to find her.

He spotted the moon in the reflection on the glass. It was out of place in the morning light, preparing to be out of sight from him. He stared at the half-moon for a few seconds before murmuring, “Good morning, my moon.”

“What a bitch.”

Jane squeezed her eyes shut upon hearing probably the twentieth insult of her Monday at her new school. Kingston had enrolled her at Helldonna High School because that was the easiest school to get her in since it was in-district for his brother’s house. She wasn’t staying with his brother’s family because Kingston didn’t trust her around any male relative, and she had a cousin Adam, who was her age. He was treating her like a sex offender who couldn’t be trusted around male family members.

Still, Kingston got his brother to say she was living there as she stayed with his mother, David’s grandmother. His gran was a sweetheart. She tried to argue on David’s behalf because even she knew David loved her, but Kingston nearly had a fit, so Jane asked her to stay out of it and locked herself away.

Now she wished she was locked away somewhere else, maybe prison, for fucking her stepbrother, because Helldonna was actual Hell.

The whole damn school was out for her because Dylan Berith had been expelled from school because of what he’d done to her. He was a star, and no one believed he’d done anything wrong. They only saw her as the girl who’d been rumored to be with all the Godsons and her stepbrother. They said she asked for Dylan, then used him to make Ryder jealous.

“Fuck off,” came a deep voice as the chair beside her was taken and a muscular arm draped around her shoulders.

She jumped, startled, but stared in shock at the huge guy grinning at her.

“Hey there, pretty eyes.” Alexander Sin gave her a little shake before holding up an apple.

“Hungry?”

Jane darted her eyes around the science lab. Everyone was staring.

He shrugged when she didn’t take his offering, and bit into the apple, chewing loudly but somehow it wasn’t disgusting.

“What are you doing?” she finally asked when most of the class resumed their assignment.

Instead of answering her, he held up a finger to his lips then pulled out his phone, pressing call then lifted it to his ear.

Almost instantly, a familiar male voice answered. “The fuck are you calling me for?”

Alexander smirked. “I thought you’d like to know I found something of yours.” He winked at her. “About five feet, maybe a couple of inches, sexy ass, pretty dark hair and ‘Ryder Godson is my daddy’ hazel eyes.”

There was silence at the other end of the call, then . . . nothing.

Alexander frowned, holding his phone out.

Jane gaped at him. “He hung up?”

The big guy gave her a little squeeze, chuckling as his phone vibrated.

Facetime: Ryder Godson.

He smirked, holding it up for her, and she almost cried upon seeing Ryder’s face.

A storm had been ready to unleash in his fiery eyes, but he instantly calmed when she was the one greeting him. “Fuck, babe,” he said, searching her face. “You okay?”

Her head was about to roll off with her stupid bobbing. “I’m good. You?” The corner of his mouth turned up. “Am I ever good without you?” She grinned, hating so badly that she couldn’t be there with him.

He sighed when she was too emotional to talk. “He enrolled you at Helldonna? Fuckin’ prick.”

“I hate it,” she said as quietly as she could. “I want to come home.”

“I know, angel.” His eyes kept drifting over her face. “Is anyone fucking with you?” She stayed quiet, unsure if it was wise to tell him.

Alexander tilted the phone toward himself. “What do you expect when they blame her for Dylan’s expulsion? Don’t worry—I’ll keep an eye on her.”

Jane leaned over to see the glare on Ryder’s face, and she was surprised he wasn’t telling the big guy to stay away from her.

“The others?” he asked.

Alexander nodded. “They heard she’s here. We’ll watch over her.”

“You better, Sin. I’ll kill every one of you bastards if she’s hurt.”

Her sweet, bad boy, always threatening others with death. She smiled softly as Alexander chuckled at Ryder who scowled even harder.

“Easy,” Alexander said before darting his gaze at the classroom. “Turn the fuck around.”

Her eyes widened at his dark tone, and she noticed every student, even the teacher, drop their eyes to their desks and pretend they weren’t listening.

“Fucking moron,” Ryder was muttering. “I want her to call me again. Before one of you leaves today, find her and let her call me.”

Alexander nodded to him as he handed her the phone again.

Jane teared up. She missed him so much.

He watched her try to hold herself together and eventually smiled. “My emotional girl misses me, huh?”

“Yes,” she whispered, not wanting people to hear him. “Um, I’m in class, though.”

“So am I,” he said, his gaze narrowed at her. “Be proud of me like I am of you.”

“It’s easy for you—everyone is afraid of you.” She didn’t want him to think she wasn’t proud to have him; she totally was, but she also had his brothers and David. At least she hoped she did.

“Then show them my feisty Jane. My girl has claws.” He chuckled, making a hand motion to someone. “I want a call later.” “I’ll find Alexander.”

“Sin,” Ryder corrected her. “Don’t let that fucker fool you. He’s going to make a pass at you as soon as we end our call. Tell him to keep his fucking apples to himself or I’m making a necklace out of his ballsack.”

She watched her face turn red on the screen as Alexander laughed quietly beside her. “He’s being nice. He called you without me asking.”

“Damn right he did,” Ryder said, his focus on something else though. “Hang on, babe, I got someone who wants to say hi.”

Before she could tell him she didn’t want to say hi to anyone else, David was staring at her through the phone.

“Hey, baby,” he said with an easy smile lifting on his lips. “Figured he was talking to you when I saw him smiling like an idiot.”

“Fuck you,” Ryder’s voice still came through, though he had obviously handed his phone to David.

“Where are you?” David asked.

“Helldonna,” she told him, so relieved to see he was okay. She’d feared he’d done something to piss Ryder off.

David clenched his jaw as Ryder spoke to him quietly.

Jane chose to tell a little lie. “It’s fine. People are leaving me alone.”

David stared at her quietly, shaking his head. “You don’t have to lie. Do you want us to come and get you?”

“Why the fuck didn’t I think of that?” Ryder said. “Oh, that’s right, it would be considered abduction, you dumb fuck.”

“Shut up.” David glared at Ryder before sighing. “When the fuck did you start using your fucking brain.”

“When you started using your dick,” Ryder quipped, snatching his phone. He smiled at her. “We gotta run, babe. Don’t forget to call. Sin will tell you who to trust. Don’t talk to any other fuckers there, and you go to them if someone starts shit with you.” “Ask her where she’s living?” David told him.

Ryder just looked at her. “Which grandma’s house did he take you to?”

She grinned, surprised Ryder had figured it out. “His mother’s, of course.”

Ryder rolled his eyes. “Told you,” he said to David. “All right. I love you, angel. I’ll talk to you later. Find somewhere secluded to call me.”

Nodding, her eyes teared up again as she stared at his beautiful face. “And I love you.”

He was quiet, just taking her in. “Stop stealing my lines,” he said, smirking. “Tell Papi bye now.” David was back. “If you call me Papi, baby, I’m only going to hear it in his voice and freak out.” She chuckled sadly. There was no way she was calling him Papi.

“Be brave,” he said quietly.

“I will.” She searched his blue eyes, hoping hers told him what she wasn’t sure she should say aloud.

He gave her that gorgeous, David Leodegrance smile that had her heart pounding. “I love you, too.” He ended the call instead of handing it back to Ryder.