Page 99 of Eat You Alive (Court Legacy 4)

My eyebrow arched, confused. “A call?”

“Yes. To Kurt?” He glanced round. “Everything is squared away there. You don’t have to worry about anything.”

Out of all the things I believed would come out of his mouth, it wasn’t this. It wasn’t that. “Okay.”

People still moved around, still in this conversation, and I didn’tgetthis. Why would he want to do this here? This made no sense. He tucked hands under his arms. “So that’s done. You’re good, and I didn’t want you to worry.”

I still didn’t get this, my heart racing. Someone else came to ask him a question, but when they did, Wolf waved the guy off.

“We just need a second. Please,” he said, like this would take a second. Like the talk we ultimately needed to have would only be seconds.

Like it was nothing.

Angry now, I faced the room. “Everyone get out.”

They all stopped. Everything stopped, and Wolf eyed me. “What are you doing?”

I was doing what he obviously couldn’t. I pointed toward the door. “I want everyone out of my dorm room.Now.”

Everyone but Wolf, I meant, and he definitely knew that, his attention still on me. He started to say something but ended up facing the room too.

“You heard her,” he said, his jaw tight. He clearly didn’t want to do this, but I didn’t care.

We were going to do this.

All his foot soldiers cleared the room in an assembly line, and I stared at the ceiling.

Calm down.

But I was screaming inside, livid. I gazed at Wolf. “Now, say what you have to say.”

“What?”

“Say what you have to say. What you clearly felt you couldn’t say, which was why you filled this room up with so many fucking people.”

It was a cop-out, and he had to think me stupid to believe otherwise.

He laced fingers above his head. “Fawn…”

“No. Don’t fucking do that.” I approached him, pointing at him. “You eased in herewith all these fucking peopleso you could run out of here and not have to answer to shit. Not have to answer to us.”

I hated I raised my voice. I hated I was hurt, but I couldn’t help it.

I just couldn’t.

He couldn’t deal and went running like a fucking jerk away from me.

“I just didn’t want you put on the spot,” he admitted, and I blanched. He lowered his arms. “With people here,youwouldn’t have to say anything. Address anything.”

Iwouldn’t have to…

Right.

I laughed now, really laughing. I shifted in my sneakers. “I can’t believe you’re doing this. Really doing this.”

“What?”

He was really going to make me say it. I swallowed. “I said I may love you, Wolf,” I said, and he twitched. I nodded. “I said that, and you couldn’t fucking deal, so you went running for the hills.”

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