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“Sienna.” His voice is a command.
“I’m not talking to you about this, Kael.” I give him a look that hopefully conveys how serious I am. “Tell me what Devon said that got you so angry.”
“Nothing.”
“I can’t help you if you don’t talk to me. What did Devon say that set you off?”
“Nothing,” he repeats, and his eyes grow even darker with contempt.
“Be honest with me.”
“I am being honest with you.”
“Tell me what he did!” I shout.
“He did nothing. I told you that already.”
“Don’t lie to me, Kael. Tell me what happened.”
“Nothing happened, alright?” he suddenly yells, throwing his hands up in the air. “That’s what happened tonight.Nothing.Devon did absolutely nothing to provoke me. I went after him because—” He stops quickly, catching himself, faltering over his words.
“Because,why?”
He looks at me with a pained expression and I can hear his breathing growing heavier. “Because, I—”
“What?”
“Because I knew you’d come.”
It takes a few seconds for his words to find their way into my muddled brain, but when they do my equilibrium turns into a carnival ride, and it’s like grenades exploding on enemy territory, pain tearing through my chest and ribs.
“What did you just say?”
“What the fuck was I supposed to do, Jonesy? I know I screwed up. I know that, alright. But what the hell was I supposed to do?”
“Do aboutwhat?”
Hands fisted tightly at his sides, his fingers stretch wide, and then close again.
“Kael—”
“No, stop!” he roars, the sound reverberating around the room. “This is hard for me, okay? I’ve never felt like this before, and it’s doing my fucking head in. I’m wired all the time, and I don’t know what to do about it. I don’t know how to handle it.”
“Talk to me.”
He scrubs his face with both hands. “Don’t make me say it out loud.”
My heart is pounding double time in my chest. A faint headache is making its presence felt from all the crying, and I really just want this evening to be over and done with, but the look on Kael’s face right now is absolutely devastating.
“Say it,” I whisper.
His voice cuts through me like a sword. “You went out on a date with some guy you don’t even know. Some guy who isn’t me. Some guy who will never be me, and it fucking kills me to see you looking like this. I just wish I didn’t like you so much, and then it wouldn’t hurt so much.”
I feel like crying all over again when he says this, because I like him too.I like him too.He’s awakened a part of me that’s been asleep for too long.
I glance down at my dress, my shoes, and then I look back up at Kael again.
“You look beautiful, Sienna. I think you’re beautiful, and I don’t just mean on the outside. I mean your intelligence, your passion, your brokenness. It’s all beautiful.” He gives me a sad smile, but the smile doesn’t even come close to reaching his eyes. “That dress looks incredible on you, and you didn’t wear it forme, you wore it forhim. And that kills me.” He rubs the heels of his hands hard into his eyes. “I hope he appreciated it.”
