Page 115 of Bookworm
"What?" I asked.
"You called me Bo," he said.
Heat crawled up my cheeks. "I did not."
"Yeah," he said, smile widening a bit more at my obvious discomfort. "You did. Called me your boyfriend too."
"Well," I stammered, "you must be hearing things."
"Don't think so."
When Bo just kept giving me that look, I changed the subject.
"You know, I'm still surprised about the book thing," Isaid. "Your grandma's so cool. I love howshe reads books with and without heat."
"No idea what that means," he said.
I blinked. "Heat, Bo. Spice, smut, sexy times. That's what I meant."
His face flushed then. "Ah."
"You didn't know some of the books were like that?"
"Nope."
"The shirtless guys on the covers weren't a clue?"
"I didn't know," Bo gritted out.
I giggled but forced myself to pull it together as heshot me a dark glance. The idea of him checking out books for his grandmawas sweet. But thefact that he was checking out naughty books for his grandma and didn't have a clue?
Priceless.
"It's understandable," I said with a shrug. "How could you know unless you'd read them?"
"Yeah," he said, running a hand down the back of his neck. The motion stilled as his gazelandedback on mine. "But youread them, right?"
"Yeah.Honestly, I thought you were doing it to annoy me, picking these swoony romance titles," I said, thinking of all the times he'd come in, laid down a list, and mademe accompany him to the proper shelves. "Either that or you enjoyed making me blush."
"Definitely the second one," he said.
His words caused a deeper blush to stain my cheeks, and Bo chuckled.
"Also, that wasn't what I meant."
I looked to him in question, and he lifted a brow.
"These books, you read them too," he repeated. "I remember you telling me some of them were your favorites."
"And I remember you saying you'd read them," I put in.
"Oh I'm going to," he said. "Justhad to wait forHalmeonito finish."
I gulped as a new expression appeared on his face, this one decidedly more wicked.
"Gotta see what all that blushing is about."
"That's not necessary."
