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I drop my hands and shoot him a look. “Well, we know it’s not where I left it.”
“I was hoping they hadn’t found it. Now that I know they have, I’m not sure I’d even let you get in it. They could have sabotaged the brakes or fucked with it somehow to make it unsafe. Try to get the car to do the dirty work since they didn’t finish the job themselves.”
I shake my head. “I should have called the police. I knew I should have called the police.”
Killian shakes his head. “We’re not getting the police involved.”
“None of this was your call,” I say, frustrated. “I listened to you and now I don’t have a car. I have to at least report it stolen. Maybe I can file an insurance claim or something. I can’t be without a car. I have to drive to work every week, and I need it to drive off campus.”
“You can report it stolen, but if you do, you’ll have to answer questions. They’ll want to know if anyone else had access to your keys, and you don’t even have your keys, so you’ll have to say you lost your purse at a party. Then they’ll ask questions about the party, and how good are you at lying?”
I grimace.
He nods. “That’s what I thought. Give me another day and I’ll find out where your car is.”
“And if it’s at the bottom of the river?”
“Well, then we’ll have to go car shopping, won’t we?”
“I can’t afford to go car shopping.”
“I didn’t say you’d be paying.”
My eyes widen. “You can’t buy me a car.”
“I can do whatever the fuck I want,” he says before cutting the wheel and turning on the road past the Rho Kappa frat house.
On the way back to his apartment, he pulls into a gas station that’s still open. Not to get gas, but to grab a couple of things inside. I go with him since I don’t want to wait in the car alone, plus I figure I should grab myself a few things to drink for the week since I’ll be staying with him.
Inside the gas station, I grab myself an iced coffee for school tomorrow and scan the shelves for something to munch on during study sessions while Killian wanders off to grab something in a different aisle.
I grab a bag of popcorn, but there’s a sale sign that says 2 for $5 or $2.99 each, so I decide to get Fritos, too, and maximize my savings. As I’m reaching for the bag of chips, I hear a familiar voice behind me.
“Brynn?”
I whirl around, eyes slightly wide. This close to the frat house, my mind goes straight to the Rho Kappas and the party last night, but when I turn, I see a guy from my physics class standing there. “Oh, hey, Liam.”
“I thought that was you.” He flashes me a dimpled smile. “You’re out late. Don’t you have class in the morning?”
I crack a smile. “Yep. Don’t you as well?”
“Guilty. But I’m meeting friends for dinner a half hour outside the city after my last class, and if I didn’t get gas tonight, I’d be walking there.”
“Hey, then you could skip the gym,” I joke.
He flashes me a winning smile, his gaze dropping to the bag of SmartPop in my hand. “You like popcorn, huh?”
“I… do,” I say with an uncertain laugh.
“There’s a gourmet popcorn place downtown. Their salted caramel is killer. We should go after the physics seminar on Tuesday. We can sit together and head into the city as soon as it’s over.”
“Oh, that sounds nice,” I say, searching for a polite excuse to decline.
Before I can come up with one, however, Killian rounds the corner. I glance his way, but he’s not looking at me. His jaw is locked, his gaze fixed on Liam before he even had a face to put to the voice. “Sorry, pal. Brynn already has a date to that seminar.”
Surprise flashes across Liam’s harmlessly handsome face. “Oh. Sorry, I didn’t realize. I also don’t recognize you from our physics class.”
Killian drapes an arm over my shoulders, letting his hand and whatever he’s holding in it drift into view as he pulls me closer. “I’m not in it,” he states.
