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I shrieked, standing. My stunned stare landing right on the man responsible.
“Are you out of your mind?”
Adrian didn’t look my way, roaring, “You don’t talk to her like that ever!”
Tom lifted his arms in a surrendering gesture. “I’m sorry, man! I didn’t know she had a boyfrie—”
“He’s not my boyfriend!” I exclaimed, pissed Adrian was behaving this way.
He cocked his head to the side, staring at me with an expression I couldn’t place.
“I didn’t mean anything by it,” Tom voiced.
He glared back at him. “Learn some fucking respect.” Adrian kicked him.
“Oh my God! Stop!”
He did, but only to grab my stuff and drag me out of the tutoring room. Unable to manage his own strength, he began pulling me harder than he probably intended.
I silently thanked God the library was empty.
Adrian hurried us down the concrete stairs toward the exit of the building. I pitifully tried to keep up with his wide stride as he hastily rushed us through the parking lot to his car.
The clicking sound of my wedge sandals were beating hard against the pavement. One-by-one, it added to all the chaos erupting in my head.
“You’re going too fast,” I pleaded. “I’m going to break my ankle. Slow down!”
He stopped dead in his tracks, turned around and without even looking at me, leaned forward to throw me over his shoulder. I beat on his back to put me down, but he didn’t listen.
Once we arrived at his car, he opened the passenger side door and tossed my body in there like it weighed nothing. I couldn’t believe the nerve of this man. Just when I thought his overprotectiveness was over, he goes and proves me wrong.
The entire drive to his apartment, I stared out the windshield with my arms crossed over my chest. Fuming from the inside out. I couldn’t believe he was acting this way.
It was complete and utter bullshit, and I wasn’t going to stand for it.
After he parked his car, I announced, “I’m not going in there with you.”
“Want to bet?”
I scoffed out in disgust. “What about Cade?”
“Cade is the least of your worries right now.”
“Adrian—”
“Paige, get out of the car.”
I snapped to face him. “Or what?”
He grinned.
This asshole had the balls to grin at me.
What the hell?
“Either you walk into my apartment on your own or I’ll carry you in there kicking and screaming if I have to. Do you understand me?”
My chest was rising and falling.
