“I don’t know if I would get into the middle if I were you.”
“What’s going on with them anyway?” His pinched brows tells me he is just as confused as I am.
“She has convinced herself that he is cheating on her because she went to surprise him last night and he wasn’t working at the garage like he said he was. Do you know where he was?”
Killian gets a deer in the headlights expression on his face. “I do.”
“Are you going to tell me where he was?”
“No.”
“No?” I scoff and cross my arms over my chest.
“It’s up to Liam to tell her.”
I want to shake him and demand he tell me, but Liam is his best friend like Hayley is mine. I wouldn’t betray her confidence either. “That’s fair.”
We get up to the dorm, but Hayley is gone. She didn’t leave a note and when I text her, I don’t get a response. “She must be in class,” I tell him. I can’t remember her full schedule. I do good to keep up with my own.
I flop down on my bed and Killian joins me. “Don’t go to your dance class, stay here in bed with me.”
“I have to work on my writing assignment,” I remind him.
“If I can’t tempt you away from an assignment, I must be losing my touch.” He kisses me, and I push him away giggling.
“Stop. I need to brush my teeth. I probably have onion breath from my lunch.”
“Maybe you do a little.” He grins.
I pop off the bed and go into the bathroom.
After I brush my teeth, I find him holding my phone. “Why is Hunter texting you and saying it was nice to see you today?”
I should be asking him why he is checking my phone, but I don’t want to fight. “I ran into him before I left to go to my appointment, and he asked if we could still be friends.”
“He only wants to fuck you.”
“And you don’t?”
“Liri,” he breathes my name out angrily. “I told you I wanted to get to know you. I meant that.”
“I’m sorry. I don’t want to fight. It’s just you can’t tell me I can’t talk to Hunter when you are friends with Jackie and Misty. It’s a double standard and it’s not fair.”
“I saw him kiss you at the party.”
“Oh.”
“It made me want to punch his face in. The thought of him trying to kiss you again has me thinking of running him down in my car.”
“Don’t be crazy. I told him that we are complicated.”
He snorts. “That we are. C’mere.”
I go to him and he hugs my waist as he sits on my bed. I run my fingers through his hair, and he smiles lazily.
“I will try not to beat up your friend but if tries to kiss you again I will destroy him.”
“You have nothing to worry about.”