Page 114 of Never Sleep with the Enemy

“Nothing was going on...then,” I say. “But?—”

“Sure as shit is now, isn’t it?”

His scoff is sharp and dismissive as he turns away.

My chest tightens. “It’s complicated, okay?”

He turns back, eyes burning. “Are you sleeping with him?”

My mouth snaps shut.

“Knox,” Jordan warns.

But he doesn’t look away from me. “Not all that complicated after all,” he says, the hard lines of his face digging deeper.

I take a breath, but it barely steadies me. “Yes,” I say, voice shaking. “Logan and I have gotten close, but that doesn’t?—”

“How long?”

“How long?”

“How long have you been fucking him, Kat?”

“Come on, Knox,” Addison says, her expression finally softening. “Let’s just?—”

“No, I wanna know.” He squares up at me. “Is this a recent thing? Or were you sneaking around together on tour, too?”

“No,” I say. “Of course we weren’t.”

Knox laughs, humorless. “Makes perfect sense in hindsight.” His voice is tight, furious. “You were always defending them. Always telling us to see thegoodin them. Tell us, sister—while the rest of us were freaking out about the bug on our tour bus, were you laughing about it with Logan?”

“What?” My stomach drops. “No.I wasn’t laughing about it with Logan.”

“For all we know, you were in on it the whole time. Probably even planted the thing yourself.”

“How could you eventhink?—”

“How long, Katrina?!”

“None of your damn business, Knox!”The words rip out of me, tears burning my eyes. “You have no right to judge me.”

He snorts. “I don’t?”

“No. You don’t.” I scan their silent faces. “None of you do. How many of our rules did you all break this summer? Because I seem to recall everyone spending the tour pissing all over them! But now that it’s perfect little Katrina’s turn, it’s suddenly a problem? I call bullshit.”

“You think we care about some stupid rules?” Knox asks, incredulous.

“You clearly don’t. You’re the reason we have rules in the first place!”

“I’m no saint, sure. But you’re different. You’re supposed to be?—”

“What?” My voice pitches higher. “Who am I supposed to befor you,Knox? Your innocent baby sister? Never does anything wrong? Always does what she’s told while you go off and fuck up whatever you want? Did you really expect me to be that way forever?”

Knox’s nostrils flare. “You can be whoever the hell you want to be, Katrina!” He throws his arms wide in frustration. “Pork every guy on The fucking Strip for all I care! But not him.Not him.”His jaw flexes. “You crossed the line.”

“Okay,”Jordan says sharply, stepping between us, her hands raised. “We’re getting a bit heated here, so let’s all just take a breath for a second.” She turns to me, her voice softer. “Katrina, all of us are just worried about you, all right? We just want to make sure you’re okay.”

“Oh, that’s nice,” I say, the fire in my chest still raging. “You’re all just worried about me. You caresomuch. Since fucking when?”

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