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When the door slammed behind her, I looked at Hugo, and he looked like he was about to have a stroke.
“What the fuck did you tell her, Catherinelle?” he barked at me, and I felt the need to back away from him.
“Don’t get mad. I just…I can’t keep things away from her.” I could have kept Bianca in the dark, but I needed to vent. It wasn’t my fault he drove me crazy.
“Have you lost your fucking mind?”
“B is not going to tell anybody. Why are you so mad?”
He turned from me with a move so sudden, he made the whole fucking car shake and punched the steering wheel.
“I’m mad because you think this is a fucking game, and it might be for you, princess, but I don’t think you understand what would happen if a whisper got out about this shit.”
I sat there, stunned by his reaction.
“Hugo…”
“Just go to school.”
“Do you think I want to piss Gino off like this? No one will find out, not from Bianca.”
“Piss him off? You think I don’t wanna hurt his feelings? Let me put it plain and simple for you, Catherinelle, if your brother ever finds out that I took you to bed, he’ll fucking kill me.” He stopped to take a deep breath. “And I would deserve it.”
“You’re overreacting.”
From his seat, Hugo looked at me with his eyes so empty, it gave me chills.
“Then you are more naïve than I thought. Go.”
“Damn it, Hugo, listen…”
“Listen? I can’t even look at you right now.”
He stretched in my direction, and for a second, I thought he wanted to pull me into a kiss, but he only opened my door and virtually pushed me out of the car. All the bridges that solidified in the past couple of days when I fell asleep with my cheek on his chest, listening to his heart beat, I could see them crash and burn under my eyes. The ogre was back.
Before I stepped too far away from the car, the window went down, and Hugo called my name.
“Yes!” There was a ray of hope in my voice.
“I’ll be here to pick you up at two.”
“We have a charity thing today; I won’t be off before three thirty.”
His face turned to a blank page.
“Then I’ll send Vito pick you up and drive you home.” And with that, he was gone.
He couldn’t be here at three thirty because today was Wednesday, and he always disappeared for a few hours in the middle of the week.
While I was watching him drive away, Bianca popped up from wherever she was hiding.
“Oh, my God, did I make him mad? I shouldn’t have said anything, Cat. I’m sorry.”
“Yeah, you should have kept it shut, but it’s over with.”
She came to my side and hugged me.
“I really am sorry.”
