Page 49 of Because of Liam

My eyes drift down and I bite my lip.

“You’re not helping, River.”

“What did I do?”

“Stop looking at me like that,” he says and adjusts himself.

I smile because really, what else could I do? He groans and turns around, resting his forehead on the door.

“I can still feel you looking at me. Turn around and don’t look at me. I’ll be back in a minute. I just want to get you water and something to eat before I go home.”

I turn around, but I’m still smiling.

A minute later I hear the door open and I call out to him with a loud whisper, “Don’t impale anyone with that thing.”

He stops, the door half open. “Oh fuck, now you did it again.”

I’m trying not to laugh, but my whole body is shaking with mirth.

He glances over his shoulder at me. “I will make you pay for this.”

“Promise?” I whisper, the laugh no longer in my voice.

Liam says nothing, but his eyes go dark with promise before he leaves my room and quietly closes the door.

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