Damaged Love (Bay Falls High NEXT Book 2)

by Jaxson Kidman

  To see his hand disappearing up my dress, feeling… everything…

  My teeth chattered for a few seconds as Xavier pressed against me tighter.

  His fingers were inside my body, curling against my tenderness.

  I looked forward and watched the ocean.

  I listened to the ocean.

  It’s perfect song, the waves crashing over and over, hinting to me of what was about to happen…

  My right hand grabbed for Xavier’s arm.

  Not to stop him.

  No way.

  I needed him to keep going.

  “Faster,” I whispered into the night.

  I shut my eyes.

  Xavier obeyed my command.

  I heard the sound of the dress ruffling as his hand began to move faster.

  With each passing second, he gave more and more… and more…

  I let out a groan, forgetting that we were technically outside.

  Not that anyone was around.

  But still…

  Whatever. It feels too good.

  The feeling from deep inside my body began to come forward.

  It was like being at the top of a roller coaster.

  That very short second when everything paused before racing down that first, lose your stomach drop.

  When that drop hit me, I turned and hugged Xavier’s arm.

  I let out another groan, this one louder, but I couldn’t stop myself from doing so.

  My inner thighs trembled and tingled more than they ever had before as the pleasure showed itself.

  Xavier didn’t stop either.

  He knew I was finishing but he didn’t stop.

  He knew how to keep that rushing feeling going. He knew how to lead me along.

  And the wildest part was that he knew when to slow, and when to stop.

  Like he could feel what I felt.

  My hands started to shake as Xavier moved his hand from between my legs.

  His fingertips grazed my inner thigh and down my leg until he removed his hand from my dress.

  He turned his head and looked at me again.

  He leaned toward me and kissed my forehead.

  I shut my eyes and continued to hug his arm.

  I melted into him.

  I needed a minute to catch my breath.

  I grabbed my heels and didn’t bother to put them back on.

  Xavier helped me down from all the rocks to the soft grass.

  When he touched my sides, it was a whole new feeling that went through me.

  It was no longer a feeling of what if but rather when will it happen again… plus the desire for even more.

  I kept taking shaky breaths, telling myself to calm down.

  I had gotten what I wanted, right?

  In more than one way too.

  I had some dirt and secrets on the guys.

  And I had Xavier…

  He kept his hands to my sides and stared down at me.

  “Can I ask you something?”

  “Sure,” I said.

  “Do you ever regret doing something?”

  “Like what?”

  “Anything. I know you can’t remember much… but…”

  “What do you regret, Xavier?” I asked.

  My heart began to race again.

  “Nothing,” he said. “It was just a question.”

  “Why would you ask that right now? Do you think I regret what just happened?”

  “You can’t take that back,” he said.

  “I think most things we regret you can’t take back. You know?”

  “Yeah,” he said.

  Xavier took my hand and we walked side by side.

  He regrets it. He regrets what he did to me. The other two have shown guilt too. They tried to be so tough in the beginning. But I got to them. I got close. They feel regret.

  I wondered what would happen if I told them the truth.

  I had them on edge…

  “Barry is a piece of shit leech,” Xavier said.

  “Okay…”

  “Just to finish the story,” he said. “He’s never done anything with his life. He’s a burden. The family keeps him close to keep him under control. If he doesn’t get what he wants he causes problems.”

  “And you hit him. Are you in trouble?”

  “No,” Xavier said. “He won’t remember. And if he does, he won’t say anything.”

  “Thank you for doing that. He kind of just snuck up on me and…”

  “I saw,” Xavier said.

  “Do you… I mean… with us… and Noah and Easton…”

  I wasn’t exactly sure what I was asking.

  I didn’t have time to figure it out either because Noah and Easton came out of the tent as we began to approach it again.

  “Where the hell were you two?” Noah asked, his voice laced with jealousy.

  I blushed and was thankful to be covered by the darkness.

  “Barry did something stupid,” Xavier said. “I took her for a walk to calm down.”

  “You’re the one that knocked him out?” Easton asked.

  “Yeah,” Xavier said.

  “Shit,” Easton said.

  “Are you okay, Winter?” Noah asked.

