I was not used to people getting my references. I usually had to explain the joke or the point I was making. I had become accustomed to laughing on my own at my jokes and nerdy comments.

I peered down at the floor and smiled at how Stone had gotten my reference.

Lana appeared hesitant to leave. She looked between Stone and I and she remained standing beside me.

"Go." I insisted her while I took a step towards the large man "Stone and I will not kill each other. Well, not today anyway."

She did not look convinced.

I sighed before reaching out and tugging at the bottom of Stone's leather jacket "Come along, Lurch."

Stone instantly followed me through to the living room as I skipped ahead.

As I walked on further, I noticed how near he was lingering behind me. His body trailed so closely that I feared again if I stopped suddenly, he would run into me and flatten my body in the process.

My back slumped against the sofa as I let myself fall back onto the pillow. The material under me then moved as Stone sat right next to me.

There was a whole other empty sofa in the room, yet he had sat next to me so that the whole of the side of my body met his. My head was close to resting against his elbow.

If I moved a single centimetre then I would have been sitting on him.

I was about to ask about the proximity, but I was interrupted by my phone buzzing against my chest.

I fetched the phone out of my bra before checking what had made it buzz.

Stone's eyes darkened when he saw what it was.

A notification from a dating site lit up my phone.

The colossal sized body remained motionless which contrasted with the emotions swirling about in his black eyes. He looked completely and utterly furious and bloodthirsty as I opened the app.

His gaze darted between my face and my phone while his eyes darkened further until he appeared even more unhinged.

Tapping around on the date site, I ignored the manic and crazed expression he held as he clenched his jaw.

He was always angry, so I thought nothing of his current attitude.

"I don't actually meet up with anyone." I spoke to fill the silence "I just like to bring arrogant guys down a peg or two. I like hitting them with an awesome comeback to their pickup lines. It is quite therapeutic."

His mood did not lighten.

The round wide shoulders remained tensed, and his jaw was ticking furiously while he watched me.

"This guy wrote Haven't I seen you someplace before?" I read an example off my phone screen "So I wrote back Yeah, that is why I don't go there anymore."

A carnivorous grumble left the large chest.

I ignored the noise "He is probably crying in a corner right now."