“You follow me to my truck, or I carry you to it, Malia.Your choice.Two seconds.”
He couldn’t be serious.
I guessed my two seconds were up, because he stalked towardme.
And he was serious.
I put both hands up.
“Okay, okay.Yeesh.I’ll follow you.”
He scorched me with a look, turned on his boot and prowledway.
I followed him.
When we got outside, he beeped the locks on a blackSilverado and headed to the passenger side door, probably afraid I’d run ifgiven the chance.He held the door while I grabbed onto the hold and heftedmyself up.
He slammed the door on me and rounded the hood.
He angled in beside me.
I turned to him.“Darius—”
“Shut it,” he ordered tersely, his focus on starting thetruck.
Oh no, he didn’t.
“Don’t you dare speak to me that way,” I hissed.
He turned to me.“Have you not heard of all the shit thatwent down with Indy, Jet, Roxie, Jules, Ava, Stella, Sadie and you gotta knowwhat went down with Ally since I got a hospital stay from some of her shit.”
“I read the articles.”
Though, they hadn’t included Ally’s business, or whoeverSadie was.
However, Liam had filled in those blanks, also proud as allheck about his dad being the hero of those scenarios (because he’d also been inon Sadie’s rescue).
I was proud too.I just wasn’t admitting that to myself.
And scared to death, because all of that was dangerous,particularly Ally’s situation, and he could have died, and I couldn’t tamp downthe fear, even though the bad guys got caught and the good guys were okay.
He jutted his chin to indicate the building we just vacated.“So what the fuck are you up to?”
“We were just going to look through a few offices.”
“Breaking and entering is a felony.”
“You’d know all about felonies.”
He clamped his mouth shut, and I wished I could reach outand grab those words and shove them back in my mouth.
“I’m sorry,” I said quietly.“That was uncalled for.”
He turned, started the truck and put it into gear.He thentwisted and put his arm behind my seat to look behind him in order to back out.
His arm that close to me gave me happy shivers.
I tried to ignore the shivers.
