Page 374 of Forbidden Billionaires: Vol. 11
He nodded. “I knew you needed me.”
This was my chance. I did need him. And I really needed him to kiss me right this second. “Axel, I...”
My phone buzzed on my nightstand, cutting me off.
Shit.
Axel slid off of me.
And just like that, the moment was gone.
“Thank you,” I said. “For saving me from the zombies.”
He chuckled. “Anytime, Scarlett.” He eyed my phone. “Is that the boyfriend?”
“You’re acting like you’re not best friends with him.” I grabbed my phone and stared down at my new message. It was from Jacob.
He’d texted: “I hope you slept okay.”
Axel looked at the text over my shoulder. “Interesting.”
I pulled my phone to my chest. I wasn’t sure what Jacob and I had been texting about before that. But it could have revealed everything. “Why do you keep saying everything about my relationship is interesting?”
“Because I find it very interesting.” He got up and stretched.
I watched the way the hem of his shirt lifted slightly above the waistline of his jeans. His arms fell and so did his shirt. I looked back up at him. “But what do you mean by that?”
He shrugged. “I just find it interesting that you never seemed into Jacob. And now the two of you are...what did Soph say? The cutest couple ever?”
“Well, I didn’t know that he liked me. Until he told me.”
Axel just stared at me.
“Did you know? That Jacob had a crush on me since we were kids?”
“No.” Axel grabbed his backpack off the floor. “He never mentioned it.”
“Ever?”
“Nope.”
“You two don’t talk about stuff like that?”
“We do,” Axel said. “Last I heard he had a crush on Olivia. At the beginning of the school year he told me he was going to ask her to homecoming. And then suddenly the two of you were an item instead.”
Seriously...who was this Olivia person? “Oh.”
“Just be careful. I don’t want to see you get hurt.”
Then why do you keep hurting me?
He walked over and lifted up the trapdoor.
“Axel?”
“Yeah?”
“Thanks for staying all night.” Except for the incident this morning, I hadn’t had a single nightmare. And I wondered if it was because his arms had been around me.
