I turned my head to Riley and I finally felt his Alpha aura rolling off. He was pissed off. Was it for them, by mentioning Andrea or at me? But I didn’t care. I would deal with him later.
I took his hand and clasped it with mine before I faced Stella and Rebecca again. “Visit us at the packhouse one of these days so we can chat more, but for now, the Alpha and I need to go ahead and call it a day.”
Stella nodded her head at us, the red tints on her face creeping back again. “Yes, Luna, Alpha. Thank you and I’m sorry again.”
I smiled at her and waved goodbye to Rebecca before turning on my heels and tugging Riley’s hand, who was still not saying anything.
When we were away from them, he reached for the paper bag in my arm and I let him take it, but I didn’t stop walking, heading for a shop I saw earlier where I could buy a doll for Rebecca.
“Nadia,” he said, but he didn’t say anything more, so I didn’t answer back and let go of his hand. I went into the shop and bought the doll I wanted, something that resembled my hair.
He just stayed outside, looking at the crowd with a solemn expression on his face, one hand holding the paper and plastic bags of fruit and the other hand in his pocket.
“Let’s go home,” I told him, slipping his wallet into the sling bag that he bought for me earlier when he told me to keep it for now.
“Are you angry?” He asked as we walked back to where he parked his car.
“Hold your thoughts. We can talk in the car.”
He let out a deep sigh and didn’t say anything more.
Once we reached his car, he placed everything in his hand on the back seat and went to his seat. I was already seated beside him and was just waiting for him.
We had already been driving for probably five minutes when he still wasn’t saying anything, and my blood was already starting to boil up.
“Are you not going to say anything?” I opened the conversation, trying to sound calm.
“What do you want me to say?” His voice sounded cold.
Was he upset because he remembered Andrea? That it was me with him and not her?
“I want to talk about Andrea,” I told him point-blank, crossing my arms over my chest as I looked at the road ahead.
“No. There’s nothing to talk about her. She’s just part of the past.”
“That’s the point. She’s part of the past, but did you hear it out there? She’s like a ghost who comes back to haunt me when I had no idea who she was and what she is to you.”
“She means nothing to me now.”
“And then? What was she to you then? Why do I have a feeling you’re hiding something?”
“Let’s cut this conversation short. It’s going nowhere.” He snapped at me, and it made me more pissed off.
“Do you love her, Riley?”
Chapter 20
RILEY.
“Do you love her,Riley?” She asked me without looking at me, and I knew the answer right away.
“I don’t,” I answered coldly, not really liking this conversation at all.
“Liar.” She hissed at me.
“I told you I don’t lie.”
“Then tell me about her.” She tilted her body in my direction, her eyebrow raised as she mocked me with her eyes.
