Page 38 of Never Fall for an Angel

“I guess some things never change.”

“If you’re here to take me back, I’m not going.”

Another moment of heavy silence rings in the air between us. Five years of memories. A whole lot of fucking trauma. A .9mm bullet and the wound to prove it.

I cock a brow at her, a rush of tension flowing through me. Honey, vanilla, and fuckingher. The combination that’s going to be the death of me someday.

I’d once told her to forget about me and move on with her life. I never expected her to actually fucking try.

Fucking poetic, isn’t it?

“Where are you staying?”

She stares at me as if the concept is foreign.

“Mila. Where have you been staying?” I ask again, and her gaze narrows.

“I thought I was never going to see you again.”

I fix her with a bored stare. We aren’t getting intothattonight. She’ll have plenty of time to hate me later.

When she realizes she’s not getting an answer out of me, she falls back into the seat with a huff.

“Just let me out.”

“I can’t do that, Mila.”

Pulling out onto the street, I merge with what little traffic is out at this time of night and start toward the motel. She doesn’t think to ask how I know where to go, and I’m glad.

Instead, she’s chewing on her bottom lip, glancing around us nervously as if SWAT is going to pop out of the manhole cover beside us at the light.

“You’re acting suspicious,” I tell her when she checks behind us for the third time.

“Sorry,” she rolls her eyes. “It’s my first vehicular homicide.”

“It’s only vehicular homicide if he dies. He’ll live. Painfully, for a while, but unfortunately, he’ll live.”

“You just said earlier you hope he died.”

“Hope and fact are two different things, little devil.”

“Don’t—don’t call me that.”

“Too far?”

She glowers at me, cheeks burning a pretty pink.

“Fuck you, Christian.”

“Good girl. The scared and helpless act was getting old.”

“I don’t want you here.”

“You shouldn’t be out alone.”

“Right,” she growls, and I love that I’m getting under her skin. It almost feels like old times. “I’m working on my teleportation skills. I’m sure I’ll have it down in no time.”

I cock a brow at her, and her cheeks burn when she turns away from me.

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