The Officer's Promise (Brothers in Blue Book 1) (18 page)

I chuckle and wait for her to enter on her side before I say, “You’re being ridiculous. He isn’t going to murder you for heaven’s sake, and why don’t you just apologize?”

She grunts. “You don’t know him. I have gone to school with that guy most of my life. Believe me, he’s capable of it.”

I shake my head, finding it hard to believe after what he just did for me. “What does he look like?” I ask, curious.

“He’s tall, like taller than most of the guys in our grade. He’s ripped but lean, not bulky. Brown, messy hair, and green eyes, olive complexion… Girl, there are just no words for a specimen like him. His sexiness cannot be described.”

I try to picture what she just said, but can’t. I was so young when I lost my vision that most of the time I’m not even sure if what I remember is real.

“But,” Cece adds, breaking into my thoughts, “he’s intimidating as hell. I’m serious, Emily, he doesn’t live the same lifestyle as us. I would make sure to stay as far away from him as you can.”

“What do you mean?” I ask, even though I know exactly what she’s saying.

“He lives on the other side of the railway tracks,” she explains, talking about the lower income part of the city. “His parents are real white trash. I remember when we were kids he used to come to school with bruises and black eyes. Rumor has it they were from his dad, which doesn’t surprise me. Like I said, they’re trash. He definitely doesn’t fit into our world.”

This is one of those times where I don’t even relate with Cece. I love her, I really do, but even her beliefs are skewed from our upbringing—labeling two worlds and thinking you can’t intermingle. I would give up this world I live in if it meant having loving parents that weren’t ashamed of me. But not Cece, I don’t think she could ever live without the status and money.

My heart breaks to think of someone hurting Ryder, especially when he was a boy. My parents are very cruel, but they have never laid a hand on me. Heck, most of the time they ignore me.

“I guess we have trigonometry together, but I’m sure after you thumped the crap out of him with your purse he probably won’t come anywhere near me now anyway.”

She grunts. “I guess one good thing came out of it then.”

I don’t respond, because the very idea of not getting to talk to Ryder again bothers me for some reason.

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