Page 99 of Off Limits

“These cliffhangers are killing me,” I said when the episode was over.

“Do you want me to ease your suffering?” he asked teasingly.

“No thanks. I actually like being surprised. You keep your spoilers to yourself.”

“They’re not spoilers, they’re projections.”

“They’re spoilers because your predictions are always right.”

He shrugged. “Not my fault things are so predictable.”

“Can I ask you something?” I blurted.

I’d spent the entire episode thinking about what Asa said on cam, and I needed to know the truth.

“Sure.” He shot me a curious look.

“Earlier you said I was your first everything.”

He swallowed, but didn’t otherwise react.

“Is that true?”

He nodded.

“Was I your first kiss?”

He nodded again. “You’re the only guy I’ve kissed.” He let out an embarrassed-sounding laugh. “Hell, if we’re being honest here, you’re the only guy I’ve actually hooked up with, if we’re going by the true definition of hooking up.”

“I’m not sure I understand what you mean,” I said slowly. His confession that I was the only person he’d kissed had thrown me for enough of a loop that I’d probably misheard the rest of what he’d said. He couldn’t mean that I was the only guy he’d slept with, right?

He lifted his gaze to mine. “What do you think I mean?”

“That you’ve never had sex with anyone other than me?” I braced, waiting for him to tell me how wrong I was.

His smile said more than any words ever could.

“I…I don’t know what to say,” I said helplessly.

“What’s there to say? It’s just a fact.” He shrugged and looked away.

“Would this be the wrong time to tell you that you’re the only guy I’ve kissed?”

“Really?” He shot me a quick look.

“Really. I never wanted that with anyone else.”

The corner of his mouth curled up, but I couldn’t tell if it was a smile or a smirk since I could only see his profile.

“Do you remember how I didn’t have any supplies on me that night at our parents, when I helped you babysit?” I asked. Might as well be completely honest since he’d opened up first.

He nodded.

We hadn’t talked about why I’d shown up while he was babysitting, or what happened in my dad’s office, or how I bailed on him right after. Now felt like the right time.

I raked a hand through my hair, pushing the curls back from my face. “That was on purpose.”

He opened his mouth like he was going to say something but closed it a second later.

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