Page 11 of The Hunt
“Stay out of my life, Apollo,” I growled, heading toward a back room where I had left my belongings. While I hated to admit it, Apollo wasn’t entirely wrong, which irked me more than anything.
“Not a chance,” he said, following after me. “Not a fucking chance.”
And somehow, I knew he meant it.
CHAPTER 7
APOLLO
“Thanks for ruining the night,” Daphne said, marching toward the parking lot with her keys in her hand. A sheet of snow covered the lot, inches thick, and the plow hadn’t been through to clear it yet. “Hope to see you never.”
I snatched her keys from her. “First of all, you’re welcome. Second, you’re not driving.”
“Give me my keys back,” she said, reaching for them.
But I held them above my head, so she had no shot. “We’re in the middle of a storm.”
“Well, I need to go home.”
“Well, you shouldn’t have come up here then.”
“Well, I like to volunteer, unlike you who’d rather sit home all day and sleep with a bunch of girls, because you don’t have to work for a living like everyone else in our goddamn town! You have a career already set out by your daddy.”
I gritted my teeth. “You don’t know anything about me.”
“Tell me that’s a lie then.”
My nostrils flared. It wasn’t a lie. Dad had a career set out for me, even though he knew full well that I didn’t want to be a corrupt businessman like he had been ever since Mom had died. No, I wanted to have a chance at saving someone like her.
Medicine… was what I wanted to do, not finance, not numbers, not business.
“Sounds like I’m right, huh?”
“I don’t give a fuck whether you’re right or not. You’re still not driving home.”
The roads were covered in inches of snow, and Daphne’s car looked like it shouldn’t even leave little ol’ Redwood, nevermind drive for two hours in the middle of a snowstorm back there!
Daphne jumped up onto me, trying to reach her keys. “Give them!”
“No.”
“Stop being a dickhead! It’s freezing out here!”
I spotted a hotel across the street. “We’re staying in a hotel tonight.”
“We?!” she exclaimed. “I’m not doing anything like that with you!”
God, she’s so fucking hot when she’s mad.
“Yes, you are.”
“No, I’m not.”
Realizing that I wasn’t going to get through to her out here, I turned on my heel and hurried across the street, the snow coming down even heavier now. “Have fun freezing out here!” I called over my shoulder, slipping into the hotel lobby.
She yelled something in my direction that I couldn’t quite hear as the lobby doors snapped shut, and I headed to the front desk, leaning onto the counter and flashing the clerk a smile I gave all the girls.
“One night, please.”
