Page 8 of Bittersweet Revenge
“Who she fucks is up to her…but it won’t be me. I don’t swing that way.” I pop a chip into my mouth and see Tiernan’sexpression change, his pupils blowing wide, something like interest or curiosity in his gaze. Is it due to finding out I’m gay, or because I’m not responding to him the way he expects me to?
“Now you know he’s gonna want to fuck you, right?” Cillian tells me.
“Who are we fucking?” Rory approaches, his red hair messy.
Tiernan’s wearing black jeans and a tight, black button-up shirt that’s rolled up to his elbows. The other two are in jeans and tees, but it’s all high-quality shit.
“No one yet.” Cillian pumps his brows.
“These idiots have this thing where they like to screw girls together,” Aislin tells me.
“Why the fuck you spilling our secrets?” Rory asks, then sits. “Who the fuck are you?”
“Dean,” Tiernan answers for me.
“Who the fuck is Dean?” Rory asks again, stealing one of Aislin’s chips.
“Some asshole.” Cillian sits down too.
“Fuck you,” I reply, and the table goes quiet. Yeah, the three of them aren’t used to someone talking to them like this, but I’m not going to sit around and take their shit.
“Be careful, New Kid,” Tiernan warns. “You don’t want to talk like that to the wrong person and get yourself hurt.” He doesn’t blink when he looks at me, just holding my stare like a fucking psycho.
Aislin pushes to her feet. “I hate all of you. If you’re not careful,I’mgoing to hurtyou.” She turns to me. “Come on, Dean. Let’s go outside.”
I should stay. I don’t want to give the impression they’ve sent me running, or that I’m scared, and I also need to find a way to get in. What I’m doing now isn’t fucking that, but my stomach is also twisting. I feel sick seeing him, hell, even breathing the same air as him.
I stand up, grab my food, and wrap it up. I don’t keep mine like Aislin does, tossing it into the trash as we head toward the door.
I feel Tiernan’s eyes on me the whole time.
When we get outside, Aislin says, “Hey…I know this sounds weird, but be careful with them, okay? You’re new, so you don’t know how it works, but they have a lot of pull. My brother and his friends…don’t get on their bad side.”
I nod at her warning, knowing I won’t listen. They’re the reason I’m here. It’s them who should fear me.
“I, um…should go. I don’t feel all that great.”
Aislin nods, and without another word, I walk away.
CHAPTER THREE
Tiernan
“Why are yousuch a dick?” Aislin pushes into my room in the off-campus house I share with Cillian and Rory.
I’m sitting on my bed, with my back against the headboard, and set my book on the mattress beside me. “It’s good to see you too, sis. How have your first few days of college been?”
She rolls her eyes. “I’m serious, T. Why are you such a dick?”
“Have you met our father?”
My reply elicits a sigh, and she walks over and sits on the bed beside me. “We don’t have to be like him here.”
I have to be like him everywhere. “Who said I don’t want to?” When she doesn’t answer, I add, “I don’t know him.” It’s as far as I’ll go in explaining myself, and no one other than her would have even gotten that much out of me.
“That’s because he’s a freshman, dumbass.”
“Yeah, but he was the only freshman sitting at a table with my little sister. It’s my job to keep an eye on you.”
