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The room silenced but it wasn’t as if Dorian hadn’t spoken. Everyone was definitely aware, and no one more than Ares.
Ares’s gaze flickered around, as if a sheep in the lion’s den.
But he was the only predator here.
I reflected back to what I’d seen in his dad’s office, and it was hard to deny the connection to previous events. He’d been so helpful, so unusually helpful. I thought he’d hated me and was simply jealous of me before that like he’d said, but him hating himself made more sense. Maybe he had been infatuated with me, and that put him between a rock and a hard place.
I mean, Dorian was his friend.
Dorian let go of me, guiding me back. “I’m talking to you, Ares.”
He was, but Ares wasn’t looking at him. The boy’s gaze stopped on me. He swallowed. “Sloane—”
I grabbed Bru. “We’re leaving.”
I didn’t wait for him to fight me on the decision or anyone else trying to come at me about it. I simply left, and since I had the keys, I got right in the car.
“Sloane, hold up. What happened?” Bru trailed on my heels but he wasn’t the only party. Ares was once again following me, and how he’d managed to get out of the house before Dorian, I didn’t know, but he had.
Once outside, he physically bounded over the Audi’s hood. I’d seen him manage a feat before. He only had to use a hand since he was so tall, and though my cardio sucked, I managed to get outside and into the car before he could stop me.
I locked the door, and he started to tug, but Dorian’s voice once again boomed the air.
Dorian was making his way out of the house. Instinctually, Ares blinked that way, and it was enough time for me to start the car.
And Bru to get inside.
My brother must have seen I was serious, because after I started the car, he basically leaped inside. He snapped the door shut, yelling at me to talk to him, but he wasn’t the only one.
Ares’s fist pounded against the door, and Dorian was running. It took me a second to realize the dark prince was trying to get in front of my car, but even with all his speed, the quarterback couldn’t outrun my brother’s Audi.
Dorian had been only quick enough to get hands on the hood before I sped around him.
He called after me, getting smaller and smaller in the rearview mirror, but I couldn’t hear or see anything else besides my own thoughts in the moment. I just kept seeing pictures, images and sketches of me that’d been done without my permission.
And how I’d somehow mistaken his friend’s attention for simple kindness.
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Dorian
I drove around for over two hours looking for Sloane.
She never went back home.
I knew because I waited outside her house after I went after her. I’d been quick, but by the time I’d gotten into my car, she’d already peeled off into Wolf’s neighborhood.
And I hadn’t been the only one to go after her.
Wolf had taken Wells’s car. Probably because we’d all been parked outside of his house. I saw him handling our buddy for his keys through my rearview mirror, and he got them because he wasn’t that far behind me. We’d both gone after Sloane, my mind straight trippin’ about that.
None of this made any fucking sense.
I didn’t know the story. Why she’d left, but Wolf clearly had done something. I lost him during the search and never did find Sloane. Like stated, she never came home, and during my search, I’d been trying to call my buddy to pick up the goddamn phone.
I blew his phone the fuck up but with no answer, and when I tracked it, I realized why. The tracking app I had showed his phone was still at his house, which meant he’d left it.
How had the night turned into this?