  “I’m fine,” I said. “We went for a walk to the rocks and back.”

  “It’s getting annoying in there,” Easton said. “Everyone is drunk. I think we’ve done enough here for the night.”

  “I agree,” Xavier said. “I don’t need to get shit for what I did. Especially if Barry starts talking.”

  “He’s not talking,” Noah said. “They have him in a lawn chair. He’s sleeping.”

  “Good,” Xavier said.

  “He’s a scumbag,” I said.

  Easton laughed. “Try getting to know the guy.”

  “She never will,” Xavier said.

  He was being way too protective.

  And Noah picked up on it.

  Noah got closer to me and touched my right hand.

  “Want to just head back to the room?” Noah asked.

  “Yeah,” I said.

  “You don’t want to slow dance with me?” Easton asked. “Just once?”

  I smiled. “Fine. One dance. Just for you, Easton.”

  “Seriously?” Xavier asked.

  I started to blush even harder.

  All three were jealous of one another.

  Easton put his hand out. “Let’s go, Winter.” He looked at Noah and Xavier. “Don’t worry. I’ll bring her back safe and sound.”

  I could feel the hesitation pouring from Xavier as he let my hand go.

  The same for Noah.

  Easton slipped his arm around my waist and walked me to the tent.

  “Don’t worry, Winter,” he said. “If anyone tries to do something stupid, I’ll kill them for you.”

  “How reassuring,” I said.

  We entered the tent just as the lights began to dim.

  The band started to play a slow song and Easton faced me.

  His hands touched my sides and pulled me against him.

  I put my arms around his neck.

  This was crazy.

  My body was still aching and reeling from Xavier…

  “This life is hard to figure out,” he said. “Sometimes I wonder what it must be like to have no memory.”

  “Oh?”

  “Just to not know anything,” he said. “To forget all the crap in my mind. It would be a relief.”

  “Well, my advice? Get into a car accident. It worked wonders for me.”

  Easton laughed. “You’re really special, Winter. Everything that happened and you just go with it. You have a fight in you that’s just… I don’t know. It’s amazing.”

  “I just don’t like to give up,” I said. “Or give in.”

  “Meaning this cheesy music and my sweet words aren’t going to make you want me?”

  “Nope,” I said. “You’ll have to try harder than that.”

  “Oh, I’m pretty sure I can take
you down if I wanted to,” Easton said.

  “Is that a flirty threat?”

  “Maybe,” he said.

  He gently kissed me as the band played.

  I caught myself getting lost in the moment.

  I slowly moved my hands to his chest and pushed away.

  “This is way too cheesy for me,” I said.

  “Meaning you want me to take you to the room,” he said, wiggling his eyebrows.

  “You know, I appreciate your enthusiasm, Easton. I mean, it’s a bold move to try and convince someone who lost their memory that you had sex with them in the backseat of their car.”

  “I know,” Easton said. “I guess it’s only right we make it true.”

  “You don’t have a car here.”

  Easton touched his chest. “You’re killing me here, Winter.”

  I laughed.

  He grabbed my hand.

  We walked away from the tent.

  I was actually kind of killing myself with the way everything was starting to feel.

  Chapter 24

  two words

  I got changed out of the dress, on my own.

  The guys all got changed, on their own.

  We all said our goodbyes and goodnights and I retreated to the massive bed.

  Alone.

  I knew I was going to be sleeping alone. But that didn’t mean it was going to settle well within me.

  I kind of hated it.

  I hated the position I was in.

  I hated what my heart felt.

  I liked them. I cared about them. I was teetering on a dangerous line that flirted with another L word…

  That wasn’t going to happen. Ever.

  I curled up under the covers and shut my eyes.

  I begged for sleep, but it didn’t come.

  Not even close.

  My mind replayed the events of the night over and over.

  I had an understanding of who they were.

  As part of rich and powerful families, they had to show their faces to events like this because it was all about protecting the family brand. Protecting the power over the money.

  Noah’s parents had no faith in him. They had no choice but to pretend he was just fine.

  Easton was devious. I wasn’t sure what he knew or didn’t. That was just part of his charm.

  And then Xavier… the one living in the world of secrets, lies and deceptions.

