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didn’t think I needed to ask you not to. You know I don’t want him in our lives. Venus has nothing to do with him. She’s our problem.”
    “I know that.” She looked down, not knowing what else to say. He was right, but he was being unfair about it.
    She heard Adin walking back over to her. He sat down, but she didn’t look at him. “Legacy, it’s just that I know River will do and say whatever he can to get into your heart. Now that he knows about Venus, he can do some serious damage to us.”
    “What do you mean?” She looked up and Adin’s face was still hard, teeth clenching, but his eyes held a hint of sadness.
    “He can tell you things you don’t want to hear—things that aren’t true—to make you lose faith in me. It’s just another way for him to come between us.”
    “But he helps me,” she whispered.
    “I know!” Adin yelled, looking away from her again.
    His tone caught her by surprise again. “What’s wrong?” she demanded.
    “I don’t want to talk about River.”
    “I know you don’t like River, but he isn’t what’s bothering you. Something else is. I can tell because you’re being a prick. Now, what is it?” Then it hit her, and she gasped. Adin’s eyes slowly made their way to hers. “You saw Venus.”
    “You know I have classes with her,” he retorted.
    Well, that was an evasive response. “That’s not what I meant. Did you talk to her?”
    “Yes.”
    “What about?”
    “She wanted to talk about you.”
    “What about me?” Of course the heifer wanted to know about Legacy.
    “She asked a lot of things. How long we’ve been together. How I feel about you. Things like that.”
    “Hmmm.” She nodded. She could feel the irritation building inside her.
    Adin looked at her, and he still looked mad. “But I didn’t tell her anything. I told her that you were none of her business.”
    “Great! So now she thinks you don’t care enough about me to brag about our relationship!” she yelled, and thunder crashed outside.
    Adin’s eyes cut to the window and back to her. “I don’t give a damn what she thinks! But there is no way that I’ll allow her to find out anything about you. You are none of her business!”
    She took a deep breath. “Ugh!” she screamed as she exhaled. She heard wind whistling outside, but was too furious to even care about that.
    But not Adin. He took hold of her arm.
    “What are you doing?” she spat.
    “Follow me.” He led her to the porch. “Do that again.” His eyes were no longer mad, but curious.
    “Do what?” She said each word slowly and glared at him. He may be intrigued with what was happening with the weather, but she was still mad. While she glared, lightning lit the sky.
    “Take a deep breath and yell.”
    “Why?”
    “I want to see something.”
    “I’m not a science experiment!” she yelled, and the thunder got louder.
    “Just do it, Legacy!”
    She took a deep breath and screamed, “Uggggh!” Not because he asked her to, but because she was getting really pissed with the man.
    As she breathed in irritation, the wind picked up, and Adin smiled. “Did you feel that?”
    “Feel what?” She was still angry with him, but she noticed dark clouds starting to roll in. Crap. She should probably calm down before something— what exactly? —happened.
    “The wind. When you inhaled with fury, the wind blew toward you, and when you exhaled, the wind gusted away from you.”
    She heard the wind, but she hadn’t realized what had actually happened. “Oh.”
    She turned to walk back into the house. Whatever. She was just a little too irritated to analyze this. Adin followed her.
    She glared at him. Yeah, okay, she wanted to know. “Were you yelling at me about Venus because you wanted me to get angry?” she asked with her arms crossed. Pretty crappy thing to do, start a fight.
    “No. I am mad you talked to River about her. Especially since I didn’t talk to her about you.” Adin’s eyes softened. “But when you