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The Other Game (The Perfect Game #4)(9)
Author: J. Sterling

Melissa nodded. “Exactly! That’s what I don’t get either, but I’ve stopped trying to figure it out because everything about Jack Fucking Carter gives me a headache. Except this stuff with Cassie. Because I’ve never seen him act like this before.”

“Me either,” I admitted as we caught up to the small group of people.

“Really?” She shot me a look.

“Swear.”

“I enjoy my dates to be disease-free,” Cassie shouted, drawing our attention.

“As do I,” my brother shot back, giving a head nod to someone who walked by.

Cassie belted out a laugh. “Right. I’ve heard you’re not really particular about who you date.”

He took a step closer and said, “Well, you heard wrong then.”

“Oh, that’s right. Actually I heard you don’t date at all. You just sleep with any girl who bats her fake eyelashes in your direction.”

“Ooh,” Melissa whispered at me, and squeezed my arm.

“I really need to meet your sources,” my brother said with a grin.

Cassie mumbled something under her breath before turning her back to Jack and storming away. The second I thought it might be over, he took off after her, clearly intent on winning this battle.

I glanced at Melissa once they disappeared inside the building.

She grabbed my hand, pulling me along with her. “We’ve come this far,” she said as she opened the doors and stepped inside.

I had no clue where Jack and Cassie had gone until I heard my brother’s voice again coming from a nearby classroom.

“Don’t make me beg, Kitten. Don’t make me beg in front of all these people. It’s embarrassing.”

Melissa and I ran down the hallway and stood in the classroom’s open doorway like we were watching a live play.

“I’ll go out with you, Jack,” some other girl shouted from her seat, and Melissa rolled her eyes at me.

“Typical,” she whispered.

“Perfect! I’m sure you two will have a great time together.” Cassie dropped into her seat and tried to bury her head.

Jack used the moment to his advantage and crouched next to her, whispering something none of us could hear.

“Ooh, he’s good,” Melissa cooed, and I wondered what exactly he was saying to Cassie.

“What are you doing? Get out of here,” Cassie tried to whisper back, but the pitch of her voice carried.

Jack said something else to Cassie, and when we couldn’t make it out, Melissa stomped a foot in irritation. “I want to hear, dang it.”

“Promise you I’ll think about going out with the school’s biggest player?” Cassie said as Jack knelt next to her, his face so close to hers I thought she might hit him. “Oh, sure, I’ll think about it.”

“Promise me,” he demanded, his insistence unrelenting.

Blinking rapidly, Cassie glanced around the room before looking at Jack. “Fine. I promise I’ll think about it. Will you go away now?”

A wide grin appeared on Jack’s face as he stood up without another word and walked out of the classroom.

“Told you,” he said as he passed me, not slowing his pace.

“She said she’d think about it,” I yelled as I caught up to him.

“She’ll go, just watch. Won’t she, Meli?” Jack said over his shoulder.

“Probably,” Melissa said from behind us, hurrying to catch up.

We headed outside and followed Jack toward a cement bench, where he pulled his baseball hat even lower over his eyes. Then he sat down and looked up at us, his eyes all but hidden.

“What are you doing?” I asked, expecting him to get up and continue walking back to the student union with us.

“Waiting.”

“For what?”

“Her class to end. I’m going to ask her out in front of everyone. She won’t be able to say no then,” Jack said with a big grin.

“Make sure you show those.” Melissa pointed at the pair of dimples on his face, and his grin only widened.

“I knew you secretly liked me. But I know you like him more.” Jack nodded toward me, and Melissa scowled.

“Don’t listen to him.” I threw my arm around her shoulder and steered her back toward the student union. “See you at home, brother.”

“‘Bye, you two lovebirds.”

“You’re so little.” I looked down at Melissa and smiled, wishing for once that I’d been born with at least one dimple for her to admire.

She scowled again. “I’m not that little.”

But she was. I was six feet tall, and she might hit five feet if she stood on tiptoe. I towered over her, and I loved the manly feeling it gave it me.

“Do you have any more classes today?” I asked.

“Nope. You?”

“Just one.”

“Sucks.”

“Only because it’s not the class I have with you,” I said with a smile, and she swatted my shoulder.

“Dean Carter, did you just feed me a line?”

I chuckled and stopped walking. “No. Did it sound like a line?”

“Yes.” Melissa smiled, but kept walking.

I watched as her perfect little butt moved with each step she took, her entire body sashaying like it couldn’t help it. She stopped and turned around to catch me staring.

“What are you looking at?”

Terrified that she might think I was some sort of pig like my brother, I practically stuttered. “Uh, nothing.”

   
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