#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.

not that I would have protested. As the dark forest of tall pine trees on either side of us sped by and I leaned against Enzo, feeling the warmth of his body, I felt like all of my other

I told myself as I started to get too novelxo.com

We’re just friends.

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

it’s nothing,” I

“Tell

“I… Was sort of let go from

Enzo asked,

in here a few weeks ago and broke some glasses. They made it look like

you over a few broken glasses?” Enzo asked, furrowing

he said to ‘ take some

the diner anyway. “You coming?”

really was hungry, so I jogged after

almost entirely empty, save for a couple of other tables at which sat sleepy students who either had the late-night munchies or who were last-minute cramming for exams. We grabbed a booth in the corner, and my old coworker, Millie, came

smile as she took out her notepad to

Millie seemed to get the message

get

replied. “And a

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

coffee drinker too, huh?” Enzo asked with

nodded. “All of the late nights studying in the library have

in his brown eyes. “I think it’s impressive how hard you work,”

I always expected a guy like Enzo to tease me for being so academic, but he was

your major, anyway?”

his eyes. “As requested by

of some foreign company, but I didn’t know that Enzo was connected to it in any way. I

you be doing

you choose anything?” I

a bit, like he had never been asked this

honestly,” Enzo replied. “I’ve never thought

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

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