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She shuddered, and Wolf, who’d also just blinked, raised his hand at her.
“Whatever,” he passed off, his cereal now his fascination. He took two big heaping bites. “This is what I get for letting you in my place and trying to help your ass.”
Her eyes lifted, and though his did too, he offered to help with her art piece.
“No, I got it. You do you.” She eyed him, laughing, and when her brother flipped her off, spoon in hand, she just chuckled again. “See you later.”
“Yeah, see you.” Wolf was certainly moody, and I’d say something if I wasn’t trying to stop seeing the image of himlicking a spoon.What had just happened was definitely too real for me.
Busying myself, I sat on the couch, and after Wolf saw his sister out, he joined me.
“Good job.” He said this around more bites, a sheen on his full lips every time he removed milk.
I glanced away. “Well, that went well.” Talking, yes. Talking was good. Great. “She doesn’t seem to hate me now.”
That was because of him and his save, which I hadn’t missed.
Wolf was still chomping on cereal bites at this point, rigid. He merely nodded after the words, and I wondered if what had just happened affected him in the same way it had me.
Probably not. You’re just an idiot.
I swear to God I wasn’t one who self-deprecated, but I’d been doing nothing but that since he entered my life. He rattled my confidence, and that alone had me shifting to the other side of the couch.
“Yeah, you did well,” he reaffirmed, and I’d give him a hard time about that cereal shit if I still wasn’tthinking about it. His bowl hit the table with a clank, empty. Dude even drank the milk before running the back of his hand over his mouth. His arms draped behind the couch. “She was the hard sell, so yeah, good.”
His fingers clenched and unclenched, and since his arm was behind the couch, I noticed. He had a ring below one of his knuckles, and I recognized it. “Your sister wears one of those. On her neck?”
I hadn’t noticed she’d been wearing it today, but she had worn a bulky sweatshirt.
Wolf lifted his hand, his ring slightly different. It was still one of those gorillas, but the eyes weren’t red like Sloane’s. He had white diamonds in his.
“Uh, yeah. It’s a home thing,” he said, before returning his arm back. He brushed my neck this time, and I eased forward. His gaze flicked my way. “It’s for a society we’re in, a club in our small town. It’s called the Court, and the guys and I are all in it. Sloane too. It’s mostly high school shit, though, so we don’t wear our rings. The one around Sloane’s neck is Dorian’s. He gave it to her since they’re dating and all that.” He released a breath. “I’m only wearing mine because I was cleaning.”
I studied him, his chest rising and falling. He’d also said that really quick, which had a smile tugging at my lips. I didn’t know why. I brought my legs up. “So, when am I going to see your art?”
“What?”
God, his chest was big, massive. My fingers itched to touch it, but I resisted. I leaned on my arm. “You said you do art. I’m assuming like your sister.” I shrugged. “When can I see it?”
Oh my God… was I flirting? That couldn’t be possible. No way.
But my face was hot.
Still, it was hot from that cereal thing. I glanced off, and Wolf huffed.
“You won’t.”
“Why?”
“Because it’s private.” His body shifted in my direction. “So, you get whatever thoughts out of your pretty little red head about that.”
My gaze flicked up, shot up. Did he just call me…pretty?
Fuck, is he flirting too?
He couldn’t be, and I was crazy. My feet touched the floor. I started to get up when I noticed his necklace. That emblem sat on his chest, and when I asked him about it, he touched it.
“My sister and I wear them, a gift from our parents.” He let it go. “She lost hers for a while, but we found it when she came back.”
