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The car ride is quiet for the first few minutes, and I shift in my seat, adjusting the ice pack on my leg.
My whole body aches, my head is still pounding, and I’m exhausted. It’s fair to say that I’ve had better days.
“Give me your phone.”
My head jerks toward him. Not a question. A command. I’m suddenly up and alert again. Alert enough to side-eye him at least.
I don’t move. Just blink at him.
Kai stretches out his hand, palm up, patient but expectant. “Your phone.”
“For what?”
“Lilia sent you her address,” he says smoothly. “And unless you’d prefer we circle this city all night, I need it.”
With a sigh, I shove my phone into his hand and watch as he… types in my password?
I sit up. “Um, Kai?”
Kai doesn’t react. Just tilts the screen slightly away, scrolling through my messages like he has every right in the world to be there.
“How do you know my password?” I demand this time.
He looks at me for half a second—expression blank, revealing absolutely nothing—before his attention flicks back to the phone.
Oh, hell no.
“Hello?” I wave a hand in front of his face. Still nothing.
Instead, he leans forward and angles the phone toward the driver. “Postcode.”
After a few seconds, the driver nods, inputting the address without a word. And Kai leans back in his seat, completely unbothered by the fact that he just casually violated every sense of privacy I have.
I gape at him. “You can’t just do that.”
He hums, the sound low, faintly amused, already tucking my phone—myphone—into the side compartment between us.
I open my mouth to demand more answers—because how the hell does he know my password?—but before I can, he’s already reaching into his pocket.
A moment later, he pulls out a small orange pill bottle.
My pill bottle.
And a water bottle from the car’s side pocket.
Kai doesn’t say anything. Just holds them out toward me. Expecting.
I squint at him. “Are you gonna start handfeeding me next?”
“Do you need me to?”
My stomach flips.
His expression doesn’t change. “Take them.”
I tut, grab the meds and twist off the cap. “You know, you have very controlling tendencies.”
