Chapter 41: Watch Out for the After BiteI’d been fooling around on my phone long enough. What was taking Derek so long?
Then as I was going to check up on him, I heard him retching in the bathroom, and hurried to the bathroom door. “Hey,” I said, pushing on it, but before I could get inside the washroom, he’d shoved his heel against the door, slamming it in my face. “Don’t come in!” he shouted in a hoarse voice.
“Derek—”
“No!”
I hesitated, and then as silently as I could, put my hand on the door handle.
“Go pour yourself a drink, Nicolai!”
I felt a little twitch of annoyance in my jaw but took a deep breath and moved away from the door. Five years ago, I’d have knocked on that door incessantly, ordering him to come out, and things would have escalated into a full-blown fight. Though
