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“Thank you.” I smile, trying to ignore the way my heart whooshes in my chest.
Abel shuts my door and crosses around the car, hopping into the driver’s side moments later.
“I’m hungry,” Henna announces loudly from the backseat. “Can we get pizza on the way home?”
“Pretty sure all the pizza places are closed,” Abel tells her, starting the car.
“Boo! How about burgers?”
“I don’t know of any burger places open twenty-four hours between here and your house,” he tells her, slowly backing out of his parking spot before pulling out into the road.
“Let’s go to Jack’s!” Aaron announces it like he’s just had anah hamoment.
“I am not taking your ass to Jack’s in your current condition.”
“Why not? Claudia and Jack won’t be there.”
“You hope they won’t,” Abel argues.
“What’s Jack’s?” I chime in, curious as to what they’re talking about.
“It’s a little diner across town. Our aunt and uncle own the joint. Best burgers in the world,” Aaron answers.
“Best burgers in the world, huh?” I stare at the side of Abel’s face which causes him to glance in my direction.
“Oh no. Not you too.” He shakes his head before his eyes slide back to the road.
“Oh come on. We’re hungry.” Aaron starts kneeing the back of Abel’s seat.
“Fucking hell,” Abel grumbles. “Fine! I’ll take you to Jack’s, but so help me, Aaron, you make an ass of yourself, you’re the one that’s going to have to apologize to Jack and Claudia the next time you see them.”
“I’m not going to make an ass of myself.” Aaron laughs.
“Yay burgers!” Henna celebrates.
“Any chance we can just take them home and they won’t notice?” I ask Abel under my breath.
“Um, I heard that.” Henna knees the back ofmyseat.
“What is with you two kneeing seats?” I turn and glare at her. “If you don’t stop, we’re going to kick you both out of the car and you can find your own way home,” I warn, playfully serious.
“I know why she wants to kick us out of the car,” Henna whisper yells to Aaron.
“So she can get all up on my brother’s nuts,” Aaron finishes her thought.
Heat floods my cheeks and I know I must be a hundred shades of red at this point, but I do my best to laugh it off in hopes of hiding my embarrassment.
“You two are children,” I tell them, avoiding looking at Abel as I turn back toward the front. “Sorry about them,” I murmur.
“Don’t be. Nothing I haven’t dealt with many times before. My brothers try to pretend they’re all holier than thou but get a little alcohol in them and they are just as fucked up as the rest of us.”
“At least you have siblings. Try being an only child with parents who are so overprotective you could barely breathe most of your life.”
“I take it you didn’t get to do much as a child?” he asks, keeping his gaze locked on the road.
I’m thankful that despite Henna and Aaron’s outrageous attempts to mortify me further than I have already done myself, Abel moves along like nothing was said.
“You could say that. My mom was the more lenient one. But my dad, that man needed to take a serious chill pill. He got even worse after my mom passed.”
