Page 60 of Sincerely, Your Enemy

“It was…”

Hot.

Out of this world.

By far the best kiss I’ve ever had.

“Okay.”

“Okay? Ma’am, I’m going to need you to cut the crap right now. The sexual tension was through the roof that night he kissed you at the party. Now, will you just let me live vicariously through you so I can reminisce about a time when I wasn’t a pregnant whale?”

Dia chokes on her coffee. Meanwhile, I’m laughing so hard I can’t catch my breath.

“You’re not a pregnant whale,” I argue.

“Are you kidding? The Great Wall of China is smaller than me. Now, spill.”

I lift my hands in surrender. “Fine, it was incredible. It was so hot it could’ve melted Antarctica. Happy now?”

“Are you two, like, a thing?” Dia asks.

“I don’t think so. I mean, he did say something that confused me, but I’m sure it didn’t mean anything.”

“What did he say?” the girls ask in unison.

“He said that if I wanted to do this, I had to end it with Aaron. Because he doesn’t share.”

Silence fills the car.

“Call me crazy, but that sounds a hell of a lot like asking you to be exclusive,” Aveena says.

I scoff. “Please. TJ in a relationship? Never going to happen.”

“Okay, but if he wasn’t asking you to date him, he wasdefinitelyasking you to be exclusive fuck buddies,” Aveena adds.

“I don’t want a fuck buddy. I want something serious.”

Dia turns to look at me at a red light. “It’s up to you, but if you want my advice, I say you wait and see where this thing goes. He was obviously jealous if he had to crash your date. Who knows? It could become more in the long run.”

I slouch into my seat, blowing out a breath. This wasn’t supposed to happen. TJ was only supposed to help me get backinto the game in exchange for my tutoring him. A means to an end, that’s all I wanted him to be.

And if there’s one thing I know for a fact, it’s that TJ will never be boyfriend material. He’s only going to mess with my head, and after Theo, I promised myself that I’d never let a man play me like a violin ever again.

And if I have to permanently cut this guy out of my life to protect my heart?

Then that’s what I’ll do.

TJ

This girl has a death wish.

It’s the only thing that might explain why she’s gone radio silent on me…again.

Did I not fucking warn her that ghosting me a second time would be a bad idea?

My guess is she doesn’t take me seriously.

She made that clear when she left my last two messages on read. The first was me asking her when we could have our next lesson. The second was me telling her to come to the game tonight.

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