Page 314 of Forbidden Billionaires: Vol. 11
“I’m so so sorry.”
“It’s fine,” he said. He exhaled slowly. “I’m good.”
“Good.”
His hands settled on my waist.
I was straddling Jacob in his car. Right outside his house. I turned to look out the window again, but he put one of his hands on the side of my face to stop me.
“Don’t think about anyone else. Just think about us.”
I nodded and stared into his brown eyes. Jacob was my boyfriend. My first ever boyfriend. And I was going to make this kiss way better than our last one.
“Now let’s try this again.” His hand shifted backward and his fingers tangled in my hair.
I swallowed hard as I breathed in his exhales. I was focused on him. In this moment.
I leaned forward as he tilted my face up toward his.
And our teeth somehow slammed together instead of our lips. I tried to fix it by plopping my lips on his and I somehow managed to honk the horn behind me.
He laughed against my lips.
“Jacob, stop laughing at me!”
“Why do you keep kissing me like that?”
“Like what?”
“Like you don’t know how. I know that you know how. I’ve seen you kiss countless people during the last week.”
I knew my face was red. God, the kissing booth and the bonfire party. I was never going to live those down. “They were mostly pecks.”
He laughed.
“I know how to kiss, Jacob!” I grabbed both sides of his face and planted my lips on his.
But he was still laughing. And for some reason, me kissing him just made him laugh harder.
I pulled back and stared at him. I wanted to be angry. But seeing the huge grin on his face made me laugh too. The stress of it being all wrong disappeared when we were both laughing.
His fingers found my cheek again. “You are so beautiful. And I really thought I wanted this. But kissing you is so weird.”
I groaned and dropped my head on his shoulder. “Stop it.”
His hands dropped back down to my waist. “I think maybe we’re just too good of friends.”
I groaned again. This was even more mortifying than Sophie offering to pay guys to kiss me at the kissing booth.
“Scarlett, look at me.”
I reluctantly lifted my head from his shoulder. “I don’t understand. Everything is fine when we’re just hanging out. But I feel this tension between us right now. We just need to keep practicing.”
“I’m not sure that’s how it’s supposed to work.”
I sighed. Yeah. He was probably right about that. “But you said you’ve had a crush on me for forever.”
“I do. I...did.”
