Glass Heart Hero: A Dark High School Romance by Lindsey Iler (free ebook reader for iphone .TXT) 📕

the words, and by the disappointment in her eyes, I’d say she feels it.

“Your secrets are safe with me, but I’m not the one you need to be worried about,” Madison explains matter-of-fact.

Breaker hunches forward, uncertainty and confusion etched in the corners of his eyes. If our secrets are safe with her, then who else do we have to worry about? Anyone who knows what happened that night, who bore witness and heard the story, would never speak about it.

“Holy shit! Do I need to spell it out for you?” Madison slams her hand on the table.

“Yeah, sweetheart, you just may need to,” Byron says, gripping tight to the arms of her chair. He spins her around, making the metal feet grind on the tile floor. “Spell it out.”

Madison bites the inside of her cheeks, and her breathing becomes labored under the microscope that is Byron Decatur.

“She doesn’t need to,” Dixon interrupts. “We have a weak link in the group.”

“And who the hell is that?” Breaker stands, pacing the length of the table. I reach out to stop him, and he takes my hand. “Someone speak, because once again, one of us is in danger of being charged with murder, and this time it isn’t a fucking lie.”

“I’ll handle it,” Dixon says, bolting out of the room.

Breaker’s fast, bustling behind him before jumping to block his path. “I don’t think so. Tell us what’s going on.”

“It’s fucking Reagan!” Madison shouts.

“What?” I gasp.

“There’s no way,” Breaker says in disbelief.

“There’s been whispers,” Madison adds.

“She’s cut us all off, little to no communication.” As the words leave my mouth, I realize we do have a weak link, and it comes in the form of a lost girl who barely knows who she is. “It makes sense.”

“I said I’ll handle it.” Dixon grinds his teeth together, and his nostrils flare with anger.

“You better handle it, Dixon, because we don’t have any room for error with this one,” Breaker warns.

“I’ll shut her up myself, okay?” He spins away fast, but I catch it. The worry and hurt. The anger and resentment. I’m not fully sure where it’s aimed. At us or at her.

Madison spends the next hour explaining the small conversations she’s had with Reagan. The signs have always been there. She’s been mixed up in our mess since the beginning, but none of us have noticed the emotional toll it has taken. The boys’ secrets are heavy. If you aren’t equipped to hold most of the weight, you’ll never survive.

Once we’ve run out of things to say, Byron goes to his room without saying anything else to Madison. She looks hurt. A part of me wants to warn her not to get mixed up with him, but parts of me root for Byron to become someone worth loving.

“I’m going to head out.” Madison hugs Breaker and me. She holds on extra tight to Breaker, but once again, there is no jealousy. She whispers something in his ear. I’m too far away to hear her.

I walk to the fridge, looking for a distraction. Fumbling with the milk, I drop it. Cold liquid pools at my feet, covering the tile. Frazzled, I reach for the paper towels.

Breaker takes the soaked clump from my hand. “Everything’s going to be okay,” he says, helping me to my feet.

“I just got you back. This is the first time in a long time that there isn’t something. We can be us.” I reach up to dry my tears. Breaker draws me tight against his chest. “We can walk hand-in-hand on campus and spend our weekends in bed. You can flirt with me across the table in the library and try to pretend you don’t feel my foot rubbing against your leg. This is it. We get to love each other freely, nothing to get in the way, and now, this.”

“Baby, we can still do all of that.” At his promise, I look up, hoping to see the same confidence in his pretty eyes that I hear in his words. It’s there. He cups my cheeks, allowing the cool metal from his rings to remove the heat from my face. “I swear, everything’s going to be fine.”

“If you say so.” I kiss him.

Footsteps bound through the house. Dixon comes into the kitchen, his jacket slung over his shoulder. Where is he off to in such a hurry?

“This”—Dixon points at us—“is protected. I’ll make sure of it.”

“How do you plan on doing that?” I ask, needing to know. There’s no way I’m allowing him to go rogue when it’s Breaker’s life in the balance.

“I have my ways of shutting girls up, Delaney. Trust me.” He rushes through the kitchen to grab his keys from the foyer table.

“No blood, Dixon. I mean it!” I yell after him.

His head pops around the corner. He’s grinning like a cat that found his favorite mouse to bat around the hallways. “She’ll have wished I shed some blood when I’m finished with her.”

He’s gone as quick as he came.

“What the fuck does that even mean?” I say, turning to Breaker. He’s bent down, cleaning up my mess. “And why does he look so happy?”

With a sweet but sinister smile, he gazes up at me. “I think it’s better for you not to know for now.”

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