“Because, man, she’s hot,” he grunts with a smirk.
Oh, hell no. That’s never going to happen.
I try my best not to growl at him, but it doesn’t stop me from giving him a death glare.
“I told you to leave her the fuck alone. She’s my toy to play with. You deciding to ignore me now?” I give him a look, daring him to challenge me.
I could use a good fucking fight to blow off some of this excess emotional energy I seem to have caught like a bad fucking flu.
“No. Sorry, dude. I won’t mention her again.” He holds up his hands in surrender.
They’re all looking at me like I’ve lost my mind. I don’t get like this over anyone, and especially not chicks. I fuck them and move on, never hitting the same one twice.
Unlike my parents, that love shit isn’t for me.
“Good. See that you don’t.” I look back down into my textbook, not really paying attention to the shit on the pages, but it’s enough to keep them from fucking talking to me so it’s worth it.
My watch beeps as a warning that my next class is starting in five minutes, but I’m seriously done with today.
I get up and leave the group without a word, not that they’ll give a shit. They hang out with me for the status. They couldn’t give a fuck about how I act as long as they can claim to be friends with a legacy.
I don’t even realize where my feet are taking me until I come face to face with Brian as he’s leaving the dorms.
Fuck this shit. I need to know where she is, and I need to know now.
“Where the hell is she?” I snarl at him, and he glares back at me.
“That’s none of your concern.” He looks at me pointedly, almost like he’s bored and I want to strangle him.
“Let’s just say I’m making it my concern, angel boy. Where. Is. She?” I grit out.
“Why do you care?” He’s being infuriating. Taunting me, and looking at me like he would rather knock me out than answer me.
Fucking angels.
I get it. She’s his and I’m not supposed to care. But guess what? I do care.
“No answer? Shocking. You just want to know everything that happens, and it’s eating you alive that she wants nothing to do with you.” He goes to step around me and I stop him.
“Let’s pretend for a minute that I’m not the all encompassing asshole you think I am. I am, but let’s say I do care.” I take a deep breath to keep my anger under control. “Where is she?”
He stares at the hand I’m using to hold his arm then looks up to my eyes. I think I see a brief flash of understanding, but I refuse to think he knows more about me than I do myself. Angels always have to know fucking everything.
“She’s asleep,” he states.
I scoff at him, but the look on his face says he’s being truthful. She can’t be asleep. Not for days.
“Asleep,” I repeat, and he nods before his gaze goes back to the hand on his arm and I release him. “She’s been asleep for days?”
Brian sighs at me like dealing with my ass is the very last thing he wants to be doing in this moment.
“Colten, I’m only going to say this once.” He looks at me, his arms crossed over his chest and his stance wide. I want to laugh because really, he’s an angel. They don’t fucking scare me, but something has me pausing.
“You hurt her, and I will personally make sure you never take another fucking breath and are damned to Hell for all eternity. You will never get to walk this earth again.”
Whoa, angel’s got threats.
“Ignoring that threat for the moment.” I give him an icy stare. “What the fuck are you trying to get at, angel?”
The look he gives me is one I don’t like. It’s filled with knowing and realization, and shit I don’t want to deal with.
“You’re drawn to her.” I scoff, but don’t meet his gaze. He can’t possibly know that. “You are. I know. I’ve been watching you, and I know her.”
I turn my head back to meet his gaze quickly, and he smirks.
Asshole.
“Yeah, thought so. But hear me on this. She is my fucking heart, and if you hurt her, I will make it my life’s mission to destroy you,” he snarls at me and starts to walk away.
What.
The.
Fuck.
I whip around to holler at him before he gets too far.
“What are you saying, Brian?” He can’t mean what I think he means. I mean…they are together. Everyone knows it.
