Page 55 of Through You
She shakes her arm free from my hold. “And I’m ignoring you.”
Her anger bothers me.
“Is that what you plan to do? Ignore me from here on out?”
“Yes.” She doesn’t hesitate for a second.
“How mature.” I see a spark in her eyes, and it’s of pure anger.
“I hoped at least we could be civil.”
She takes a few steps back and crosses her arms. “And did you decide that before or after you lied to me to get closer?”
“I didn’t lie to you.”
She snorts. “You are shameless.”
“Claudia . . .”
I’m unsure what compels me to raise my hand in an attempt to touch her face. She takes one more step back.
“Don’t touch me.”
I lower my hand. “Claudia, I—”
“Everything all right?” I’m startled by the sound of Apolo’s voice right behind Claudia. I didn’t see him come in.
Claudia turns around in an attempt to leave. “Yes. I was about to turn in.”
However, when she tries to walk by him, Apolo shifts into her path. “Let’s go to my room, we need to talk.”
An electric current zaps through my veins and settles at the pit of my stomach.Don’t touch her, I want to growl.
Claudia appears uncomfortable. “I don’t think this is the right time,” she says.
“I think it is. Let’s go.” Apolo starts to lead her by the arm.
“No, Apolo. Tomorrow.”
I react before I think, and catch up to them. I pull her toward me by the arm that is free and release her from Apolo’s grip.
“She said no.”
Apolo turns to stare at me with a defiance I’ve never seen.
Apolo has always been intimidated by me, but apparently not this time. The tone of his voice is serious. “What I need to discuss with her is none of your business.”
“I don’t like the sound of this.”
I feel anger in every fiber of my being—my jaw is clenched and my shoulders are tense. Claudia loosens her arm from my grip.
My full attention is on Apolo when I speak. “Anything that concerns her is my business.”
Apolo doesn’t hesitate. “And why is that?”
I feel the need to mark my territory. “Because she is involved with me.”
Claudia looks at me, horrified.
