Page 85 of Fear of Intimacy

“Can you stop flirting with my fiancée?” Wyatt grumbled, stepping behind Josie to wrap his arms around her waist.

“Oh shit.” Mateo looked between the two of them with wide eyes. “You finally did it, baby bro!”

A deep chuckle sounded by my ear, and I instantly knew who it was, the swirl of Trevor’s cologne filling my nose. He leaned against the cabinets next to me, his arm grazing mine. I hadn’t even noticed he had moved across the kitchen toward me.

“I’m older than you, dimwit,” Wyatt shot back.

“Well, you see, I would have put a ring on Josie’s finger way before now, so I think I am, in fact, more mature than you.”

“You can’t even grow a beard,” Wyatt deadpanned.

Mateo let out a fake gasp. “Hey, I can! You see this?” He stuck out his chin and pointed. “Hair.” Both Josie and Wyatt leaned forward to see.

“I see nothing.” Wyatt shrugged.

Mateo pouted, looking directly at Josie. “Jo, he’s being mean.” The kid should have gone into acting as he fake-worried his bottom lip and pretended to swipe away a tear that definitely hadn’t fallen onto his cheek.

“It’s okay, I see hair, Matty.” When Josie pulled him into a hug, I watched as Mateo sent his brother a smirk.

“It’s like he wants his ass kicked,” I muttered to Trevor. Hechuckled beside me, the sound wrapping around my body like a blanket.

I quietly watched as Mateo showed Landon his nonexistent beard. I felt fingers nudge mine, making me glance to the side. Gesturing with his head, Trevor motioned toward the doorway leading out of the kitchen. Once he slipped through, I looked back to make sure everyone else was occupied.

Mateo was busy looking at Josie’s ring with Wyatt, and Landon was looking at his phone. Slipping out unnoticed, I quickly followed after Trevor, reaching out to grab his hand. Feeling like a kid sneaking around, I clamped down on the laughter bubbling in my chest.

Trevor glanced around before grabbing the door handle of some random room and shoved the two of us through. I stumbled in as he hurried to shut the door behind us. Out of every room, he chose the bathroom.

“Hey.” I greeted.

Trevor turned me to face him, his hands on my waist. I rose up onto my toes and wrapped my arms around his neck, bringing us closer. “Hey. How was coffee with Josie?”

I smiled at the way he always asked about my day, even if we were only apart for a few hours. “It was nice getting the chance to hangout, just two of us.”

“Good.” His hands slid under my sweater, softly caressing my bare skin before he lifted me up to sit on the edge of the bathroom counter. “You have no idea how hard it was not to kiss you when you walked in,” Trevor whispered. His eyes darted from my lips to my eyes.

My fingers played with the hair at the nape of his neck as I looked at him. He had no idea how bad I wanted to kiss him too.

He dipped his head, bringing our lips that much closer but not touching. The need to kiss him grew by the second. Ididn’t even care that we were hiding in the spare bathroom with our friends just around the corner.

“Kiss—” I didn’t get to finish my sentence before his lips were on mine.Finally.

I wrapped my arms tighter around his neck, pressing my front to his. His lips were meant for mine. Every time we kissed, my body came to life like a flame. Like he woke up some part of me that I didn’t know existed.

I moaned softly in his mouth as he stepped between my parted legs. The rational part of my brain knew we couldn’t do that here, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t tease him a little. Especially not when Trevor groaned against my mouth, tugging my hips even closer to his. God, I’d never tire of how vocal he was when we kissed and did other things.

We were too lost in what we were doing to hear the bathroom door open. Wasn’t until the person said something that the two of us sprung apart. “What the fuck?!”

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TASHA

Our heads snapped to the side. Mateo stood in the doorway with wide eyes as he glanced at Trevor and me. The three of us just stared at one another without saying a word.

“You do realize there are germs in here, right?” Mateo said, breaking the silence. If I wasn’t so caught off guard, I would have laughed.

I looked over at Trevor, unsure of what to say. Having a secret relationship with each other was now blown.

“Well, this is awkward.” Mateo rolled back and forth on the balls of his feet. “I think I’m just gonna…” He pointed over his shoulder, giving us a tiny smirk before shutting the door.

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