Claiming What's His by Melissa Phillips Read Free Book Online Page B

feelings she had for him were… different.  Good different.
    As the years passed, her feelings for him grew more and more each time they were together. 
    And they were together a lot.
    The taunting and the teasing never stopped, but they were a little more touchy-feely stuff than usual.
    Every home football game they went to they always made out under the bleachers before and after the game and during half-time.
    What could she say?  Alex was one heck of a kisser. 
    It was Sam’s freshman year in high school that she knew she had a crush on Alex.  A real girl-love crush.  It took her a long time, but she realized that her feelings for him had grown over the years.  Who would’ve thought that she would have a crush on Alex?
    The Alexander Conrad.
    As in her best friend’s cousin.
    Every teenage girl’s crush.
    Go figure.
    Things continued to get hot and heavy for them for a couple of years and even though there were people who constantly kept telling her that it was a bad idea to get involved with him, Sam didn’t care.  She knew who Alex was and how he treated her and that was all that had mattered to her.
    Their make-out sessions stopped during her junior (he was a sophomore in college) when he starting dating a high school senior and a total bitch named Lynn Summers.
    Lynn had just moved to Comfort that summer and Alex immediately noticed her but, for some reason, he didn’t make his move on her immediately.  It seemed as if he was waiting for that right moment to approach her.  Sam didn’t realize that guys had timing, nor patience.  She had just assumed they saw, they like, they went, they take.
    Their  situation escalated when he brought Lynn to Maggie’s seventeenth birthday party.  Lynn had heard about their infamous make-out sessions under the bleachers and warned Sam off him.  Then she ‘accidentally’ spilled her drink on Sam’s new dress that she had saved for from doing random chores and jobs in order to buy and wear to Maggie’s big night.
    The tiger awoken within Sam and she launched herself on Lynn, making them both fall back, Sam on top of Lynn, getting a few good smacks on Lynn’s face before an arm wrapped around Sam’s waist and she was lifted off Lynn.  Sam briefly glance back to see it was Alex.
    Once she was off, he threw her (literally threw her) aside, to where Sam stumbled toward the couch, almost falling to her hands and knees (if the couch hadn’t been there).  Sam stood straight on her weak legs, accessing on the situation that had just occurred.
    Why did Alex throw her aside?  Alex had never handled her that way before and it immediately scared the hell out of Sam.  This was a side of him that Sam had never seen before and she couldn’t believe he did that to her.  They have done many vicious things to one another, but never have any of them been physically rough.  This was when she began to get a little worried (and more scared than ever) that her relationship with Alex had changed.
    Lynn had ran up to Alex, wrapped her arms around his waist, and looked up to him, orchestrated her sob story (with fake tears, no less), telling him that Sam attacked her first because Sam was jealous and that Sam had threatened to hurt her if she didn’t break up with Alex.  She did all that while her arms tightly clung to his waist and she turned on her puppy dog eyes.
    What a bunch of bologne!  If he had taken a second to glance at her insincere face, he could have seen the face expression.
    After she finished reciting her story, Alex shifted his hard, cold eyes on Sam, making her take a small step back.  She went pale and tried to swallow the lump in her throat.  She couldn’t.
    The air in the room shifted, growing thick and cold. 
    Ice cold.  
    Then it hit Sam.
    As she stared into his eyes and the Alex she once knew, who never once looked at her the way he was looking at her now regardless of what she did, was gone.  This was a completely new and unfamiliar Alex