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“Be right back, Lee.”
“Nice to officially meet you, Vera,” Leeson called. I paused turning around to see him wave with his butter knife. “I’ll see you around.”
“You too.”
Jacob seemed to take my silence for what it was after he attempted to start a conversation twice to my clipped answers as he drove. It smelled like a coffee house at the height of spooky season in the condensed space of the car.
As we came up on each turn, I gave him a few seconds warning, but he was a good driver. After a few minutes were parked outside of my residence hall. “Laurel Hall,” Jacob noted. “Good to know.”
I didn’t want to know why. Unclipping my belt, I almost looked for my bag before realizing I didn’t have it. I didn’t have anything but the clothes on my back after I ran off with a boy—and alpha man—last night after I went to a party in nothing but tight jeans, a tighter top, and shoes that still were pinching the backs of my heels. My phone was also on me, fully charged.
Someone must’ve plugged it in last night before I completely zonked out. Now, the screen was flashing with incoming messages from Shelby. I got out of the car and headed towards the front door.
“Hey, Vera!” Jacob called out.
At least three other people who were awake and outside at this hour looked back toward the deep voice.
I quickly stormed back to the car window. “What?”
Jacob smirked. “I know it’s sort of crazy but…”
“But what?” I asked.
His lips parted as he glanced at me again. He shook his head. “It’s nothing. But I’ll see you around, okay?”
Say no.
“Maybe.”
“I can’t wait to learn more about you than your name Vera!”
I clenched my jaw and hoped that I would give him the dirtiest look I could think of.
Somehow it only made him laugh. What a nut job.
He waited until I made it to the door and scanned my keycard to get inside before I glanced back over his shoulder. His car slipped into drive and sped away.
Chapter
Six
VERA
“I’m sorry. I’m so sososorry.” Shelby repented the moment I made my way upstairs. It was like she could hear my footsteps, the door to her dorm swinging open before quietly closing behind her so as not to disturb her roommate still sleeping.
I took another few steps to the end of the hallway before feeling under the edge of my door for the key I left there last night, too nervous that I would’ve lost it at the party (which, I probably would’ve done and then had to pay the absurd two hundred dollar lost key fee). I slid it into the lock and opened the door for both of us to walk in.
Shelby paused after she leaned over my shoulder, pulling away. “You smell odd.”
“Wow. Thanks.”
“No, I don’t mean it like that. I just mean, I can even smell that…” Her brown eyes shot wide. “No. No way.”
“What way, Shelby?”
“Did you do something last night, Ver?”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” I said.
