Chapter 32: Friend zone

Ari's POV

Watching her run away from me triggered something in me. It also made me ask myself a question. Why did I torment her about the kiss with Dev?

I wasn't a cruel or mean person but somehow she brings out the worst in me whenever she's around me.

I mean what about Ani brings out my most horrible and primal instinct?

Was my hostility a cloak hiding a deeper problem? Or was I just a bad person?

I strolled back to the Impala and I tried to push Ani out of my mind as I drove Dev to the clinic.

I turned my attention to the girl beside me. She seemed lost in her own head. I wondered whether I should talk about the kiss we shared, I mean it was the only logical explanation for her showing up on my doorstep an hour after the incident that happened in the gym with a bleeding hand that had a piece of silver dagger still embedded in it.

We didn't have a conversation about why she showed up at the mansion instead of going to the clinic. I simply took my keys and I offered to drive her to a