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The Cheermonsters glare at me from their spot on the track. I ignore them and look up into the stands. My brow furrows when I can’t find Penny, Nat, Izzy, or Vicky.
Kenz comes to stand next to me. “Man, if looks could kill, Sidney would have you buried by now.”
“Do you know where Penny, Nat, Izzy, and Vicky are?”
Kenz looks in the visitor’s section for them but shakes her head. “I don’t see them. That’s weird. They were so excited to come to the game in art class. Nat wouldn’t shut up about it.”
Thatisweird. I glance at the guys warming up and catch Luke’s gaze before he throws. He stops, holding the football between his hands, and gives me a questioning look. I’m not supposed to be a distraction though, so I smile softly and he gives me a smirk before letting the ball fly.
The girls can wait until after the game.
CHAPTER 58
The Bait and Switch
Luke
We’re on defense again. As I stand on the sidelines, trying to focus on the game, I can’t seem to get my mind or my gaze off Harper, standing next to the water cooler. Wearing school colors, she’s focused on the game, biting the end of the pencil before scribbling numbers on the sheet of paper.
“Head in the game, Foster.” Coach Turner steps between us. His eyes are focused and his lips press into a line. “If she’s a problem, I’ll send her up to the stands. She can do stats from there.”
“Not a problem, Coach.” I narrow my eyes. He’s new and doesn’t bend as easily to our will.
Shaking his head, he walks away. Jack moves to stand next to Harper. She smiles when she notices him but returns her attention to the clipboard and the game.
“I bet she takes cock in every hole.” Parker. That fucker never learns his lesson. He and Adams stand in front of me, watching Harper. Do they know I’m back here?
“She probably begs for it,” Adams says. “She’d probably want both our cocks slamming into her. That’s what she’s used to.Probably needs a third too. Fill her up. Not sure how the five of them go at her.”
The guys laugh.
Heat rises inside me, and my fists clench. Fucking assholes. I should have cut Parker down at breakfast the other day and made sure he stayed down.
Nico’s hand claps my shoulder before I tackle one of the two idiots standing in front of me. “They’re not worth it.”
He’s right. At least for right now.
“Did Jack lock down the locker room?” I’m still going to fuck up Parker’s and Adams’s lives. They need to learn not to mess with what’s mine, even in their filthy brains. She’s not theirs.
Nico nods. “No calls in or out during half-time.”
“Good.” We have to make sure Penny and her friends have time to figure out who’s the one feeding information. Now we just need to see who takes the bait. We couldn’t give the football players a chance to call and abort any plans based on their false intelligence.
Eli steps up on my other side. “The girls are waiting to see who shows up where.”
“I don’t trust those girls.” Penny, Natalie, Isabelle, and Victoria are a necessary evil when we don’t know who else to trust. Everyone we usually rely on could be the mole.
The girls want popularity. They want to be considered elite. We can give them that.
But that’s not all they want. That’s the part that concerns me.
“They were at that first game and accounted for the other times Harper’s been attacked. Jack checked them thoroughly.” Eli swipes his arm over his forehead. “It’s possible they’re driving things, but unlikely. They seem like a safe bet, but we have a contingency plan if they fail.”
When Adams gets called to rotate in, Parker turns to see who else is around to talk to. He’s been warming the bench this wholegame. His uniform is pristine clean, and he probably smells like roses. Fucker.
He smirks at us like we’re his besties and strolls over.
“I know you all aren’t letting your new toy out of the box yet, but if you want to share?—”
