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“Is it something that can wait?”
She rolled her eyes again. “It’s office stuff, as usual. It absolutely can.”
Still, I saw the uncertainty in her gaze as we walked out the door. I was tempted to make her stay, but I doubted she would do that either.
Mollie was quiet on the drive. I liked the quiet, but she didn’t. Usually, she was talking through every moment of silence.
When we pulled into the school parking lot, she hadn’t said a word to me. I looked over to check on her, only to find that she was asleep against the window of the truck.
“Mollie?” I said. “Dammit, I knew you were working yourself too hard.”
She didn’t answer.
“Hey, come on. Wake up so I can tell you how dumb you’re being.”
I reached out to jostle her. The best place to touch her would have been a shoulder or an arm.
I let my palm rest on her cheek like a fucking idiot.
She jolted awake, sucking in a breath of air. I jerked back, not wanting to be caught acting like a creep.
“Shit, sorry.” Her voice was thick as she stretched. “I’m ready to go.”
“You’re way too tired for this.”
“I’m fine.”
“Mollie.”
She didn’t answer and went to open the door. I locked them so she couldn’t leave.
“What the—Cain!”
“You need rest.”
“I can get it when we’re done here.”
“I’m taking you back home.”
“Absolutely not!”
“You can’t stop me.”
I shouldn’t have said that, because she took it as a challenge. She ripped the keys out of the ignition. I tried to grab them from her, but she was way too fast.
She unbuckled her seat belt and tried to use the unlock button on her door, but it was busted. Never had I been more glad that I’d never fixed it. But then I quickly regretted everything when she reached over me to get to my unlock button. I tried to fight her off, which resulted in her tumbling into my lap and her ass hitting the horn on the truck.
She jerked forward, but there was nowhere for her to go but closer to me.
“What thefuck?”I hissed.
“You shouldn’t have challenged me.”
“So this is what you do?”
She hit the button and got off my lap, which immediately felt cold without her heat. I closed my eyes, trying to pictureanythingother than what had just happened.
I opened the door, only to see Nicole glaring at me with her arms crossed.