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“I already called you a car.”

“This is what I get for trying to be nice.”

“After you were so cruel?” He bumps my arm with his elbow. “Hot and cold, little wolf.”

My cheeks heat.

“Fine.” I can take his dismissal, especially masked as concern. “Is the car here?”

“Probably.”

I stand and tuck my phone into my pocket.

“Hey, Margo?”

I turn back to him, quirking my lips.

“Might want to button your shirt.”

My whole body catches on fire. Caleb’s laughter chases me up the stairs. I close my shirt and tuck it back into my skirt.

Nothing even happened.

I mean, I just discovered Caleb’s uncle is probably a sadist, and I’m way more head over heels for Caleb than I thought.

We can call thatnothing, right?

Chapter 20

Caleb

Everything hurts. I barely made it home, sunglasses shielding the worst of my face in case I saw someone I knew. My uncle almost threatened to have me stay until I was presentable, but I begged off.

The Blacks are still out of town, handling a family emergency in Chicago. I didn’t mention that Eli decided to come back early. I can’t fathom why, besides maybe a certain junior girl who has his dick in a vise.

He didn’t see me this morning, though. I called him on my way back to Rose Hill, but he was already heading to school. I hinted at my situation.

I didn’t expect him to tell Margo.

Liam and Theo are the first in, turning on every damn light in the basement. I grimace and throw my shoe at them, not caring who it hits. Lucky me, I nail Liam in the chest.

He grunts, catching it before it drops.

“You had Margo freaked out,” Liam announces. He does a double take, though, and lets the shoe fall from his grasp instead of throwing it back.

“I know,” I say, ignoring the way both Theo and Liam are staring at me. “She showed up.”

I can’t say I’m mad about it. Not at her. It makes me actuallyhappythat she came to me—a buzzing in my chest like a million wasps. But I am pissed at my friends for being so fucking transparent.

Eli shrugs. “She’s a feisty one. Riley stole my car for the expedition.”

“Margo interrogated all of us.” Theo flops on the couch. “Guess who gave in?”

“Eli,” Liam, Theo, and I all say at once.

I laugh, then groan in pain. I push myself up and relocate to the couch. My knee fuckinghurts. I’ve never dislocated it before, but Uncle had a doctor in to set it. He blamed it on me. I can’t even remember what he said to him, but a lot of cash changed hands.

In theory, my knee should be fine. But I can’t put my full weight on it.

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