Rushed (Hate at First Flight #1) ??

29. Ice Mocha with A Dash of Chocolate Truce

"Is it just me or are you trying to come up with excuses to avoid having lunch with me?"

"It's not like-"

"I thought we were going to make this work, Hunt Friends have lunch together. Already backing out?" He arched a brow.

I shook my head. "Fine. I'll go to lunch with you."

"You sound like it's a prison sentence. You know, most girls would kill to have lunch with me." He smiled his signature arrogant smile.

"Yeah, I'm not most girls, Gregory!" I said as I opened the door to his car and get in.

"Don't I know it," he says as he closes the door behind me.

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I watched Dylan curiously as he removed tomatoes from his Double Decker beef burger. "Uhm, what are you doing?" I asked.

Tomatoes were one of my favorite fruits and there he was blatantly discarding them as if they were rubbish.

He paused and looked up. "Oh!" He said guiltily. "I... hate tomatoes."

I rolled an eye. "No, I wouldn't have guessed. But why are you throwing them away? Allergic?"

He shook his head. "No, I just hate them."

I looked at him confused. "But they're delicious."

"Maybe they are, but I wouldn't know."

"Then how do you know you hate them?" I asked as I scooped them off his plate and placed it in mine. "What?" I said when he arched a brow at my thievery. "You weren't gonna eat them, right?"

He held up a hand in surrender. "I had a pretty bad experience with one when I was five."

"How can you have a bad experience with tomatoes? Skunk attack then tomato bath?"

He shook his head. "I wish. We went to an awareness thing they were having at the park and this big guy wearing a tomato costume slipped on a banana peel and rolled towards me. I screamed but then he landed right on me and stayed there for like.. twenty seconds before anyone could get him off me."

"And thus your aversion?" I arched, holding back laughter as I tried to picture a five year old Dylan trapped under a huge tomato.

"And thus my aversion," he answered before biting into his tomato free Double Decker beef burger. "Oh come one. Let it out. I know you want to laugh."

I shook my head before lying, "No, I don't!"

"You're picturing a tiny me under a huge tomato, aren't you?" He arched a brow, a smile on his lips.

I looked at him guiltily, before nodding. "How can I not?"

"The funny thing is, I told you."

"What do you mean?"

"I've never told anyone. My family tell the tale with a few exaggerated details of course. But they're the ones who tell it. Never me. When people ask, I just say it's just that they're too soft." He smiled. "You're stealing all my secrets, Hunt!"

I smile halfheartedly. Happy that he privileged me with the information yet curious as to why he did.

We ran lines after that. He just read through the script once before he knew the lines by heart.

It was 2:45 when we finished from lunch.

"We've still got a few hours before we need to go back. Want to go to the mall?" He asked as we got into his car.

I nodded. "What are we going to do there?"

"Grab you that phone I owe you and maybe catch a movie." He started the car.

I nodded as I leaned back into the plush leather seat.

"Oh, and Alex," he began. "We're going to the latest models section and grabbing you a phone from there. Or you'll get a replay of the last time."

Then he winked.

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