“Good for you. Get in the car.” He looked between the three of us. “All of you. Now.”
Biting my lip, I got into the car with Ava and Mia slipping into the back seat. Onyx drove them to their dorm and exchanged simple pleasantries as they left.
Ava, God bless her, hesitated when I remained in the car. “Quinn?”
“Stays with me.” Onyx turned to look at her. “Don’t worry, I only bite when she begs for it.”
Ava’s eyes widened, and I got out of the car and encouraged her to take a few steps back. “I’m fine. He’s a dick; he hates me.”
“I knew things were tense, but,” she looked back at the car, “I think hereallydoesn’t like you.”
“Meh, it is what it is. He helped this evening, so I have to be nice to him.” I smiled at her to soften the words. “Plus, he’ll want to make sure he can tell Gray he has me.”
“Call me,” Ava said firmly. “Charge your phone and call me.”
“Will do.” I reached over and hugged her. “I’m so sorry my drama caused you both a shit night too.”
“It’s fine, the guy’s a creep, and I’m kinda glad he got fired.” Ava hugged me quickly again, and then she hesitated before she walked past me and bent down to look at Onyx. “You were awesome tonight. Don’t fuck it up by being a dick to Quinn.”
I didn’t hear his response, but I wish I could’ve. With a shake of my head at Ava’s balls, I slipped into the car and looked at him as he glared at me, while Ava waited on the sidewalk.
“You’re like poison. Do you brainwash them?” he asked me casually as he drove away.
“Maybe I’m just a nice person,” I badgered.
“Well, it’s not your jokes, that’s for sure,” he murmured as we drove, and I realized he was taking me to the football house.
“Why?”
“Your apartment is shit for security. I can secure the house and know you’re inside, and the team is away, so even you can’t fuck up in a house alone.”
“You’re so considerate.” Onyx snorted, and I glanced at his cufflink with the Devil insignia. “You’re still a Devil,” I said softly.
“Always.” Onyx grunted as he parked in the drive and got out of the car. I had no choice but to follow him.
“So . . . you expect me to sleep here, in Gray’s room?”
“Or Ash’s? Jett’s?” Onyx tilted his head as he considered me. “Or have you moved on already?”
“I love your brother. You know this, so why are you so cruel?”
Onyx said nothing as he let himself into the house, and I didn’t even ask why he had a key. Why wouldn’t he? He was a Santo and a Devil at that. He walked to the kitchen, and I followed slowly. As he considered the contents of the fridge, I sat on a stool at the breakfast bar.
“So, you love him?” Onyx asked as he pulled a water out and passed one to me.
“Yes.”
“And Ash was what?”
“A relationship that has nothing to do with you.”
Onyx sat on the opposite end of the breakfast bar and stared at me. “You see, that’s where you’re wrong. You know as well as I do, my cousin is very dear to me.”
“Well, he’s your family.”
“He is.” Onyx drank from the bottle and placed it in front of him. “You assumed he didn’t care, because you clearly didn’t care, but he did.”
“This is none of your business,” I said quietly as I stared at the counter. “This conversation, if it needs to be had at all, should be between me and Ash. I could care less what you think.”
