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“Ma’am.”
“I was so grateful to you.” She went on as though he wasn’t even trying to answer and then stared at his partner before turning back. “I thought you were heroes. Why would you do this? My brother is the last person on this entire campus that deserves to be in handcuffs.”
“Your brother was in possession of narcotics, ma’am. A whole lot of them.”
“Bullshit.”
I glanced at Max who stood tall beside Wes, his arms crossed over his wide chest and a scowl on his face.
Kruger exploded. “What the fuck, Arsen? What the hell did you get my brother into? This is your fault, isn’t it? I never should have suggested he hook up with you?—”
I sucked in a breath, and everything around me faded. I didn’t know if anyone kept talking because all I heard was fist-clenching, high-pitched ringing that made me feel like my ears would bleed.
I started tapping the cuffs again, the ringing growing louder with every second. I shook my head, trying to rid myself of the sound, knowing it wasn’t going anywhere but trying to soothe myself anyway.
My ears continued to buzz, and I blinked, my eyes burning as I tried to focus on what was going on around me, but I was blind and deaf to everything but the impenetrable ringing.
Roaring filled my ears, muffling some of the terrible ringing, and I jolted with the brush of something warm and soft against my cheek.
Refocusing, my vision filled with coal-colored eyes framed with jet-black lashes and a straight, strong nose between them.
Blinking rapidly, I leaned away a little, overwhelmed and confused. He followed, though, pushing so close that my eyes nearly crossed, and his lips brushed against my cheek once more.
Dumbstruck, I stared as he pulled back just enough to look into what I was sure were ludicrously wide eyes.
His eyebrows were thick, sort of wild over his eyes, and just as inky black as the untidy hair on his head. I want to brush it for him.
“Princess.”
The word snapped against me like a rubber band, the force of it getting past the ever-present din in my ears.
“D-did you just kiss me?” I asked, completely dazed.
The side of his mouth curved up, the lip rings going with. Amusement shone in his eyes as mine devoured every inch of him I could take in. Shoulders rising toward his ear, he said, “My hands are out of commission.”
Tongue-tied, I could only continue to stare, my cheeks growing hot. I hoped the dark interior of the car covered the blush. Surprised, I tore my eyes from Arsen to glance around the back seat we were both sitting in.
There was some sort of cage between the back and front seats. At my back, I flexed my hands, my fingers rubbing against the shitty pleather material of the seat. I recoiled from it instantly, bending forward so my arms didn’t touch it.
“They’re not going to be able to hold us,” Arsen said, watching me. “We’ll be out in an hour. Two tops.”
“Were those your drugs?” I blurted. The sound of my own voice seemed muffled by the ringing.
He didn’t seem offended I’d asked. Smirking, he leaned forward so our faces were close. “I prefer to get my high in other ways.”
I squirmed in the seat, my mind supplying an image of what exactly Arsen might do to get “high.”
I glanced out the back window, seeing my group of friends still there, Kruger jabbing his finger in the direction of the cruiser. I didn’t even remember getting into this car. The two officers who arrested us were joined by a couple other cops, probably the ones who seized the drugs.
Arsen reclined against the seat, his thighs spreading, legs so long his knees hit the back of the front seat. He sighed, and I was instantly sidetracked by the long column of his throat and thick Adam’s apple in the center when he dropped his head back.
Up close, I saw the snags and tears in his T-shirt, exposing small glimpses of skin beneath it.
He was so much my type that my stomach tightened with it. My eyes and body felt starved as I continued to stare, completely enraptured by his proximity. The sharp ringing in my ears took second even to him.
Never had I ever been as unbothered as Arsen appeared. Hell, I was so overloaded my brain erupted in wails and then dropped offline for a few. The only reason I’d even come back so soon was because he kissed me.
He. Kissed. Me.
