Kill Switch by Penelope Douglas

Call it arrogance. All I knew was that I didn’t like the
taunts directed at her when the guys noticed her.
No, scratch that.
I didn’t like anyone else taunting her.
And I really didn’t like another man coming to her rescue,
even if it was Will.
And fuck her dad. He wouldn’t take out a restraining order
on me. The alumni liked winning games, didn’t they? Michael,
Kai, Will, and me…We were given very long leashes as long
we kept doing our jobs. He didn’t have the guts.
We headed around the circular driveway, “Bad Company”
by Five Finger Death Punch drifting up from the backyard as
we walked past the dumbass marble fountain with four horses
spitting water and fat cherubs posing up on the higher tier. It
was the type of ugly shit Americans put on their property
when they wanted to look European, but it just kind of came
off looking like a trailer park bird bath, only bigger.
GGriffin Ashby was a poser. And even if he could like me, I
still wouldn’t be able to stand him. Luckily, he was in
Meridian City for the weekend, his wife having gone with
him, and their eldest daughter Arion decided to have a pool
party tonight. Hopefully Winter hadn’t gone with her parents. I
wanted to talk to her again. See how long it would exactly take
to get inside her head and fuck shit up.
“Hey!” I heard Will bark as we walked. “Whoa, whoa,
whoa, come here!”
I looked over, seeing him grab a kid by the shirt and stop
him as he headed through the driveway, trying to leave.
I instantly recognized him. Misha, his little cousin.
GGrandson of a state senator but looked more like the prodigy
of Sid and Nancy.
“What the hell are you doing here?” Will asked him.
“You’re like twelve.”
“And?”
Smart-ass kid.