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Like I didn’t bother her.
But I did, though. I knew I did, and I’d seen that before when she’d come inside.
She chewed her lip in front of my friends. “The whole thing was terribly awkward as you can imagine—”
“Fawn.” Bru shook his head at her. “What...”
He didn’t finish, but he didn’t need to. Fawn wasn’t telling the truth, and that was very apparent when she smiled at him…
Then said she had to go.
My friends and I watched as she thanked my brother for his invitation for dinner, then politely declined. She thanked him for that and only that and made no reference toward staying for the holiday. She made no reference toward me, or our fake relationship. She just thanked Bru for dinner, lying right there in front of Bru, my friends, and me.
I just didn’t know why.
This girl had every opportunity she could possibly have to put everything I’d done out there. I mean, she already had to Bru to some extent.
And she was leaving.
“It was good to see you,” she said to my brother, and even gave him a hug. It didn’t bother me. Not like it had before when he’d touched her. It was friendly. These two were clearly friends. She faced me. “Wolf.”
Wolf…
And that was all she said before aiming for the door. She grabbed the handle of her rolling bag too, but something had me cutting off her escape.
I put my hand on the door, not letting her go, and I didn’t realize why until I was looking down at her, until I was smelling her…
Drowning in her.
Red always smelled like sugar. She always smelled warm and good, and that was just who she was. She was standing there, right there, and protecting me. She was protecting her evil.
Her monster.
Her lips trembled a little, those red lips I’d tasted. I wanted to taste them now. I wanted to taste them so bad.
“Buddy?” Dorian’s blond eyebrows narrowed at me, and it took me a minute to realize Red and I weren’t alone. That it wasn’t just her and me, and we weren’t in the reality of my own creation. I was the reason everyone was here and confused. This was me, all me and a fake relationship I’d started.
My gaze hit Bru then, that reality there. His frown was deep on me, heavy, and I made a choice in that moment. I knew if I just took him aside, I could weather this current storm. I could give him the reason why I’d done what I had to Fawn, and he’d give me his confidence for as long as I needed him to. He would because we were brothers, and Dorian, Thatcher, and Wells wouldn’t have to know about anything that happened last semester. I’d come out unscathed…
And Fawn would look like the fool.
“We were fake,” I stated, looking at her when I said it. “Everything. It was fake.”
I was outside of my body hearing the words, and I didn’t care about anyone’s reactions to them. I just wanted Fawn’s. I wanted her clear from this.
I wanted her out.
Her head shook when I spoke, and her face managed to get even redder. She blinked. “Wolf?”
Confusion lined her raspy voice, awe. She didn’t know why I was doing this, and I liked to say I didn’t know why either.
But that’d be another lie.
I stepped close to her about the same time I heard a shift to my left and gazed up to find my father on the opposite end of the foyer.
He wasn’t alone.
He had my mother with him. Her coat was still on, and my father had his on too. In fact, the only person who’d removed hers was my sister, Sloane, who was also standing there. She stood between them.