  Again, I didn’t know what he knew or not.

  I gave up on sleep a short while later and climbed out of the bed and opened the window.

  I moved out onto the ledge on my own and sat there.

  There were still people in the tent.

  The ball would go on probably until sunrise.

  I wondered who was leaving that tent with their spouse or someone else.

  And I wondered who actually cared.

  Because money and power controlled everything.

  Just like what I was dong… it was about power.

  I wanted the power over the three of them. I needed the power.

  I had a point to prove.

  Yet…

  I shut my eyes and put my head back.

  I slowly climbed through the muck of my memory back to the night of the accident.

  It was there clear as day.

  Tank stood no chance against whatever had been done to it.

  I couldn’t steer. I couldn’t stop.

  I had no choice but to go off the road and crash.

  I had to jump into the backseat to save my life.

  It all happened so fast…

  Boom. Crash. Thud. Crunch. Smack.

  Darkness.

  I touched the corners of my eyes and wiped away tears.

  I dug back a little bit more.

  I started to look for a memory that didn’t exist.

  The memory in which it wasn’t Noah, Easton, and Xavier who did this to me.

  The memory where they were decent guys.

  Where the accident made me remember things wrong.

  Right?

  Wrong.

  I knew the truth and there was no escaping it.

  I knew it from the second I saw the three guys standing in the hospital room.

  They were the reason I lost my memory.

  They were the reason I got it back.

  They were the reason I was doing all of this… to get back at them.

  Only my stupid heart got too involved.

  I touched my chest.

  “Stupid, stupid heart,” I whispered.

  I came all this way… for what? To just give up on it? To just pick one of the three and have them be mine? To let them flirt, touch, kiss and more, only to have it lead to nothing?

  I wiped my eyes again and climbed back through the window.

  The emotions were heavy, and I couldn’t chase them away.

  The only thing that would help was sleep.

  I managed to fall asleep a few minutes later.

  I woke up the next morning and sat up in the bed.

  I looked around for Noah…

  Nope.

  I frowned.

  I was kind of hoping he’d be next to me again with coffee, ready to flirt and kiss.

  I looked around the room and there was no sign of the guys.

  They must still be sleeping from the night before.

  When I saw what time it was, I cringed.

  I was up way too early.

  But up was up.

  I threw the covers off my body and shuffled my way to the bathroom first, then the kitchen second.

  There was no coffee made.

  “What the hell?” I groaned.

  I moved from the kitchen and through the room.

  I opened the spare bedroom door and the bed was messy but empty.

  I walked to the fireplace and looked at the couch where Xavier had slept.

  Again… it was empty.

  I took a deep breath.

  They probably went to get coffee and food.

  Xavier was probably running the beach before his workout.

  I stood at the window and saw a bunch of people working to take the tent down.

  “All over,” I whispered.

  Which was good.

  I needed coffee and food and then we could get the hell out of here.

  Head back to BFH where I could see Gia and hug her.

  Then I’d have to text Talon and put together the final piece of this crazy plan of mine.

  And then I would-

  I heard a soft knock at the door.

  I spun around and smiled.

  Food. Coffee. Yes.

  I ran to the door and opened it.

  A man stood with a silver cart again.

  I backed up and he pushed it into the room.

  He was there and gone without saying a word to me.

  I stepped out into the hallway and watched him walk down the hall.

  I looked in both directions, now seriously wondering where the guys were.

  They obviously didn’t leave to get food if they had some delivered.

  Unless they were giving me some space to wake up and get changed.

  That was possible.

  Maybe they were getting everything packed up.

  Or maybe they had to go have breakfast with their parents and they spared me the horror of sitting through that.

  I shrugged my shoulders and shut the door.

  I stepped up to the silver cart and lifted the lid on the tray.

  There was no food.

  There was a piece of paper.

  I picked it up and unfolded it.

  When I read what was on the paper, I dropped it.

  I looked at the cart and pushed it over.

  I opened my mouth to scream but had no words and no breath.

  I fell to my knees and hovered over the letter.

  It was just two words on the piece of paper.

  But it was two words that were going to change everything.

  WE KNOW
.

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