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“The lady I bought this place off of. It was one of the conditions of me buying it. She wasn’t like the rest of the folk around here. She ran supplies to rogue settlements every few weeks. When she sold the place, she made it a condition of me getting this place so cheap,” he tells me.
“And they let you out there? As a human?”
He shrugs. “Mary introduced me to them before she went into the nursing home. It took them a little while to get used to me, but I am the only way for them to get decent supplies under the radar of the councils.”
My brows furrow, and I chew the inside of my lip. It would be nice to get out of here, if only for a little while.
“Don’t look so worried. You’ll be fine. You can wait in the car,” he tells me before pressing his lips to my forehead.
I lean away, finding his growing affection toward me odd. He smiles at me goofily, and I roll my eyes at him.
“Is that a yes?” he asks.
“Fine, but I am waiting in the car. They may know you, but I have never been to one of those settlements. I wasn’t even aware there was one here.”
“Deal,” he says, pecking my lips, and I jerk away.
“Jake!” I scold him.
“Yes, Elena?” he says, and my head becomes fuzzy as he stares at me with those dazzling blue eyes.
A cheeky smile graces his face as he leans closer while I lean back before falling backward onto my elbows.
“Jake,” I growl at him, pushing on his shoulder.
“Don’t pretend you don’t like me, Elena,” he says, leaning closer, his knee pressed between my legs.
“Of course, I like you. You’re my best friend, but you’re being a creep,” I tell him with a nervous laugh.
“What if I don’t want to be your friend?” he asks. “What if I want to be more?”
My eyes widen at his words. Lexa also comes forward, just as confused.
“But you’re gay?”
Jake laughs, pressing closer, forcing me completely onto my back as he presses himself between my legs.
“I am not gay,” he all but purrs at me when I feel his hard erection pressing against the cotton of my shorts.
I gasp, wiggling up the bed. “What?!” I demand, and he shakes his head but allows me up.
“I allowed your father to think I was. There was no way he would let me hang around you had he known I was straight,” Jake tells me.
He has a point. If my father had known, he would have banned me from seeing Jake. The same way he has dictated my relationships and every aspect of my life for as long as I can remember.
I still remember how angry he was when he caught me with Jake and Alisha after sneaking out of the city that night. Alisha had told my father that Jake was gay. I didn’t realize it was a lie, and it didn’t save me from the ass-whooping I got.
“Does Alisha know you’re not gay?”
Jake shrugs. “Well, you all assumed I was. I just went along with it, so I could still be your friend.”
This is absolutely insane to think I have never questioned it. For three years, he’s pretended to be gay? How did we not know?
“Think, Elena. Have you ever seen me with another man? Surely you weren’t that blind to me liking you?”
“I thought you were gay!” I tell him.
“Well, surprise! I’m not,” he says, passing me a jacket. “Put this on. It is a little cold out.”
