Without warning, I reached down and gave her ass a hard smack.
"That's for spray painting my car," I said.
Her breath hitched, and she bit her lip, trying to suppress a smile. "You're such a caveman."
"Caveman? How about this?" I said, smacking her...
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UNKNOWN'S POV
There she is.
Esmeralda Kensington.
Trevor's precious little sister. The one he keeps tucked away like a prized possession, a delicate doll he thinks he can protect from the real world.
How fucking adorable.
She doesn't even know I'm watching. Doesn't sense me standing just out of sight, hidden in the shifting shadows of campus, studying the way she storms out of that security office—livid, distracted, vulnerable.
This is perfect.
I take a slow drag of my cigarette, exhaling through my nose as my lips curl into a smirk.
She's exactly how I imagined her.
Trevor always made it sound like his baby sister was untouchable, too perfect for the filth of the world he slithers through. But looking at her now? She's just another girl—flushed with anger, fire in her eyes, wrapped up in emotions she can't control. So easy to manipulate.
So fucking easy to break.
I track her every movement as she pushes through the doors and steps into the golden light of the setting sun. She's looking around, but she's not looking for me.
That's her first mistake.
She starts walking—fast, irritated, the kind of anger that makes people reckless. She's not even paying attention to where she's going.
That's her second mistake.
I push off the wall, flicking my cigarette to the ground and grinding it out with my boot.
She's alone.
And that's her biggest fucking mistake.
Trevor isn't here to watch over her. Caleb isn't here to hover like a guard dog.
It's just her.
And me.
I move, trailing a safe distance behind her, watching the way she keeps glancing at the ground, lost in her head. So oblivious.
So fucking ripe for the taking.
She's probably thinking about whatever bullshit just went down in that security office. Maybe about her brother's desperate attempts to keep her out of trouble. Maybe about Caleb fucking Fergusson, who has no idea the kind of mess he's dragging her into.
