Chapter 16
Sebastien stepped back into the kitchen and slid the patio door shut behind him. “Do you wanna bail? We can go. Right now. Just the say the word and we’re out of here.”
We’d been at his father’s place for less than fifteen minutes, but I was already losing my cool. A few minutes ago, I’d made up a fake phone call in order to catch a break from his father’s underhanded jabs at me. The man was obviously mortified by my presence in his house and the more I tried to act straight—God, why was I doing that?—the more high-pitched my voice sounded to me and the more my mannerisms seemed out of my control.
Why was I doing this to myself again? Why was I trying to act butch for a man I barely respected?
Seb peered through the dirty glass door at his father who was on the deck. “All ri
