Riya's POV
"I love you"
Hiram's words hung in the air between us and I could feel my heart beating rapidly , my breath coming to shallow gasps. I searched his eyes, looking for any trace of doubts, any reason to believe that what he had just said was not true.
"Whatever." I could hear the girls huff behind us before stomping away again.
Finally left alone with Hiram again, I felt tempted to ask Hiram if he meant his words but just as I opened my eyes to ask, Hiram beat me to it.
"Those rascals." He said, staring at the directions that the girls followed. "They're finally gone. I thought they would never leave."
I blinked my eyes as he spoke, breaking from the trance that those three words had set my brain in.
"Wait. You did that to get them off of our back?"
"Yep." He sent me a sm
