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They all acknowledged me and said hello, so it’s not that I’m being ignored, it’s just that I ended up in a seat in the back that has an empty one next to it.
With all these people, the plane is packed, and I didn’t have any better options.
Not that I mind.
The less people talk to me, the less they can ask me questions.
The flight takes two hours, and as soon as I step off the stairs and onto the tarmac, an arm wraps through mine, and a mischievous voice whispers against my ear.
“When are you planning on telling the truth about what’s happening between you and Damon?”
Glancing up, a pair of sparkling green eyes stare down at me, a smile gracing the guy’s lips that should make any person call bullshit. It takes a liar to know one, and this guy’s smile tells me there’s more going on inside his head that I probably don’t want to know about.
Still, he’s gorgeous, and I’m sure he uses that to his advantage. All of them are. But none of them call to me like Damon, my expression falling at the mention of his name. None of them are as … damaged.
Damn it.
After realizing that hard truth, I need to take a better look at myself and my shitty taste in men.
My fake smile fails me at the mention of Damon’s name.
I’d hoped to wake up to a text before we left the hotel and drove to the plane. There was nothing. Then I let a little hope sneak in again during the flight thinking he might text me before we landed. Nothing.
While walking arm-in-arm with a guy whose name I can’t remember, I shrug my shoulders at the thought that I’m not as important to Damon as I’d started to believe.
Green eyes study me curiously as we approach two limousines. Luca beckons for me to ride in her car, but he waves her on and looks down at me.
“You’ll be riding with the boys back to Tanner’s place. I hope that doesn’t bother you.”
I’m not liking this idea.
From what I’ve already seen of the boys at the meeting they held at the hotel, all nine of them are insanely intelligent, and they play off each other perfectly, like a coordinated orchestra.
“Why can’t I just go with the girls?” I force my usual smile and he smiles again in response.
“Forgive me, love, but I’ve been sent to abduct you for the ride. The boys and I, let’s just say we have … questions.”
Fuck…
I’m led to the limousine while he talks pleasantly about the weather. My nerves are too on edge to pay much attention to what he’s saying or to care. I’m more worried about the questions.
I feel like I’m being led to an interrogation room where they’ll strap me up to a lie detector machine and pull a bright light out of nowhere to shine on me before asking where I’ve been and if I have any alibis.
Tucked into the car next to a guy with blond hair to his shoulders, a true smile and bloodshot eyes with heavy lids, I breathe a little easier, knowing the guy is stoned.
He shouldn’t be too much of a problem. But when Green Eyes takes the seat on my other side, I realize I’m trapped between them with no access to a door should I decide it’s a better option to toss myself out of a moving car than to continue answering their … questions.
Looking forward, my stomach twists in knots to see two faces staring back at me, especially the one directly in front of me with black hair and dark green eyes that are locked on me. He doesn’t smile.
I’m at a disadvantage, so I attempt to ease the awkward tension in the car by figuring out who they are.
“You all will have to forgive me, but I forget your names.”
The one straight across from me finally grins.
“I’m Tanner.” He gestures to the guy sitting next to him. “This is Jase, and the two beside you are Sawyer and Gabriel.”
“Weren’t there more of you?”
