Chapter 302
THERON
I got out of Willa's room in a thoroughly bad mood, sure that all the advice I had just given her had fallen on deaf ears. The first person I laid my eyes on was Lucian walking down the corridor.
Swaggering actually. Moving in that way he had like he owned the ground under his feet.
I stopped in my tracks.
Why was the universe messing with me? Why did I have to run into the last person on earth I wanted to see?
Lucian stopped too. He tucked the phone he had been fiddling with into his pocket and then came on but only as far as I was.
He looked over my shoulder at the door of number 12, Willa's room. When he looked at me again, he was frowning.
"Looks like you went to see Willa," he said. "Well? Did you?" he added when I didn't say anything.
I raised a brow. Since when had Lucian started asking me questions? I had been willing to bet he would have just walked on. Or maybe gone out of his way to shove me aside like he had done at the parking lot earlier.
Not that I would have let him get away with that bullshit the second time.
"I don't need to explain myself to you," I said. I spread my arms to include the entire place we were standing in. "Last I checked this place is not your dorm room or your personal property. Besides it's none of your business what I do with my girlfriend."
Lucian crossed his arms over his chest and gave me a once over, one that was meant to be insulting. I returned the favour.
And as I did, I tried to see him the way females, Willa especially, would see him. He was wearing faded designer jeans, a dark green tee shirt cut off at the sleeves and boots.
The tee shirt made an agreeable clash with his hair and eyes. It was so tight it showed the outline of his muscles.
I supposed I could see what females would like. That if their taste bordered around the arrogant, muscular pretty boy type with a brain the size of a pea and an untamed something in his pants he probably thought was his greatest asset.
Seriously though, Willa could do better.
"Got your fill?" he asked when my gaze finally went back to his face. "If you haven't, please don't let me stop you. You wouldn't be the first to do it though."
I bit my tongue on the question 'What the hell are you talking about?'
I knew this was Lucian baiting me. I would not fall for it. A rational part of me was telling me to just continue on my way.
But that would be like admitting defeat, wouldn't it? Like running away?
Also he was going to see Willa. No doubt to confuse her thoughts some more. I was not going to let that happen if I could help it.
What that girl needed was space and some perspective so she could see Lucian for what he really was. A player.
"You wouldn't be the first guy to er- drool over me," he went on. "If that's what you're doing just now, I'm sorry. This bod is strictly for the ladies."
"Go to hell," I said and started to leave.
I had decided the asshole wasn't worth my time at the moment. I would find ways to deal with him later.
"Hold on," he said.
For the second time, I stopped walking. I turned to face him again.
For some reason, his eyes were suddenly dancing with amusement and something else. Triumph, maybe?
He grinned.
"What?" I said. "Want to stroke your small ego some more?"
"Actually," he said slowly, tapping his chin. "It's your ego I'm worried about."
"If you've got something to say, then fucking say it."
"Hasn't Willa told you yet?" he drawled. "I'm pretty sure you were in her room just now so she had all the opportunity to. Maybe she was feeling... sorry for you." He shook his head slowly. "She's such a compassionate little thing, isn't she?"
I hated to admit it, but this thing Lucian was doing, skirting slowly around the edge of a revelation, was getting to me. I could feel my muscles start to tense up already.
He's just messing with you, I told myself.
Knowing that fact still didn't help much though.
With that stupid smile still on his lips, Lucian lowered his voice to a confidential whisper. "In camp, Willa and I hooked up. At first we just made out. Then a couple of days ago, we did the real thing-"
"You're lying-"
"Hot steamy sex in my tent under the stars, man. Nothing beats sex in the outdoors and..."
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