Chapter 36

 Before I could react, Enzo dragged Kyle away from me by his collar. 

“A verbal thank you would be enough,” Enzo snapped, his face a little sullen. 

Kyle laughed dryly and kept glancing upstairs; I immediately understood what he meant. Kyle had probably brought his date home, but he didn’t want Lilla and Enzo to know. 

The most important thing to do now was to get Enzo and Lilla away. I focused on the unfinished red wine glass and pretended to head to the sofa to sit down. 

But then… I turned my hell and hit the coffee table directly. The glass fell to the ground, spilling red wine all over my dress. 

“Oh, dear!” I exclaimed. 

Enzo walked over. “What’s wrong?” 

I learned on him and gasped, “I knocked on the coffee table with my knee, and my skirt is ruined.” 

“It’s okay, I have clean clothes in my room. You can wear mine for now,” Lilla said. 

Just what I wanted. 

But instead of following Lilla upstairs, I raised my head to look at Enzo and frowned. “I hit my leg, and it hurts. Could you carry me upstairs?” 

narrowed his golden-brown eyes. Then a playful smile

I was faking it, but he seemed happy

that I was a little embarrassed. Seeing – the faint smile in Enzo’s eyes, I bury my head into

down. “I’ll wait outside,”

not knowing what to say but blurting out in panic, “I can’t reach the zipper on my back. Can you help me?” My face must be burning red like fire right now. Lilla had just found a dress

be out then,” Lilla said, biting her

had given Kyle enough time to whisk his date away, so I didn’t stop her. Now, the problem was on

awkwardly feeling Enzo’s icy fingertips touch the hollow of my

down slowly, and my

in my ear with both hands on my shoulder, standing

I swallowed. “You can wait outside

the eye, but I could feel

took a deep breath before safely changing out of my clothes. Because of this incident, I felt guilty

 

look at him as I tidied up my wind-blown hair and

his face and didn’t expose me, instead

be

my hold on the

to the side of the road after

startled by his actions.

shirt, his slender fingers still on the steering wheel. His throat bobbed up, then he looked at me and said,

understand. “Isn’t

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