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My eyes cut to him, then back to the road. “I don’t know. I don’t think I can go home.”
“No, you can’t,” he said thoughtfully. “There is one place you can go where you’ll be safe.”
“Where?”
“Back to Sloane’s apartment. You went there, right?”
I had been there. It was safe, tucked away on the top floor, but wouldn’t Orin find me there? Wouldn’t he think to look? Or did he not care, and me disappearing on my own was the solution to all his problems.
“Do you have a key?”
“Yeah. You can stay there a couple of days until you figure things out.”
Figure things out. I mulled those words over in my head until I wanted to scream. I thought I had figured things out, but Orin had to change all that. He didn’t want me. After I’d given myself to him, he didn’t want me, and it was that rejection that cut me so deeply.
I turned in the direction of the waterfront, finding the underground garage opening and descending into the depths. I had to stop when I reached a gate.
“There’s a remote for the gate on your visor,” Keir said. “The key is there too.”
Flipping it down, the key slid out first and I caught it. I found the remote for the gate and clicked the button. It began to open slowly, leaving me anxious as I waited.
“Orin’s going to go berserk, you know,” Keir said.
My gaze flickered from the gate to his face in the back seat. “Not my problem.”
“It might be your problem. He’s in fucking love with you.”
My eyes widened at that statement. “That’s impossible. A man like him doesn’t love. How could he when he has no heart?”
Keir nodded like this wasn’t news to him at all. “He hasn’t told you about his past then?”
“No, and it’s not my business to know about it.”
“It might enlighten you on why he does what he does.”
I pinned him through the mirror. “Why do you care whether I hear him out or not?”
He shrugged, giving me that smile again. “I’ve never seen him so protective of a woman. I think you’d be good for him if only he let himself trust.”
The gate finally opened, and I drove through. “What do you know about his past?”
“A little.”
“But you’re not going to tell me.”
“It’s not my business to tell you. They’re his secrets to keep.”
And didn’t that make me despise him even more. I had told him about the rape. I had opened up to him about everything, but he’d kept his mouth shut about his own dark past. I wanted to be angry, but then I remembered I didn’t owe anything to Orin. I had saved his life, and he had saved mine. We were even now, and anything else wasn’t important.
I pulled the car into a parking spot near an elevator and shut off the engine. Without looking back at Keir, I grabbed my duffel and got out. I stepped up to the elevator panel, pressed the up button, and then waited.
Behind me, Keir got out of the car.
“Will you tell him where I am?” I asked, even though I hated myself for caring if he did.
“Not if you don’t want me to.”
His answer made me turn around and look at him. “Your loyalty would be to me?”
