A blush creeps onto my face. Just that one simple act of approval has me weak.
She grabs the door handle, but pauses to glance at me over her shoulder, while I sit here in the chair, defeated. After all this time, I still can’t seem to pierce through the veil.
A brief but meaningful smile on her face makes me look up.
“Thank you.”
That.
That’s all I’ll ever need.
The door closes behind her.
By the time my body has registered what she just said, she’s already long gone.
But I’ll remember.
I always remember every single word she ever spoke to me.
And this … this I’ll take with me to the grave.
Because it’s the closest I can get to the sun, to her acceptance … her love.
Orion
With my notebook in hand,I stroll across campus, trying not to be bothered by the metal still making my dick twitch. It’s a hard life trying to imagine my only muse without getting a hard-on, but an artist must always struggle toward greatness.
My pen flicks back and forth as I dabble down some words, but when I look up again to take in my surroundings, my brows draw together.
A certain officer who found the body in the woods left by none other than Sunny and Xavier just waltzed right up to her sorority.
Detective Foley.
Fuck.
CHAPTER 27
Orion
I putaway my notebook and hasten toward the building while I pull out my phone instead.
Me: You have Sunny’s phone nr right? Tell her that cop is at her condo.
Xavier: Shit.
I lowermy phone and approach the building, but another quick buzz has me looking at it again.
Sunny: I know.
Double crap.
I have to put a stop to this before he finds something he’s not supposed to find.
I tuck my phone away again and clear my throat just as the officer is about to enter uninvited.
“Hi there,” I say with the most chipper voice I can muster. “What’s going on?”
The man turns around and glares at me with the most disdain I’ve ever seen. “What do you want?”
