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The girl’s eyes got big, the one standing next to him. She was looking between him and me, but she didn’t say anything.
“Go and get dressed. Clean up. I’ll wait and then we can have another whole discussion about what happened last night.” He looked at the girl, moving with his back to me. It was a clear dismissal, and something about it made me grit my teeth.
The girl edged back a step, so she could still see me, and those eyes only got bigger.
I frowned. Something about her was familiar. Not that she lived on this same floor as Mac and me, but something else.
But, shaking that off, I went inside and drew in a breath to calm my nerves.
Mac’s laptop was in the room. She wouldn’t mind me using it. I booted it up, used the password for the account she assigned to me in case I ever needed to use it, and I sent Jude a DM.
Do you have my phone? Or my purse?
It read ‘seen’ right away, but he didn’t type back.
I sent the same message to Amber and Toya in their DMs.
Amber was the only one who typed back right away.
Yeah. You left your purse at Troy’s. It’s still there. I don’t know about your phone. Want me to ask Troy to check your purse? See if it’s in there?
When had we gone to Troy’s? He was Luis’ boyfriend, the drummer in Jude’s band. I bit back a curse because I had no idea if I would’ve taken my phone with me. If I’d been wasted enough, and if someone had distracted me, I might’ve left it behind in my purse. Though, I was pretty conditioned to keep my phone with me.
Maybe it was in Cris’ truck? Might’ve fallen out of my jeans?
I replied to Amber, Could you check your backseat? See if my phone is there? Maybe fell out or something.
Amber: Sure will. I’m just leaving to pick Toya up for coffee and breakfast with the guys. Want me to swing over and get you?
Oh! I was tempted, really tempted. Cris hadn’t come barging in here. It’d be easy to slip out through the exit at the end of the hall, but I would still need to check his truck for my phone. Why hadn’t I thought about it on the way here in the first place?
I wrote back, No. I need to check somewhere first and then I’ll get a ride to Troy’s.
Amber: Okay. Check Troy’s bedroom when you get there. Sometimes he takes our things in there so his roommates don’t go through them.
Me: Good call. I’ll talk to you later.
I looked at Jude and Toya’s messages. Both had seen my message. Neither replied.
Awesome.
Cris’ sarcastic words haunted me. “. . .what a couple of great friends you have.”
We weren’t actually friends. We wasted time together while sharing the same pursuit of either being numb or being wasted so we didn’t feel anything else.
But it bugged me that Jude and Toya didn’t respond.
Maybe there was something to what Cris said, and I needed to. . . No. I was aware of the situation. He wasn’t. He could go eat a dick for all I cared.
I had no doubt I’d share that sentiment with him the next time he got in my face, because he was so eager for another showdown. I’d forgotten that Cris liked fighting. It’d been foreplay for us in the beginning until we just skipped fighting and went straight to banging. Even now, I grew heated barely thinking about a few of those times.
I cursed, shutting down Mac’s laptop and going to grab my things for a shower. My body trembled a little bit too, and I couldn’t lie to myself, saying that it was left over from my hangover. It was Cris and remembering how it felt when he’d pound inside of me.
He wasn’t talking to that girl when I went to the bathroom, but he was waiting still outside her door, which was almost directly across from the bathroom door.
He watched me walk toward him, his dark eyes going almost black the closer I got, his eyes trailing up and down over me, warming me with each pass of his eyes.
I got to the door, both of us paused, and the hallway had shrunk in size. It was only him. Only me.
