Page 71 of How to Win the Girl

What in the world is going on?

Is he going to kiss me? Is he going to stand here breathing on me? Is he going to make a move?

Why would he lean in if he wasn’t going to—

Our lips touch, softly at first, as if he were waiting for me to smack him across the face or tell him to stop.

Oh.

Oh shit…

Drew’s hands are on my face. Then caressing their way down my shoulders. My back.

Spine.

His giant palms stop just shy of my ass, pulling me in, our tongues mingling in the most delicious, unexpected, sublime way.

If I weren’t on my tiptoes, my toes might be curling inside my shoes.

Drew ends the kiss first, pulling back, hands around my upper arms.

“Shit,” he curses. “I shouldn’t have done that.”

My fingers are touching my mouth where his lips just were.

“Shouldn’t have?”

“No.” He rakes one of his massive hands through his hair. “I’m sorry.”

Sorry?

He’s sorry?! What the actual…

“Wow. You don’t have to apologize.” Never have I ever had a guy apologize for kissing me. It’s the most annoying thing I’ve ever had the misfortune to hear.

“Listen, Daisy, it’s complicated.”

Complicated? Spoken like a true douchebag.

I laugh.

This guy is like Jekyll and Hyde—one second, he’s asking me on a date, and we’re laughing and having a good time, and the next, he’s apologizing because his lips were on mine?

“Calm down, buddy. It’s not like we were engaged. It was one okay date.”

My chin goes up.

“Okay date?” It doesn’t sound as if he believes me, but that’s his problem, not mine.

“Yeah, so? I said it was just okay, are you happy? No need to apologize.”

“What was justokayabout it? I thought we had a good time.”

I snort, still pissed and insulted. “We went to a bar. It’s not like you were rolling out the red carpet, trying to impress me by being creative.”

Give me a break. We were surrounded by college students, and for the record, “Your ex-girlfriend or girlfriend even made an appearance. I always love when other girls hijack a date. Super fun.”

“I already told you, Shannon isn’t my girlfriend. She got me confused with my brother.”

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