Page 85 of Forced Proximity
“None taken,” I paused. “Wait, how do you know about my sister and Eugene?”
Because I knew for a fact I hadn’t given him that information…had I?
He flashed me a smile. “I followed you.”
“You followed me?”
“Yeah,” he answered. “When you left the restaurant that night when you saw me having dinner with Eugene, I followed you out of the parking lot. I was…curious.”
“Curious,” I drawled, not sure how I felt about him following me.
Or, more accurately, I wasn’t sure how I felt about my lack of feelings knowing he followed me.
“I followed you to the neighborhood. Opened the gate for you. Twice.” He started the car up. “You intrigued me, and I have a tendency to hyper fixate.”
I snorted just as another thought occurred to me. “You were ahead of me in line in security. You made that happen, didn’t you?”
He shrugged. “It’s child’s play getting into the airport systems. And American Airlines security is a joke. I’ve been hacking into them for airline miles since I could log into my dad’s computer. I kicked that man out of his seat and put you in his place.” He shot me a look before pulling out of the lot. “I think we lucked out fairly well, don’t you?”
“I feel kind of bad, though,” I admitted. “That’s some Final Destination stuff. I mean, I cheated death there. Now I’m sure that I’ll be followed for the rest of my life. Then the rest of my bloodline.”
He took a left out of the parking lot and came to a sudden halt when a car cut him off and pulled into the lot out of nowhere.
“What the fuck?” I asked.
“That’s Eugene,” he murmured as he just shook his head and pulled out of the lot, heading in the opposite direction.
“I swear to God,” she groaned. “If they make me have to move out of a second apartment, I’m never going to forgive them.”
His chuckle warmed my heart. But it was his next words that had me glancing over at him and shaking my head.
“You should just move in with me, and your apartment issues would be solved.”
Shaking my head, I said, “You can’t be serious. We’ve known each other for like a week!”
His eyes were heavy when he said, “We fell out of the sky together. Then got attacked by said sky once we crashed into the ground. You held my dying brother’s hand when he passed away, and you’ve literally been the rock that I didn’t know I needed for days. I think a week is plenty enough time to know that you’re special and I want you around.” He turned his gaze back to the road as he said, “I’ll wait as long as it takes, but I’m certainly not going anywhere.”
I didn’t know what to say to that, so I said nothing at all.
Was it absolutely crazy to be contemplating his offer? Yes.
Was I contemplating it anyway? Yes, I was.
Seventeen
In the interest of full transparency, it was not easy peasy lemon squeezy.
—Apollo to Dru
APOLLO
I blinked open my eyes and stared at the ceiling for a few long seconds as I tried to get my bearings.
The pounding came for a second time and I forced myself to get up.
I forwent pants, and climbed down the stairs with a gun in my hand, forgetting momentarily that I had house guests.
I blinked when I saw several men in the hallway, already looking at the door like it would be blown in at any second.
