Page 313 of Forbidden Billionaires: Vol. 11
“You think?”
I laughed.
He smiled down at me.
“You’re right. It was terrible.” I groaned and put my face in my hand that he hadn’t captured.
He reached out and lowered my hand from my face. “Which is why I think we should try again.”
“You want to try again?”
He nodded.
“Seriously? Because that was...terrible. Your words. And mine.”
“Come with me.” His hand slid down my wrist and he intertwined his fingers with mine. He pulled me back the way we’d come.
“I can’t go back inside,” I said. The kiss was bad enough. But the thought that Aunt Brooklyn and Uncle Matt could have turnedaround and witnessed the awkwardness just made everything worse.
“We’re not going back inside.” He pulled me over to his truck.
Oh thank God.
He unlocked the door and opened it for me.
I climbed in and he closed the door behind me. I watched him run his fingers through his hair as he walked around the front of the truck. He was probably trying to analyze why that had been so weird too.
I’d freaked out because he didn’t kiss like my kiss thief.Crap, my kiss thief.I pulled out my phone to see what my kiss thief had said back to me. But I was momentarily distracted by my reflection in the screen. There was icing on my face. I groaned and quickly wiped the icing off as I clicked on my unread text. I’d texted my kiss thief saying that I had a boyfriend now. And asked him to stop texting me.
He’d responded: “A boyfriend, huh? Does he know you dream about me when you fall asleep every night? I have a feeling he won’t be your boyfriend for long.”
That...that...asshole! My freaking kiss thief ruined everything!
Jacob opened the door.
I slid my phone back into my pocket and tried to ignore the way the kiss thief had left my heart racing. I was just angry. It had nothing to do with the fact that I liked my kiss thief. HadI thought I was falling in love with him earlier today? Sure. But that’s because I thought he was Jacob. Right now I wanted nothing to do with my kiss thief. He could find someone else to torment.
I stared at Jacob as he slid into the driver’s seat.
Yes, I’d freaked out during our kiss because he wasn’t my kiss thief. But what if it was more than that? What if Jacob and I just didn’t fit? I tried to shake the thought away.
I wanted to be his girlfriend. I wanted to wear his varsity jacket to school tomorrow. I wanted him to keep holding my hand between classes. And staring at me in that way he did when we were at lunch. Like he couldn’t keep his eyes off me.
An uncomfortable silence settled around us. I waited for Jacob to put his key in the ignition, but instead he slid his keys into his pocket.
“First off.” He leaned over and opened the glove compartment. He pulled out a tissue and handed it to me. “You have icing on your nose.”
I’d tried to get it all a moment ago, but I must have missed some on my nose. I forced a laugh. “Your fault.” I grabbed the tissue and wiped off the remaining icing.
“Now come here.” Jacob gestured to his side of the car.
Did he seriously want me to climb onto his lap? I glanced toward his house. But no one was staring out the windows or anything. Besides, it was getting darker by the minute. I started to movetoward him, but my knee immediately hit the center console. “Ow.” I unceremoniously landed on his lap way harder than I meant to.
He made a noise like all the air left his lungs.
I looked down and realized that I’d probably hit him in just the wrong spot. “Sorry,” I said.
He winced.
