Chapter Fifty One: Do you really want me to?

*Liam*

“Yoo, Pryce! Where the fuck are you?” Ryder's voice thundered, the car speakers resounding with his voice.

“I told you where I was going, didn't I?” I answered with my eyes fixed on the road before me. I then pressed a button on the steering wheel to reduce the volume of the speakers.

“No! I don't actually mean where,” he said, backtracking a little bit. “Why the fuck did you take the car without the driver?”

With a small turn of my wrists on the steering wheel, I navigated a curve and turned onto the highway. “He was wasting my time, man,” I muttered.

There was a brief moment of silence where Ryder breathed in deeply and that was when I knew that his tolerance range for me today was perhaps not that high.

“But. That. Doesn't. Mean. You. Had. Drive. By. Yourself,” he gritted out, punctuating each word.

I lifted my shoulders in a slight shrug even though he couldn't see me. “I think I can manage driving to the hotel without fainting.”

“And that's the fucking point!” he expl