26. Reece

After another job I'd rather forget, I get back to the pub.

I'm vexed with Malyk. The guy is always overstepping boundaries.

I wave my phone in his face as I step up to the bar where he's sitting, sipping on a bourbon.

"Who are you sending my number to again, fucker?" I ask, more as a demand.

"Just your lover boy," he responds with his signature smirk.

"Huh?" I respond because surely he's not referring to the enemy.

"Don"t be so daft, my sweet," he taunts, taking a sip of his bourbon and sniggering under his breath.

"You sent my number to Capullo?"

"Yeah, your boy came here to see you. He was frothing at the mouth."

"What the fuck Mal?" I snap, disgruntled that he'd do that behind my back.

Malyk laughs. "He wants you, Ree. The boy is pining for you big time."

"So, what are you saying?"

"That you both need to get off your high horses and admit your feelings to each other."

I scoff, signalling the bartender for a drink. "You know that"s not possible Mal. Our families will disown us. Plus did you forget that I hate Jasper?"

"Do you?" he taunts, sniggering again. "Do you really hate him? Or do you hate that he makes you feel?"

"I hate him, but that"s not all I feel for him," I admit, sighing and taking a sip of the whiskey the bartender slides down the bar towards me. That's a perk about coming to this pub regularly, the bar staff know our poison without asking.

Gulping the bitter liquid down, I sigh again, admitting, "He makes me feel alive in a whole new way."

Malyk chuckles, eyeing me over the rim of his glass. "My sweet, you don"t hate him. You love him."

"The fuck I do," I snap, spitting some of my whiskey towards my best friend in my huff.

"Just be with him. Let your guard down," Malyk tells me with a condescending tone.

"I"ve done that, but I get the feeling he"s not completely letting me in."

"Then get him to. Fuck it out of him."

For some fucked up reason I blush at that suggestion and look away.

"Have you not fucked him?" Malyk asks, quirking his eyebrow at me.

"No," I admit, feeling my cheeks heating more. My feeling this way about sex is weird. "We"ve done everything except fuck. I think he"s pure."

"Seriously? You think he"s a virgin?"

"He"s practically said so," I tell my best friend with a nod. "But I don"t know whether to believe him."

"Yeah, damn."

"Right," I acknowledge. "There"s no way a guy as gorgeous as Jasper is still a virgin."

"Yep, but if so, you need to take his cherry, Ree. Make his gorgeous arse yours alone."

I nod, sniggering. "I"m going to ruin the sweet Jasper Capullo."

Malyk laughs and mumbles something that I can"t hear, but I think it"s, ‘and you"ll fall for him, completely.'

I down the rest of my whiskey, slamming the glass down on the bar top before I leave the pub. I text Jasper on the way out.

Capullo, my pretty boy

Are you mad?

Not at you. But Malyk is a dead man walking.

Don"t hurt your best friend.

You want me to hurt you instead?

No :)

You at the dorms?

Yeah, why?

I"m coming over.

EEEK

I just wanna hear about your day and make you cum, pretty boy

Um ok…are you horny?

No, you"re just so damn sexy all the time, Jasp

Oh ok…

I wanna make you moan.

I want you in my mouth

Fuck Capullo

I type, hastily getting in my car and speeding off, desperate to get to the dorms.