#Chapter 58: Walls Around His Heart

Kayla The car was quiet at first, save for the low hum of the engine and the faint swish of the wipers brushing snow off the windshield. Noah didn’t say a word as we watched Nicholas speed away—not that I could blame him. We were both just sitting there in shock for different reasons that ultimately boiled down to the same person. Nicholas. I still couldn’t believe that he had used the mate bond against me. I could forgive the other stuff, but using the bond to force a kiss on me, just to drive home his half-baked point? I wasn’t sure if I could forgive that. Finally, after staring at the retreating cloud of snow behind Nicholas’s car for a long moment, Noah sighed and put the car in drive. I sank down a little in my seat as he pulled away from the side of the road and headed in the direction of home. “Was he always this much of a jackass?” The words blurted out of me before I could stop them, but I didn’t care. I was too angry to have a filter