Page 304 of Forbidden Billionaires: Vol 4
I stepped back from him. “I’m fine.”
“Come on. I’ll show you where it is.” He slipped his hand around my upper arm and started pulling me off the dance floor.
Felix stepped in front of him, putting his hand on his chest. “I’ll take her.”
Rob glanced back down at me. “You here with him?”
I nodded, feeling incredibly awkward that Rob was holding my arm.
“Huh.” Rob smiled. “This night keeps getting more and more interesting.” He looked back at Felix. “I promise I’m not stealing your girl. But the bathrooms downstairs are getting redone. I know where the ones upstairs are. I’m just escorting her. I swear.”
Felix didn’t move.
I looked down at my dress. As much as I’d rather Felix help me find a bathroom, if I didn’t get cold water on the stain right now, it would set. “It’s fine, Felix. I’ll be right back.”
“I’ll keep him entertained,” Kennedy said and started dancing even though Felix was just staring at me.
Rob pulled me toward the doors of the ballroom. “I thought you stopped seeing Felix when you canceled on him Thursday night.”
“I didn’t cancel on him.” I found myself getting closer and closer to Rob as he led me down the dark hallway.
“Very very interesting.”
Why on earth did he think I canceled my dinner plans with Felix? I was pretty clear in class that I had no intention to.
“Well, I feel obligated to tell you that your friend likes him then.”
“Who…you?”
Rob laughed. “As happy as I am to hear that you think of me as a friend…no. I’m not into dudes. I was talking about Kennedy.”
“You’re into Kennedy?”
He looked down at me. “Are you drunk?”
“No.” I shook my head. “I don’t know. Maybe?”
He laughed. “Kennedy likes Felix.” We walked into the foyer and I was distracted by the chandelier. The death chandelier.
“She doesn’t like Felix,” I said. “She used to freshman year. Now I’m pretty sure she hates him.”
“No way. She definitely wants him.” He led me up the stairs.
“Wanna bet? Rob, are you sure there aren’t any bathrooms I can use downstairs?” In such an enormous house it seemed ridiculous that there wasn’t one, just one, I could use that wasn’t up here. The higher we climbed, the colder it felt. And as we started walking down the hallway I knew something wasn’t right. Why had I agreed to come up here with him? Why wasn’t I running in the opposite direction? If there was one thing I’d learned in the past few weeks, it was that it was better to stay away from the Untouchables. The reasoning behind their nickname was becoming more clear every day.
“You know what? I have a different bet to make with you,” Rob said, ignoring my question. He stopped walking and I almost tripped as he tugged on my arm.
We were alone in the hallway. It was possible that Mason was still in one of these rooms, but I didn’t remember which one. I had the fleeting feeling that no one would be able to hear me if I screamed. “Is it true? The rumor about the Caldwell’s great great grandmother?”
“You’re definitely drunk. We were in the middle of a bet, Sanders.” His fingertips lightly tapped the bottom of my chin, drawing my gaze up to his. “Focus.”
I stared at him. That permanent smile was still on his face. And I found myself wishing that I liked him instead of his brooding friend. I quickly dismissed the thought. I didn’t like Matt. I liked Felix. Felix, Felix, Felix.
“I bet you that I’ll have you screaming my name in 60 seconds.”
The first thing that popped into my mind was an image of Rob throwing me over the balcony. James wasn’t the first person to threaten me from my new school. Charlotte told me I’d disappear. Was this it? Were she and Rob in cahoots? I’d forget about Felix because I’d be as dead as Matt’s great great grandmother. I pulled my arm out of Rob’s grip. I wasn’t going to take another threat from a stupid Hunter. “Fat chance, asshole.”
He just kept smiling. “Asshole? I thought we were friends, Sanders?”
