Crap. She’s got me. It’s true. “Hey—in no way are you being replaced. I love you. And just because I have room in my heart for one more person doesn’t change that.”
“Wow,” she marvels, blinking back tears. “Who died and made you the king of mush?”
“So, we’re good?” Harper gives Trixie’s sleeve a quick tug. Her eyes are glittering with tears too.
“Yes.” Trixie makes a face. “You know, I never really liked Janelle. I don’t know why, but we never clicked. Maybe you and I can hang out sometime—without the giant toad following us around. I’m in Cutler Tower, so maybe you could meet me at Hallowed Grounds once in a while? I’ll tell you all those deep, dark secrets Knox is too ashamed to let out.”
“Don’t you dare.” I glance to Harper. “Not that there are any.”
“I’m definitely taking you up on it. And by the way, I’m in Prescott Hall. I’m sharing a room with an old friend of mine.”
Trixie’s eyes explode in size. “I thought you two—”
“We’re not living together,” I offer. “Harper thought it was best to take things slow.”
“I’m all about the mysteries and mud masks, if you know what I mean.” She winks at my sister. “Plus, I’ll probably still be at his place more than mine anyway.”
“Like every night.” I frown at my sister. “So don’t use that key I gave you, just in case.”
“Eww.” She looks as if she’s ready to puke. “Well, I’d better get in there. My new roommate is already on the prowl, and I have some catching up to do.”
A groan comes from deep within me. “No, Trix. Stay away from the boys. The guys in there are animals.”
“It’s true.” Harper laughs as if she knows firsthand, and she does. “They’re all hungry, ravenous bears, and they’re hungry for human flesh—especially young, tasty girls with long legs and big—”
“All right”—I wraps my arms around Harper—“this is my baby sister we’re talking to. Let’s keep it G.”
“I’m no baby.” Trixie eyes the crowd as if she’s going in for the kill.
“Whoa, slow your roll. This isn’t high school. You’re not going to run in there and tease some poor kid to death. These boys move fast and you don’t. I want to keep it that way.” I know for a fact Trixie is a virgin. She’s saving herself for love, not giving it away to any idiot she sees. “Stay away from the frat boys. Hell, stay far away from the jocks. And whatever the hell you do, don’t come near those eligible idiots I hang out with. You need a nice kid—someone untarnished by life, and there’s no one who fits the bill at Briggs. Sorry, sis. You’re out of luck.”
Trixie’s mouth opens slow in some incredulous sarcastic smile as if everything I said was laughable. “Maybe you’re the one out of luck, Knox. I’ll see you both later.” She dives into the crowd, and I lose sight of her. A part of me wants to dive right in there, wrap my arms around her and keep her safe from all the hurt, all the psychos in the world, and that’s just the dudes at Briggs.
Harper inches me to the door. “Boy, you are going to die a slow and agonizing death when she finally finds the one.”
“Not true. I happen to know for a fact Trixie’s personality is inhospitable to the male species. There’s no way she’s finding the one at Briggs. She’s a castrator, a walking dominatrix. No dude is going to want to hand over his balls just because she says so. I’m safe right through grad school with her. Trust me on that.”
Harper bubbles with a laugh as we step out into the balmy night air. A floral perfume replaces the scent of pizza and beer as the rowdy bar gives way to the final Saturday night of summer vacation.
“It’s been a long, hot summer,” Harper moans low and sexy as hell, and my balls ache just to hear it. “Sylvia is in desperate need of a massage. Do you think Will might be able to help her with that?”
“Will is already up and looking forward to it. I might sneak a few kisses to Sylvia myself.”
“Sylvia will most definitely hold you to it and to her. She happens to have a mean crush on you, but don’t tell Will. They seem to have a pretty good thing going.”
“They do, I agree.” I spin her around until we’re standing in front of the mascot of the establishment, an old oversized black bear that stands more than ten feet tall. “I think we have a pretty good thing going too. How about a quick selfie for old times’ sake?”
She whips out her phone and snaps it. “Done and done.” Her thumbs dance across the screen like lightning, and she holds up the caption for me to see.
“Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Girl seeks revenge. Boy gets girl back. Revenge zero. Love plus two. Hashtag scariest photobomb ever.” My chest rumbles over her as we share a quiet laugh. “It’s perfect. Just like we are.”
“We are perfect, aren’t we? Isn’t it ironic something so whole and beautiful came from something broken? If our relationship with the two that shall not be named kept plodding along, we never would have been linked the way we were.”
“By hatred and fueled by revenge.” I nod into this. “The universe sure has its mysterious ways. I think it’s a good lesson. Next time things look like they’re in the shitter, it might just be the best thing that’s ever happened to you.”
“So essentially—hard to see at the moment.” Her cheeks turn bright pink. “Confession. That first night at the mixer when you were making me insane—I thought you were a perfect specimen. And it turns out I was right as usual.”
We share another laugh and I scoop Harper up and carry her down the street, bouncing her in my arms as we share kisses, and hopes, and dreams.
With Harper near me, all of my hopes and dreams have already come true.
I can’t wait to see what the future holds.
I know for a fact I’m holding my future.
A Note from the Author
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Acknowledgments
I hope you all enjoyed Knox and Harper’s love story! Thank you so much for reading REVENGE KISSES! Harper’s caustic tongue made it a lot of fun for me to hang out with these two, and I hope it was the same for you.
A special thank you to my street team, Addison’s Angels, for helping me get the word out and filling in all the pimping blanks when I had no clue how to do them. Your help has been invaluable!
A very big thank you to Lisa Markson for shining your beautiful eyes on this and giving me an enthusiastic thumbs-up. You are so very special to me. I’m so glad you are whole and healthy and reading books just the way God intended you to be!
Thank you so much to Tabby Coots for your ninja beta skills and for giving me your insight. I really appreciate you going through the book!
To the wonderful Kaila Eileen Turingan-Ramos! Thank you simply isn’t enough. I appreciate your beautiful eyes more than you know!
A super special thank you to Kathryn Jacoby for not letting anything stop you from doing what you want. I love you! Stay strong and fight.
To my super amazing editor, Paige Maroney Smith, you are the best. Thank you for always making room for me and best of all for helping me sparkle and shine. You are an angel of the highest order. I am so blessed to have you!
And last, but never least, thank you to Him who sits on the throne. Worthy is the Lamb! Glory and honor and power are yours. I owe you everything.
About the Author
Addison Moore is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author who writes contemporary and paranormal romance. Her work has been featured in Cosmopolitan Magazine. Previously she worked as a therapist on a locked psychiatric unit for nearly a decade. She resides on the West Coast with her husband, four wonderful children, and two dogs where she eats too much chocolate and stays up way too late. When she's not writing, she's reading. Addison’s Celestra Series has been optioned for film by 20th Century Fox.
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