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“Yes, you should have,” I snapped, jerking my gaze to meet his. “I was right. If you’d listened to me instead of causing a fight and letting your girlfriend talk down at me, then…”
“Then this might not have happened to you,” he finished for me. “Believe me, I know.”
I sighed, looking away from him. “No, I’m sorry. That’s not a fair thing to blame you for. You aren’t the one who stuffed me in the boot of a car to kill me.”
“If I’d listened to you and at least made you feel like you were helping, then you probably wouldn’t have felt the need to go rushing off over there.”
“To be fair, I probably would have. I don’t have the best impulse control,” I replied, shrugging a shoulder. “That’s why I’m going to be sharing this building with probably two hundred rats instead of living with my parents.”
He barely cracked a smile. “I just wanted to tell you that I’m sorry.”
I sighed. I knew he was. It was written all over his face, and honestly, none of it was his fault. He didn’t make me go over there, nor did he hurt me like Shane had.
I pouted. “I thought you were going to tell me not to get involved with your investigations in the future.”
“That, too, but the apology seemed more fitting right now. I was saving the warning for later.”
“Right, well, apology accepted, talk done, you can leave now.” I nudged the door against his foot to make my point. “Thanks for stopping by, but I have things to do, and you have a girlfriend to see, and I doubt she’d be happy to find out that you’re here, so—”
“I don’t.”
“What?”
“I broke up with Kayla.”
I pressed my lips together. Did Gwen know that when she visited me in hospital? Is that what her whole spiel was about?
Damn it. I knew she was concocting a scheme when she’d given me his number.
“I’m sorry to hear that.”
His mouth tugged to one side. “No, you’re not.”
With a sigh, I released the door and walked inside. “No, you’re right. I’m not. She’s not exactly ever given me a reason to feel otherwise, so whatever.”
Noah closed the door behind him. “She was threatened by you.”
“No shit,” I deadpanned. “That sounds like a her problem, not a me problem, like I said before. Your grandmother reminded me of that, too. I am not responsible for how she feels about me. I haven’t done anything to her, so I’m sorry if she was bothered by my presence, but I never did a single thing for her to feel that way.” I looked at him pointedly. “I’d offer you something to drink, but I don’t have, well… anything.” I motioned around the empty annexe. “Unless you’d like some tap water that may or may not be safe to consume.”
“I’ll pass.” His dark green eyes twinkled. “She was right to feel threatened by you.”
My heart skipped a beat.
I folded my arms across my chest and held my shoulders back, making my chin go a little higher. “Again, that’s still not a me problem. Now, if you’d like to make your way out, I have things to do.”
Noah cast his gaze around the annexe. “Do you?”
Good question.
“No,” I admitted. “I just don’t want to have this conversation with you right now. I know it has to happen, but I get headaches easily still, and this feels a lot like a conversation that’s going to give me a headache.”
“I’m sorry for… everything.” He met my gaze. “I never thought I’d ever see you again, and I accepted that, then here you were. When I came here, and you were the one who’d called in that body…” He blew out a breath. “I had a lot of feelings, and overall, I didn’t deal with them well.”
“Not really, no.”
“And that’s a me problem,” he added with a small smile.
