“Aren,” I let out in a low breath. My shock was evident in the way I was frozen to ice. What was she doing here? How did she get in?
“I get ditching classes but ditching me to hang out with your new friends makes me feel a little hurt,” she said. Aren turned on her heel and walked away, disappearing into the crowd as suddenly as she had appeared.
“Ren. Wait!”
Her words made me feel like the lowest scum. I hadn’t called her to check on her after her near kidnapping. My guilt nearly buried me. She was one of the very few people, two really, I’d call a friend. And I had been ass at it lately.
I felt Dane try to pull me back into the cage of his arms but I broke away from him and chased after her. The crowd was working against me as I tried to manoeuvre my way through. It didn’t help that
