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CHAPTER19
Evie
Dropping his shirt in panic, my eyes go wide as I stare at Owen’s silhouette. He flicks on the bathroom light, making me blink rapidly in the sudden glare. My cheeks heat with guilt as he stares at me, and they grow even hotter when his eyes slide down to the laundry basket where his shirt is draped over the side.
“Were you…?” He frowns and steps closer, his head tilting to the side. “Were you justsmellingmy clothes?”
I can’t tell if he’s disgusted or fascinated. I push out my chin, refusing to cower despite the awkward situation. “Maybe. So what? You’ve done worse.”
There’s an unspokento meat the end of the sentence and from the way his jaw clenches, Owen picks up on it.
He takes another step into the bathroom. “I’m confused.”
Not that he looks it. He resembles more a hunter scoping out a rabbit that’s caught its leg in his snare. “You told me I was an asshole, and now you’re in my room sniffing my shirt?”
God, what the hell was I thinking?
This was supposed to be a quick reconnaissance mission, not some creepy stalker shit. In my defense, he’s not even supposed to be here.
“I thought you were at the lake.” I regret my idiotic words the second they spill from my idiot lips.
“So you decided to come snoop around my room?”
I let out a bitter laugh. “You’re one to talk.” I know I should clam up immediately before he realizes Kat ratted him out, but I refuse to let him think he’s on some kind of moral high ground.
I try to salvage the situation by pulling the key out of my pocket. “This? What’s this?”
“A key,” he says dryly. “Do I need to show you how it works, too?”
“This is not what I want.” My voice is getting louder, fiercer. The fact that I can’t control myself when I’m around him should be sending alarm bells through my head, but all I can think about is how fuckingmadI am at him.
“Then whatdoyou want, Evie?”
“Stop saying my name like that.”
“Like what?” To his credit, he looks genuinely unsure about what I’m talking about.
How am I supposed to explain to him that it gives me a tiny thrill deep inside my soul every time I hear my name pass his lips?
Instead of a snarky reply, I just stand there, silently fuming.
“You know what I think, Evie?”
I shiver internally, but I still don’t trust myself not to say something monumentally stupid so I remain silent.
“I think you like me.”
My quick laugh sounds more like a bark. “You wish.”
The edges of Owen’s mouth start to curl up. “In fact, I think you can’t get me out of your head.” He takes another step closer. His hand goes to his belt where he slowly feeds the tongue out of the buckle. “I think you’re so turned on by what happened in the bell tower that you’ve been replaying it in your head on repeat ever since.”
I swallow hard, willing him to get the fuck out of my head. I’ve been able to concentrate on classes and get assignments done during the day, sure, but at night?
It’s not just monsters that come out at night. It’s the memories of what they’ve done to you, too.
“Of course you’d think that,” I manage in a tight voice as he pulls his belt out of the loops in his pants. My legs are frozen in place, my heart thudding desperately the closer he gets. “You think every planet in this fucking galaxy revolves around you, even the sun.”
“The sun’s not a planet.”
