Masked Darling (The Serpent Pit #2)
CHAPTER ONE
“ I ’m not going!” Madison called from the other side of her door. She pressed the length of her body against the wooden barrier, barely keeping her best friend from opening it fully. “You can’t make me see him!”
Alison stopped pushing against the door, and Madison let out a sigh of relief until the door came swinging wide open, causing her to fall backward onto the plush cream-colored rug next to her bed. Scooting herself back, she rested her shoulders against the edge of her bed, smoothing the auburn hair out of her eyes. Alison strolled right to her and wagged a perfectly manicured finger in her face, “I knew that was why you didn’t want to come with me tonight! It’s about Kade, isn’t it? You have to face him sooner or later, Mads.”
Madison pulled her knees up to her chest and softly banged her head against them before looking up at the raven-haired woman towering over her. “You do remember what I did, right? Actually, this party is the least of my problems. I should honestly just switch colleges so I don’t have to see him in class, either.”
Alison dropped to her knees in front of her and rubbed her back. Madison responded to the soothing motion with defeat as tears started to sting her eyes. This was so incredibly humiliating. “I’m too embarrassed to see him, Al. He probably thinks I’m a sex-crazed pervert.”
Throwing her head back, Alison finally let out a laugh. “Look, I’m not going to judge you for letting your freak flag out, even if it was on school property. But you guys run the school paper and have class together. It’s best to go to this party and see him now and get whatever awkwardness there is out of the way.” She tilted Madison’s head up and wiped the tears that had just started to spill onto her flushed cheeks with swift strokes of her fingers. “Now, come on. Let’s get you cleaned up. Besides, it’s a themed party tonight. ‘Flasks she just hasn’t given me a chance yet,” Jesse huffed, and Kade could hear him retreating down the hall. The sounds of Christian gargling and spitting in the bathroom sink across from his room were irritating, to say the least, so he reluctantly got himself out of bed.
“Alright, I’m getting up. Text me if there’s anything else you can think of that we need while I’m out.”
Making his way through the dark blue painted room, thankful that his dick had calmed down, Kade grabbed his jeans off the floor and a black sweater from his closet. It was the end of May in New Jersey, and although it was almost summer, the weather still warranted a sweater, if not his trusty leather jacket. It would always be a part of him since it was the one that his dad, Warren, gave him when he decided it was time for him to man up. The one that matched his brother’s. The jacket that had defined their lives, because being a part of the Renegade Rebels was a lifelong commitment. But Jagger had gotten out of the gang’s snare, and now Kade hoped to follow in his footsteps.
“Thanks, man! I’ll text you if I think of anything,” Chris called out from the bathroom. “I’m excited for tonight. I bet Alison will bring Maddie! You know, that cute redhead you’ve been pining for the last year?” Kade could hear the grin in Chris’s voice. “Maybe you’ll finally grow some balls and make a move tonight.”
The mention of Madison had all the blood rushing back to the center of his body, the fabric holding his cock stretching painfully around the obvious indication that he was still under the spell of last night’s findings.
Kade gritted his teeth, and a frustrated “ Goddamn it! ” pulled from his throat.
Chris’s laughter could be heard drifting down the hallway as Kade closed his eyes and started to count backward from twenty, a technique his dad used when he was trying really hard not to go to jail again.
He glanced down at his erection and sighed.
So much for that.