“Okay.”
I nodded, my pulse picking up its pace. “Back stairs?”
“Lead the way.”
Chapter 32
Savannah
We walked up the stairs in silence, and he stood patiently, leaning against the wall as I unlocked the door to my apartment.
I knew Bev was still at the party. I’d texted her when I agreed to go for coffee with Noah, and she’d replied on the way here to tell me she was with friends and still there. I think my roommate was hopingnotto come back tonight. Still, I didn’t want her to walk in and see the Lions QB in the living area, not with the way she reacted to Noah.
“My room?”
He nodded and crossed the apartment like he’d been here a hundred times before. I followed him, unsure if the intimacy of my bedroom was the best idea, but it was the only alternative.
Dante took the chair at my desk, leaned back, and stretched his legs out.
“Are you going to speak?” I asked, taking off my leather jacket and hanging it up.
“You and Noah were going forjustcoffee?”
I blinked. That hadn’t even been me trying, and he was already jealous.
“Yeah, he invited you too,” I told him, sitting on the edge of my bed. “Remember?”
“Did I ruin your plans?” His look was cold, but I could see the fire behind the cool stare.
“No.” I pulled off my boots and took them over to the closet. He tracked my every movement until I was back on the bed. “It was nice that you wanted to come, you know, after...”
“So you don’t want to fuck Noah?”
Fury rushed up inside me, but I knew that’s what he wanted, and I had to force myself not to react and play this out. “Well, I’mnot really a promiscuous person, and considering it’s only been a few days since I had sex with you—”
“Too soon?” Dante grimaced in consideration. “How long before you decide you want to?” His hands flexed into fists at his side.
“Want to? Want to what?” When he said nothing, I let out a small huff of disbelief as I realized what he was asking. “I am not sleeping with, nor do I intend to sleep withorhave sex with, Noah.”
“He thinks you’re hot.” Dante wasn’t blinking as he watched me. “You thinkhe’shot, so... there’s obviouslysomethingthere.”
Noah thought I was hot?
“I think Jacob Elordi is super sexy,” I told him, anger leaking through. “I’m not going to sleep with him either.”
Dante sniffed. “Why? Jacob Elordi? I think I would.”
I grinned and saw the ghost of a smile on his face. “I’m not interested in sleeping with Noah,” I told him seriously. “And yourfriendisn’t interested in sleeping with me either. Okay?”
Dante shrugged, his attention moving to my desk. “Who asked you to go to the party?”
“My roommate,” I told him honestly. “She’s released her inner slut.” I saw the sharp look he gave me. “Oh, that’s a direct quote from her,” I told him. “I’m not being a bitch, that’s what she said.”
“Did you leave her alone?” he asked me with surprise.
“No, she found friends. Noah turned up just about the same time as she saw them, and she joined them, and then you joined Noah and me.”
“Me and Noah,” he corrected softly. “But that doesn’t explain how you got in.” He saw my guilty look. “The doors were open?” he guessed.
