01 Untouchable - Untouchable by Lindsay Delagair Read Free Book Online Page B

I shouldn’t have worried because she
had simply been out Ryan hunting. She came through the doors with
him on her arm like she was showing off a new piece of jewelry. I
started to duck my head behind Evan’s shoulder, which was more than
adequate to hide me, but it was too late, he spotted me. I thought
Jewels would spend most of the period making introductions, but
apparently Ryan had other plans as they reached our table in record
time.
    “ Hey everybody,” Jewels
bubbled over. “This is Ryan Faultz. Ryan, this is Natasha Green,
and…”
    “ Kevin and Carlie, right?”
Ryan beat Jewels to the intro. “They’re in my English class,” he
added.
    “ Oh,” Jewels said, suddenly
making the connection, “Then you must know Leese.”
    I watched his lips turn at
the corners in a slow smile, “No, I don’t know Leese …”
    I thought for a moment he was going to
be cool about the fact that I was sitting beside a guy with twice
his muscle mass and a protective stare, but I should have known
better.
    “ But I do know the lovely
Annalisa. We have chemistry…” he paused.
    What the crap was he talking about! My
eyes went large as I gave him the ‘I’d really like to slap you’
stare. Everyone, including Jewels, was silent for a split
second.
    Out of the corner of my eye I could see
Evan set down his sandwich, brush his palms together once, and push
himself away from the table.
    “ And English, psych, and
P.E. together,” he finished.
    I gave a little sigh of relief; he was
talking about our schedules.
    Evan was already in motion, standing up
and reaching out toward Ryan.
    “ And this is Evan Lewis,”
Jewels finished, apparently relieved that it was going to be a hand
shake and not a punch.
    “ Oh, so you’re Evan,” Ryan
said, as he accepted the hand shake. “Annalisa mentioned you during
English.”
    “ Really?” Evan got a strange
expression, and then glanced at me.
    I was waiting for the rest of it.
Surely Ryan was going to say that Evan’s name was mentioned in the
same sentence as ‘not my boyfriend,’ but to my disbelief he left
that tidbit out.
    “ I’m going to get something
to eat,” Ryan said as he motioned toward the line.
“Jewels?”
    “ No, I’m just going to grab
a diet coke from the machine.” She turned loose of his arm, but let
her fingers trail down his colorful tattoo. “You go
ahead.”
    Ryan was still waiting in line by the
time Jewels settled beside me on the bench. “Can you believe it?”
she asked, but didn’t wait for anyone to respond. “It’s like the
gods are dropping good looking guys from the sky! First Evan and
now Ryan—who’s going to enroll tomorrow? Brad Pitt?”
    I almost choked on my sandwich, “Jewels
he’s like in his forties.”
    “ Closer to fifty,” Kevin
added.
    “ Who cares!” was Jewels’
response. “He could be ninety as long as he still looks
twentyish.”
    “ That’s gross, Jewels.” I
looked at Evan and he had this funny smirk on his face. I knew it
had to be because Jewels had just classed him in a league with Brad
Pitt.
    Ryan was tolerable through lunch
although he kept looking over at me. Every time he did, Evan would
stare at him until he looked away. Finally, Jewels started asking
him about his tattoos and that seemed to stop the ‘look, stare,
glare,’ competition.
    “ I really want to get a
tattoo,” Jewels was saying. “But Daddy would kill me.”
    “ Don’t do that, Jewels,”
Kevin began. “They aren’t safe.”
    “ Yes they are,” Ryan
countered.
    “ No,” Kevin went on,
undeterred. “Some of the inks have metals in them. You can’t have
MRI’s or…”
    “ Wrong, little guy,” Ryan
cut him off. “I’ve had an MRI and there was no problem over my
tattoos.”
    I watched Carlie’s face darken with
anger; she didn’t like him belittling Kevin.
    Oops. I realized some of his
gorgeousness just dimmed in her eyes. Good, maybe Kevin wouldn’t
have anything to worry about in a while. Well, that was as