#Chapter 44 Not-So-Bad Boy

#Chapter 44: Not-So-Bad Boy

Nina

I didn’t want to admit it, but I was relieved that Enzo was here. I accepted his offer to drive me home and followed him out to the police station parking lot.

As we walked out to the parking lot, my stomach audibly growled. I had forgotten how hungry I was due to the fight, but now that my adrenaline was calming down I realized that I was starving. Enzo,must have heard it, too, because he looked down at me with a frown.

“Sorry,” I said, blushing. “I didn’t eat lunch today.”

#Chapter 44 Not-So-Bad Boy

Enzo stopped in his tracks and frowned even deeper. “Why not?”

I shrugged. “I was busy,” I replied…

Wordlessly, Enzo handed me his spare helmet and climbed onto the motorcycle. He gestured for me to get on behind him, and once I was situated, he started the bike and pulled out of the parking lot.

Except… He drove in the opposite direction of the campus.

“Where are we going?” I asked, nervously holding onto his waist as we went around a corner. The smell of his leather jacket mixed with the smell of the cold night air and filled my lungs.

“You’re hungry,” he said over his

shoulder. “I’m hungry, too.”

“But I don’t have any money-”

“I don’t care,” Enzo replied.

be able to hear me anyway; not that I would have protested. As the dark forest of tall pine

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the diner parking lot as it was the only restaurant in this small town that was open this late. I bit my lip nervously as

wrong?” Enzo asked, taking off his helmet and shaking his curly hair loose like a

nothing,”

“Tell

to say. “I… Was sort of let go from here,” I said

Enzo asked, his frown

here a few weeks ago

few

‘ take some time off’. But that’s just code for

the diner anyway. “You coming?” he called over

was hungry, so I jogged

couple of other tables at which sat sleepy students who either had the late-night munchies or who were last-minute cramming for

took out her notepad to take our order. “Where

to

I get for

a coffee,” Enzo replied. “And a grilled cheese. Extra

for me,” I said. Millie smiled and walked away to put in our

drinker too, huh?” Enzo asked

nights studying in the library have conditioned me to

you work,” he said quietly, averting

a guy like Enzo to tease me for being so

major, anyway?”

rolling his eyes. “As requested by my

of some foreign company, but I didn’t know that Enzo was connected to it in any way. I supposed it made sense, but I could tell that Enzo wasn’t interested in

you be

you choose

a bit, like he had never been asked this question

don’t know, honestly,” Enzo replied. “I’ve never thought about

I said, feeling intrigued now. “There has to be something you like. And don’t just say hockey. There has

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