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“He is?” Eris asked suddenly confused.
“I am?” Dillon asked, equally as surprised.
“You are,” I affirmed. “I was going to have you do a trial period with the company to ensure that we worked well together before offering it to you, but I guess that ship has sailed.”
Eris crossed her arms, still suspicious. “A community outreach center.”
I nodded. “Of course. What you don’t know is that Dillon is a recipient of our family scholarship. Not just that, he’s from the type of community I’m hoping to reach out to. His mother is our housekeeper. Dillon is practically a member of the family.”
Eris considered this. “So, he’s like your brother?”
“He’s my brother’s best friend, who our family has cared for since he was 14,” I explained.
Eris smirked. “Oh, he’s your family’s charity case. Well, I get that.”
“I wouldn’t phrase it like that, but you get the point.”
“Of course,” Eris said, her tone lightening. “For a minute there, I thought he was going to be a problem with, you know, us.”
“Are you kidding? You thought I was into guys?” I asked regretting it as soon as I said it.
Eris relaxed and chuckled. “Yeah, I guess that would have been silly. Men like you aren’t into guys,” she said slithering to me putting her hands on my chest and her lips close to mine.
I gathered her wrists and eased her away. “But just because I’m not into him doesn’t mean I’ll ever be into you. Eris, there is no us. I think we should make that clear now. I have agreed to marry you and someday, if necessary, we might have kids. But that’s it. There will never be anything more.”
Eris looked unconvinced. “It sounds to me like you are issuing a challenge.”
“That’s not how I would interpret it,” I said, narrowing my eyes at her.
“Potayto, potahto,” she shrugged casually.
I chuckled despite myself. “Do I need to make myself clearer?”
Eris raised an eyebrow. “Do I? Because in the end, you will be in love with me.”
“Eris…”
“Husband,” she said cutting me off, her voice dripping with sarcasm. We both smiled knowingly at each other.
“And here I was afraid our marriage would be boring,” she said. “Enjoy the gift. And you,” she added, pointing at a stunned Dillon, “remember that there’s room on that plate.”
“Eris!” I exclaimed, feeling my wolf ready to strike.
“I’m kidding,” she said, rolling her eyes. “It was nice meeting you, Dillon. Make our family proud.”
Before I could say anything else, Eris spun on her heel, her blonde hair swishing as she made her way out. With the door closed behind her, a fist gripped my heart as I considered what Dillon would say.
Chapter 7
Dillon
My heart raced as I tried to process what had just happened. The humiliation I felt from Remy’s words and Eris’ presence had ripped my chest open. It ate away at my confidence in a way that nothing else could.
Not only had he made me second-guess my place in their glamorous world, but he had laughed off the idea that he could be attracted to me. I had been such a fool to think that someone like Remy could be interested in someone like me. I was just his family’s charity case who was now “uniquely qualified” to give Remy what he wanted.
“Is that all I am to you, then?” I said turning to him, my voice breaking. “A charity case? Someone to fill a gap in your perfect little world by being poor and mixed race?”
Remy looked taken aback by my outburst. “Dillon, that’s not what I meant—”
