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“What are you— oh.” Millie joins me, making a gagging noise. “They are so gross.”
“Yeah.”
“I don’t know what my brother sees in her. She’s so… vapid and fake. He needs a girl with a little more bite.” Glancing at her sideways, I arch a brow and she grins back at me. “Know anyone who fits the description?”
“Ha ha.” I laugh but it sounds brittle. “Never going to happen.”
“It could. You’d be good for him. And unlike Keeley, I like you.”
“I appreciate the shining endorsement. But your brother isn’t my type.”
“Who is your type then?”
“Aren’t you a little young for this kind of talk?”
Millie shrugs, a shadow falling over her expression.
“What did you do with your weekend?” I ask, sensing her pulling away.
“Nothing worth mentioning.” She barely meets my gaze.
“Millie?”
“You should ask Theo about it,” she murmurs.
“Theo, why would I—”
It hits me.
Theo isn’t angry at me—well, maybe I am a contributing factor—he’s angry about something else and I got the brunt of his bad mood.
“He tries to hold it all together,” Millie goes on. “But it’s hard and I know he worries about leaving me to go off to uni.”
“And what about you, do you worry about that?”
She meets my curious gaze and offers me a small smile. “It is what it is. At least I can board here until it’s my turn.”
I didn’t want to get close to these people, to feel sympathy for them. But I can’t help it.
Millie reminds me so much of myself.
And Theo…
I refuse to think about him.
Especially, while he’s letting Keeley Davis paw all over him.
Maybe he’s doing it to make me jealous or maybe he’s doing it to prove he is the arrogant tosser I suspect him to be. Whatever his reasons, I don’t want to play his game this morning. So I loop my arm through Millie’s and drag her in the opposite direction.
“Come on,” I say. “I’ll walk you to your building.”
* * *
All morning, I stew on my run-in with Theo, and Millie’s words.
I should stay out of their business. It’s nothing to do with me. I should avoid getting any more tangled up with them than I already am.
I tagged his car and ruined their party for God’s sake. But what started as a quest to get one up on the Heir and his friends, and knock them down a peg or two, has become something else entirely.
