Page 173 of Catch Me
A knock made me toss the tablet on the bed. I flung open the door, ready to kick Kai in his nosey balls.
“I told you, I’m not—” I stopped abruptly when I saw Travis standing there. He looked just as pissed as before, which I wasn’t sure how to interpret.
“Hey,” I said.
“Hey...” He trailed off, then shook his head. “Ride with me.”
“No.”
“There’s room on the bus. Nobody will care.”
“No,” I repeated.
“Seriously? You practically begged me a few minutes ago, but now it’sno?”
“I didn’t beg. I opened up to you and told you what I want.”
“Just ride with me, Roman. I want you at the game.”
“You told me to go home,” I snapped. “I’m starting to think you don’t know what the hell you want.”
“Stop being an asshole.”
“Well, I am an asshole, remember?”
“Not anymore.”
“You don’t know me anymore,” I said through gritted teeth.
Shaking his head, he turned around and jabbed the button for the elevator. When the doors closed, shutting him away, I tapped my fingers against my leg. With a muttered curse, I grabbed my tablet and left the room, taking the stairs.
I reached the parking garage and saw the guys getting into the SUV they’d rented. Kai grinned at me, but I couldn’t muster more than a tight-lipped smile. After I climbed in, Linc leaned closer.
“How many times are you guys gonna do this before you give in?”
“I tried. Now, I’m done.”
“Want me to kick his ass?”
Despite everything, I laughed. “Even if you were serious, no. I guess we’ll just be stuck in this perpetual back and forth that never goes anywhere.”
“Let him come to you.”
“He won’t.”
“That’s how I got West. Showed up at his apartment to fight roaches for him, he got pissed and left, then he was at my door that night, yelling some shit about King Tut.”
“Sounds romantic.”
“All of our relationships started out sort of unconventional. And there were points in all of them when one person could’ve walked away, but they didn’t. Mine had a few and so did Tilian’s. People say it’s about the journey, but sometimes, the journey actually sucks. You still have to go on it, though.”
“Or we could have a movie night and forget all of our problems.”
“I pick Lion King II,” Kai chimed in. “It’s underrated.”
Sen snorted a laugh. “It has nothing to do with the guy lying and fucking things up, then having to prove himself not to be an asshole?”
“This is why you’re not invited to movie nights,” I muttered as I leaned against the door and stared out the window.
