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“That you don’t do cars,” he continued, his voice low, soft. “That you don’t get in them or anything else.”
I closed my eyes.
Heath.
Of course, Heath, and I had seen them talking together. I’d been trying to get out of that alley so fast I hadn’t cared.
My jaw shifted. “Why?”
“Why?”
“Why would that have mattered?” I angled around, and Wolf was close. The large guy craned above me, and I distanced. “Why would that have mattered that I told you?”
And why are you talking about this with him?
I shifted, my shoes squeaking.
Wolf slid his hands into his hoodie pocket, his big shoulders shrugging. “Because I would have made accommodations for you.”
“Accommodations?”
He nodded. “You’re my girlfriend, so yeah, I would have made accommodations.”
I noticed people looking at us again,staringat us. I braced my arms, leaning forward. “So what? You’re going to ridicule me now.”
“No, I’m just wondering why you didn’t say anything.”
Because it wasn’t his business. That’s why. I chewed the inside of my cheek. “So now what?”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, what happens next? You probing me?”
“Probing you?”
“I’m sure you’re curious as to why. Why I don’t do cars or whatever.”
I had no idea why I was pushing this, but I was agitated and felt cornered. He was real good at that shit, cornering me and making me feel uncomfortable, small.
His eyes narrowed. “Yeah, I’m curious. Of course.”
“Of course.”’
He frowned. “But I don’t need to know why. That’s your business.” I blinked, and his shoulders hiked. “I just wanted to know why you didn’t say anything. Could have made things less complicated like with the bus that day.” His tongue eased over his lip. “Could have just not been a thing. A thing between us, I mean.”
Why did he care that it was a thing? I’d gotten myself to his parties. Done everything he’d wanted me to do.
His expression shifted, and the next thing I knew, he was getting close. He hunkered down. “Those parties I had you go to were late as fuck, you know. And what? You took the bus to them?”
He almost sounded angry, his jaw piercing his skin.
My head angled. “You care?”
“Red…” My name fell out of his lips low. He fisted his curls. “Like I said, you’re my girlfriend. You had no business getting on a late-ass bus in the middle of the night. I can’t believe you’d do something like that. Who knows what kind of filth is out. At that hour?”
That wasn’t a thing for me. I’d pulled more than an all-nighter or two since coming to college, and I wasn’t the only one. The twenty-four-hour buses usually had other students on them coming from the library, not bums.
A shot of red crushed Wolf’s chiseled jawline, and he actually looked like he did care.
