The glare he sent my way told me he was not amused. "If you're going, I'm going with you."
"Was that a question?"
"Can I go with you to the dinner?" He had to grit the words out.
"I'd prefer a please, but yeah, you can come." I considered adding that he wasn't allowed to be an ass to Jonah, but Jonah could take it. He was kind of an asshole too.
Callum relaxed a little.
He was still more tense than he'd been in the hotel.
I lifted his hand again, setting it back on my thigh before I looked out the window.
Whatever we were was extremely weird at the moment, but oh well.
Callum's phone rang, sending a message across the car's entertainment system screen with Liv's name on it. He glanced my way, as if asking if I minded.
I hit the answer button for him.
"Hey," Liv said, not waiting for his greeting. "You guys are coming to the challenge, right? I don't want to sit by Mer and Dare alone. They're being weird again."
"They're always weird," Callum said.
"How?" I asked.
Liv launched into an explanation. "Merrily can't do physical relationships, so we theorize that she asks Darius to use his magic on her sometimes. I think she spins illusions for him sometimes too, to help with his magic. We don't know the extent. She says they keep each other sane, and that they're just close like me and Callum. We think it's different after sex comes into play, though. I'd rather stab myself in the gut than fuck Callum."
"Well that's rude," I retorted.
"She's still in love with Niall," Callum said, the name rhyming withstyle. "Nothing she says can be taken personally."
I was pretty sure Niall was the name of the guy she'd been dating when I made my bargain with Callum. He was a painter who was famous even outside Rumor, and his relationship with Liv had been all over the news for years. People were obsessed with them.
According to the news, they'd parted ways peacefully.
"Fuck you," Liv said, telling me the news may have been wrong on that.
"You'd rather not," Callum drawled.
"Are you sure Merrily and Darius can't be soulmates?"I checked. Mostly because I was feeling unreasonable rage toward Liv for talking about having sex with Callum.
"They made a bargain over a pack of candy once to test it out. All of us did. That would've been an easy answer," Liv explained.
"Can you turn into soulmates later?"
Liv snorted. "Of course not. And actually, Callum, you never called in my favor after I bargained for those peanut butter cups you were eating."
"I'm saving it for a rainy day."
"It'salwaysa rainy day."
"Then I'm saving it for a sunny day."
"Fine, keep it forever. I'm too used to it to want it gone, anyway."
Liv had endless energy, and I kind of loved it.
"Okay, random question," Liv said. "How likely is it that Jonah gets back together with Gwen?"
