Chapter 230: Chapter 230
- HAZEL -
I let out an exhale, resting on the car window. These past few days have given me some time to think. Not about anything serious, just more about the right thing to do and my well being.
“When will we get there?” I ask my driver, my eyes still on the road through the tinted window. Since I currently live at home, one of the perks I have is using an Uber less. I have my own chauffeur.
“Soon, Miss Summers. We’re not too far away.” He responds. I sigh. It’s feels like I’ve been sat for hours. I’ve had nothing in my belly since morning, it is still morning by the way, and I’m beginning to have a headache. Kate wanted us girls to meet at her family’s beach house to have some us time before we resume our stressful college lives, no matter how far away the actual resumption date for me and her is. This is the first time all of us will be at a place together and in the same city. While the other ladies have college as well with active ongoing lectures, they surely found ways to make this gathering along with the others to come, work. I for one know if this case was reversed, I wouldn’t be able to, but good thing the universe had other plans for me to enable me not to miss out on all the activities that’ll tag my life as the closest thing to normal over the past few weeks.
This makes a smile form on my face. If I wasn’t so hungry, maybe I would’ve forgotten half my worries but I’ll be fine. A small giggle leaves my lips.
I find it really relaxing but I’m also bothered. It’ll last for a few days and we still have access to everyone else we know but staying that long with the girls while having a pretend boyfriend they’d want to know all about is unnerving. A pretend boyfriend Kate already knows, how well she knows him? I don’t know.
I don’t want to be caught in a lie that she’ll sniff a mile away talk less of just a few feet away from me. I let out a sigh. This may end up being harder than I anticipated. But I won’t let my worry spoil something good that’s yet to come. I’ll think about this along with a solution much later, but now? I’ll live in the present.
With a groan, my eyes come shut and I rest my head backwards. There better be ready made food where I’m headed or I swear, I’ll eat a human being. What’s the difference between human meat and chicken in the face of hunger, anyway?
I burst out laughing. I’ve never been so disgusted by my own thoughts as I am right now and it is funny.
“Hey, look, the bitch is here!” I hear a distant yell in my head.
“Let’s gang up on her for keeping us waiting.”
“Hoo, she won’t know what hit her.”
My brows crease. At the first sentence, I thought I was just hearing things or having some hallucinations due to hunger but after the second and third sentences, I couldn’t help but worry.
My back jerks off the car seat and my eyes open immediately as I peer my head towards the wound up window.
I couldn’t help but grin. They’re all outside. We’re here. And the best part? Pat has a saucer of fruit on her hand that she’s munching on so I can tell there is something to eat. I’d say I missed these people if food wasn’t on my mind right now. I wait for my chauffeur to park the car so I can come out.
The moment the car came to a halt, I gush out. “Resa, Pat!” I yell, all smiled, my body half way out the car door. I feel my heart rate drop and my smile fade when I sight a familiar face. Two actually.
Not the bad ones, but the faces of the two people I never expected to see at all. Killian and Liam. I gulp. This was supposed to be an all girl’s thing, why are they here?
And why does it bother me so much? Why do I feel uncomfortable? After all my depressing thoughts and hunger, I should be happy to see him here as well, I try to convince myself. I look up to face him, trying to not let my gaze be penetrating.
A lady’s hand curls up Killian’s shoulder, hugging him from behind.
Jealousy suddenly hits me. Now I know why I’m bothered. My over-protectiveness is being triggered. Killian did not even resist her touch. I scoff, drawing my eyes away from him and Kate when I feel strong arms cascade the length of my back, pulling me to him. My body stiffens. “It’ll just be me and you, angel.” A deep voice says, bringing me out of my head in the most shocking way possible. Liams face is so close to my ears that I felt his voice vibrate on my skin and can feel his heavy breathing on my neck. This irks and gives me goosebumps. It doesn’t feel as good as it’s supposed to. It doesn’t feel right at all.
With one more look at Killian, my face straightens amidst grit teeth. It was as if a fog just gave way for easy thinking in my head. If he is okay with someone touching him that way in front of me, then I am about to make Liam his biggest nightmare.
Two can play this game quite well, and trust me, only one of the two will win.