Damien raised an eyebrow, waiting for my rebuttal.
I scrunched my face into a pout. “Fine. You can drive. But you better be careful and mind the speed limits. The last thing I need is for us to get pulled over.”
“It’ll be fine.”
He turned from me and slid into the driver’s seat. I glanced back as Hudson and Shane grabbed their duffels from the ground.
Walking to the passenger side, I pulled my dress up again.After this, I swore I wouldn’t be wearing a dress or heels for a very long time.
I closed my door, shutting us off from the outside world. Words caught in my throat as I watched Damien’s gaze drift over my bare legs before settling on my face.
He cleared his throat. “Ready?”
“Wait. What about the others?”
“They have their own ride.” He threw my Jeep into drive.
“So, it’s just us then?”
“Yup.”
As realization dawned on me, my heart beat a little faster in my chest. We were going to be alone, just the two of us. “I guess this will be a quiet trip then.”
“Why do you say that?”
I let out a noise somewhere between a laugh and a snort. “You go out of your way to ignore me at every possible turn. When I come around, you leave. I don’t expect you to suddenly act like I’m worth your time.”
I expected him to answer right away, to confirm what I suspected. When he didn’t, I took a peek at him from the corner of my eye. His eyebrows were low, and his mouth turned up in a frown. It was unusual for him to show anything other than indifference toward me.
I sighed. Damien was only proving my point.
“It’s not that I don’t think you’re worth my time,” he finally said.
“Is that so? You won’t even talk to me. So, what else should I believe?”
“It’s not because of what you think.”
“And what am I thinking?”
“That I don’t like you.”
“You don’t even know me. How could you possibly know anything about me if you pretend I’m not even there?”
Damien shrugged.
I turned toward him once again and studied his profile. There were many opportunities for me to look at him. I got to watch him run around on stage and felt no shame for staring. But there was something about getting to see him like this, up close. It was intimate. His red hair was no longer held up by the product he’d placed in it earlier, and the night’s shadows kept his eyes from shining the bright blue I knew they were. The lights from the street glinted off the metal studs that decorated his face.
I never noticed the hard line of his jaw before. I also never realized someone’s jaw could be sexy, but here I was, clenching my thighs together as I imagined his between my legs.
Stop…Thoughts like that werenothelpful.
I pushed out a breath. “Fine. If you don’t dislike me, then what is it?”
Damien smirked. “I never said I’d tell you.”
“Seriously?”
“The best-kept secrets are the ones you never tell.”
