I shake my head. “No, it's okay. Catch you guys later.”
The rest of them leave. Val glares at me in the silence.
“Val—”
“What thefuck, Evie!” he blurts. “VAUGHN?! Are you fucking high?!”
Crap.
“He told you?” I croak.
Val sneers. “Nope. But you just proved her right.”
My brow furrows. “Proved who right?”
“Sabine.”
I exhale. “Val?—”
“Jesus, Evie,” he groans, shoving his tattooed fingers through his hair.
“First of all, I was going to tell you—” I begin.
“Bullshit.”
“Eventually,” I mumble. Then I frown. “And Sabine just told you to screw with me. She hates me.”
“She doesn’t love me, either,” Val growls. He exhales heavily as he looks at me. “But forget Sabine. Eves, are youkiddingme? You’re fuckingmy brother?!”
“Hey,you’rescrewingmybrother!!” I hurl back.
“So this is, what, payback?”
“No!” I spit.
“Then why the fuck are you with him!” he hisses.
“Because I like him!!”
Whoa.
Too late to putthatlittle dollop back in the toothpaste tube.
Val scoffs. “Not a chance.No onelikes Vaughn.”
“He’s got those friends…?” I offer.
“No one who isn’t equally unhinged, I mean,” Val mutters.
I snort. “Sabineseems to like him,” I say venomously.
“Yeah,” Val snaps. “Because she’s just as fucking nuts as Vaughn and his band of lunatics!” He groans, shoving his fingers through his hair as he paces in a circle. “Fuck, Evie! You seriously lost your virginity tomy brother?!”
I bite my lip, looking down as I pick my cuticles. “Does… Does Roman know?”
Val is quiet. When I look up, he’s still glaring at me.
“No,” he growls. “Notyet.”
