My Soulmates are IDOLS Books 2+3 | 18+ [SoulBond Series]

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The truth was, she was tired and confusingly high, and the moment she'd seen that first bus she'd chased it down like a mad man, boarded it and realised, as the vehicle screeched to a halt at traffic, that it was surrounded by five taxis. Taxis that she could have flagged down and climbed on at the start. Taxis that she could have called but were somehow overbooked in her current location.

It was a bad move because the path to her destination was tight and she had to catch a few buses to reach two hours pass time. All of which she'd later missed along with a few other taxis that were flagged by others better at T-posing.

She reached for her phone, desperately typing in a quick apology to her seven, and a pleading message for them to apologise to MinJae's mom. They didn't reply, in fact, they didn't even read the message and that sent her swiping through the app to catch anxiety-filled glimpses of clues for their possible reaction to her latest mistake.

[7:20 PM] Oliver: Tell us what happened later!

[7:30 PM] Ezra: You're reaching soon right?

[8:05 PM] Hikaru: Our reservation has a time limit; they've just started serving the food!

[8:30 PM] Casper: Where are you? It's getting late.

[8:40 PM] Sieon: You need to show up soon...Baby...

Fuck! It was already 9 at this point, and she was losing her shit.

The flash of MinJae's name on her phone had her heart leaping into her mouth and Amber hastily swiped over the name to answer the call. Okay, fuck that bus. She was going to get that taxi no matter what it took. She raised her arm up as she ran across the curb waving madly at the clutter of metal boxes in a thousand shiny colours.

The odds of any being a taxi in this area were close to zero. She'd spent half an hour here, long enough to know the truth.

"I'm so sorry!" She squeaked flustered and guilty to the bone; the sleep wiped from her eyes like data from a crashing computer. "First, I overslept, then I missed the a few busses. I'm halfway there. I'll take a cab now. When it comes..." she trailed off as she glanced around. Shit, getting a cab would be hard. "I know I should have called a taxi in the first place but—"

"It's okay, my Mom already left, she has a plane to catch." MinJae's voice was low, so damn fucking low that it rumbled out of her phone in an angry biting rasp. Fuck, he was mad as hell. "We packed up some food for you, so just go home."

Fuck!

"I'm sorry Minnie," she whimpered, fingers digging into her arms. "This isn't like me—"

"Do you want us to pick you up?" The snap was undeniable, and she winced, recoiling at the anger. But she deserved that anger and that made her heart shrivel into a ball and cry, feeding the mushrooms she was already growing in her dank, musty, tear-filled heart.

"I-I can get home by bus...It's close enough," she whispered.

"Where are you?"

"Um-A little too close for you to be happy about it." He'd be mad if he knew.

The groan was a disappointing, defeated sigh that made her chew on her lips a little too hard. "Just stay safe, okay? Take your time to come home, I fucking love you." The last bit was an angry snap that she knew he didn't mean as much as he did this morning. In fact, it seemed like he might just want to kill her tonight. And that delicious caramel was now the bitter burn of blackened sugar.

"L-love you too," she whispered as the line cut with a dramatic tongue to teeth cluck. And Amber groaned slamming her head against the pole. She deserved that. She really did. He'd been so happy and excited about it too.