Page 122 of Paint the Town, Dove
His eyes were glossed over, pupils like coins dipped in ink. “Scarlett Blake.”
I spat out the words. “Emory-Blake,” then turned away from him. He grabbed my hand, saying some dumbass inaudible thing and I wrenched away from his grip. “Chew some gum before you bite through your tongue.”
Some heads looked familiar, but swaying bodies swallowed up the majority of my vision. Everyone looked like a blob of colours, strobe lights hurtling in every direction.
“Where the fuck are you, Ryden…” I gritted through clenched teeth, ducking below, shoving my way through mobs of bodies.
I didn’t even think to look up, where a crowd formed and chants cheered.Of course he wasn’t on the ground, I thought.Ryden was high.
Ryden wasalwayshigh.
My gaze trailed up, up –
Up.
And there he was.
I swallowed my rage like a bomb, willing it to detonate at the sight of him.
Ryden fucking Spectre. Naked torso slicked with sweat, two bottles in hand, a smirk so deadly it could kill the living –
We were always uniform, always in sync.
And when he searched for his target, his eyes found mine.
The air vanished from my lungs. “Ryden…”
“Finally,” he mouthed.
Chapter Thirty-Six
Ryden
“Let’s stay here, Dove, let’s stay here, Dove...”
Arc & Sheild Records:‘Paint the Town’
Composition By: Ryden Spectre
Alcohol was a poor excuse to do what I wanted, but it was the only way I knew how to be near her.
So if she wanted sober Spectre, she wasn’t finding him here.I wasn’t fucking ready.
And I’d be hammered out of my goddamn mind for a single second of her time.
…Without her looking at me like the mess that I am.
I stepped down off the table, chugging a glass of water to cool the buzz of coke and Cîroc.
Hands pawed at my chest, one girl linking her fingers through my chain. “Dance with me, Ryden.”
I flashed her a smile and shook my head, my gaze forever claiming Scarlett.
You think I want anyone but you? You don’t think I’m miserable without you? You don’t think I’m drowning out my feelings and you’re the water I want to soak in?
No, no. I could never tell her that.You can’t tell her that.
Because you don’t deserve her, do you? With all that she’s done, with how fucked in the head you are?
