The Ruthless Note by Nelia Alarcon EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Nelia Alarcon
- Language: English
- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Fiction on Bullying
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CADENCE
The crescendo is my favorite part of a musical piece.
It’s like gathering electricity, the kind that builds and builds until it
buzzes through your entire body. Until everywhere, from your fingers to
your toes is on fire. Different from a climax, it isn’t the peak. It’s not the
part that will rip the audience’s breath from their throats or cause a tear to
fall from their eye.
It’s the build-up.
And it’s special because only the musician knows it’s coming. A secret
trapped in her hands, in her mind, in her piano. A shifting in the air that
makes the audience nervous. Makes their throats bob and their eyes dart
from side to side.
A rubber band pulling back, back, back.
No one is sure when it will snap.
No one can do anything about it.
In that moment, in the crescendo, the people who are listening… they’re
under my control.
I feel that electricity when Dutch storms down the bleachers, his amber
eyes hot enough to burn me to a crisp.
His boots hit the metal stands in loud thuds. Thump. Thump. Rhythmic
percussions. Students jump out of his way, knowing he won’t stop.
Knowing they’ll get crushed like cockroaches if they’re stupid enough to
remain in place.
I watch the wave that flows and ebbs around Dutch’s descent. The air
around him is charged. Musical notes pluck through my mind. The
shrieking melody of an electric guitar to match the frantic pace of his
footsteps. His boots land on the gym floor and he barrels at me like a bull
seeing red.
For a moment, my breath clogs in my throat.
The Prince of Redwood Prep.
Dangerous.
Beastly.
Violent.
There’s a weight to Dutch that goes far beyond the wide chest and
shoulders straining against his preppy vest, an intensity that has nothing to
do with the slightly unhinged glint in his eyes or the hardness in the planes
of his face.
Can I really do this? Can I go toe-to-toe with a ruthless king like him?
Brushing the thought away quickly, I square my shoulders. There is no
other choice. He didn’t give me another choice.
“Do you need something, Dutch?” I ask coldly.
His eyes drill into mine with the precision of a laser. His voice sounds
like it’s scraping against shards of broken glass when he hisses, “Who the
hell are you?”
My heart wobbles, but I beat it back into submission. Nights ago, after
dropping my defenses—and almost dropping my panties—I found out
swiftly that Dutch Cross would stop at nothing to destroy me. He made the
call to get me kicked out of Redwood. He didn’t give a damn about what
that would do to me, to my future or to my family.
He cares about only one thing: himself.
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