Twisted Devil by Ivy Blake

Chapter Eleven

Tyler

“Have you seen Ruby?” I asked Rob as we walked down the hallway to swim practice.

“Ruby from chemistry or Ruby from algebra?” A goofy smile spread across Rob’s face and he gave me a teasing look.

“You know which Ruby I’m talking about,” I growled. I looked around to see if anyone was tuned into our conversation. No one else needed to know that the ginger bitch had been on my mind all day. Not even Rob. But the way he was looking at me gave me the impression that he suspected this.

Of course, she’d only been on my mind because I hadn’t seen her in the hallways, at lunch or in class, which was odd to say the least. Ruby didn’t seem like the type to skip school. She also didn’t seem like the type to beat you at a fucking test, my conscience reminded me.

“Is there any particular reason why you’re looking for her?” Rob was taunting me even though he knew my patience was paper thin.

I rolled my eyes at him and pushed open the door in front of us. “What can I say? I enjoy making her life hell.”

I loved the look on her face when she saw me and the fear instantly took over her expressions and she looked like a helpless animal about to be slaughtered. I wouldn’t stop until I had crushed her completely. But it was fucking hard to do that when she wasn’t at school.

“Are you still pretending that your obsession is only one of pure hatred?” Rob asked, cocking a thick eyebrow.

“I’m not obsessed!” I snapped. “Ruby just needs to know her fucking place and I seem to be the only one who can put her in it.” I pushed my shoulder into the changing room door and walked in, hoping that the guys inside hadn’t heard our conversation.

“Alright, if you say so,” Rob said sarcastically, and even though I was no longer looking at him, I got the sense that his hands were probably raised in surrender. “I don’t know where she is, anyway.”

I opened up my locker with a clang, ignoring the looks from the other guys on the team as they started getting undressed. At least they knew not to get in the way when I was feeling like tearing everything to shreds.

As I started unbuttoning my shirt, I tried to figure out why I was feeling so pent up and aggressive. What had gotten me so pissed off this time? Had it been the fact that Ruby wasn’t in school and I couldn’t antagonise her? Or was it the fact that Rob had accused me of being obsessed with her?

I looked sideways at Rob as he got changed and wondered what he must have been seeing from the outside to come to that conclusion. Or maybe he was just taking the piss as usual. So why did I feel such a tight feeling in my chest?

My mind drifted back to the last time I saw Ruby, lingering on how smooth her skin had been and how her wet hair had hung in ringlets around her face. An involuntary smile quirked at my lips as I remembered how scared and desperate she’d been for me to return her clothes. In that moment, I’d had complete power and authority over her and I probably could have told her to do anything and she would have, she’d practically been begging me and I couldn’t help but wonder what it would sound like having her beg for something else instead. That would explain the excitement that had taken over my body at seeing her naked…

“Yo, Katz, you ready to go?”

I snapped out of my daydream and looked over at Rob. He was gesturing to the door that led to the pool and I was mortified to see his eyes fall to my crotch before he sniggered.

My hands flew to my junk to cover my quickly growing erection, and I cleared my throat with purpose as if my friend hadn’t witnessed me getting a hard on in a changing room full of guys that I wasn’t attracted to in the least. Great.

“I’ll be there in a minute. You go on without me,” I said quickly. I turned around so that my back was to him while I negotiated with my erection.

Of all the places. And of all the people. Why Ruby? Pauper. The same girl who thought she was worth something just because she beat me at some dumb test.

You know why,my conscience taunted me. The idea of having complete power over her, of making Ruby completely submit to you, is too much for you to handle. It’s going to drive you insane if you’re not careful.

I was tempted to lock myself up in a bathroom stall once everyone had left so that I could beat one out just for the sake of quieting the hunger that threatened to consume my body. It had nothing to do with Ruby as a person. I couldn’t give a flying fuck about her, but that didn’t stop the natural animalistic instinct that was growing inside of me that longed to push her to her absolute limits and to overpower her.

“Katz! Why are you pussyfooting around?” My head snapped to the door to see Coach Jenkins standing with his hands folded over his chest, looking less than impressed. The disappointed look on his face was enough to quiet the lewd thoughts of Ruby that were circling around my head.

“Sorry Coach, I’ll be out now,” I said quickly, hoping that he wasn’t in the mood to throw insults or have a fight today. Coach’s moods were known to change more quickly than the weather and even though I was his star athlete, even I had grown used to trying to weather his various storms.

“Hurry your ass up,” he grunted before allowing the door to slam shut behind him on his way out. I breathed a sigh of relief that today had been a lucky day and finished getting changed, cursing Ruby the whole entire time.