Ethan's POV (Bonus Book)

Chapter Thirty-six

Mia let out another impatient huff before drawing her eyes away from the car window so she could once again glare at me. "Just tell me where we're fucking going already."

She'd been asking me the same question for the last ten minutes, and with Mia's naturally impatient tendencies, she wasn't coping too well with my lack of reply.

Part of the reason why I wasn't telling her, was because the place I was driving her to was supposed to be a surprise. That and telling her I was dragging her out here to confess my undying love for her was something I wasn't all too keen to tell her any earlier than I planned.

I'd decided to pick somewhere a little remote to talk, figuring there was a lesser chance of people witnessing what was undeniably going to be a pretty uncomfortable rejection. Mia and I were good enough friends now, that I knew she'd be nice enough to not directly laugh in my face, but she was still inadvertently going to have to say something harsh.

I let out an exasperated sigh. "For the last, and final time, Chubs, you'll see when we fucking get there."

Mia didn't remove her gaze from mine, and her eyes slowly narrowed into slits – suspicious slits. The kinds of look you give when you're trying to guess what's happening in someone's head. It scared me.

Did she already know what I was about to do? Was I that fucking obvious. I mean, yes I had been noticeably obsessed with her for the past six years and found constant ways to insert myself into her life, but I mean...it wasn't obvious.

"Are you trying to kill me or something?" Mia randomly announced, breaking the harsh silence that had been building up in the car.

I let out another long groan in frustration, realizing she was just not going to drop this. Believe it or not, this was the third time Mia had asked me this question. I was honestly starting to think she was genuinely asking at this point.

I mean, sure I gave off a few psychotic tendencies from time to time, like the time I blackmailed her for breaking into my bedroom and then temporarily kidnapped her. But that was all in the past, and she surely couldn't think I was murder bad.

I took my eyes off the road briefly, to give her a dry look. "I wasn't planning on killing you, but I may change my mind if you don't shut up."

Like a weirdo, Mia's mouth immediately slid up into a smile. "I'm pretty sure, that was a confession," she sang brightly, with a triumphant spark in her eyes.

What in the...

Rolling my eyes at her, I tried to hide the smile from my face as I shook my head lightly in amusement. "You're actually an idiot, Chubs," I laughed.

"That sounds to me, like the nervous laugh of someone who knows they've been discovered," Mia drawled, her largened eyes scanning me up and down long and judgmentally.

Ignoring her, I just focused on parking the car by the edge of the curb by the entrance to the forest.

"Relax drama pants, we're here so you can stop with the guesses," I chuckled as I switched off the engine.

Mia so distracted with taunting me about my hypothetical murdering tendencies, turned in surprise and looked out the window.

She eyed the border of trees lining the edge of the forest for slightly longer than normal, before turning to look out the opposite window and observing the same sight once again. It was more than obvious she was confused.

Slowly, she turned to look at me with a partially raised brow. "Okay I was kind of joking about you killing me before, but now I'm not too sure anymore...," she mumbled in suspicion as her eyes once more narrowed.