Page 442 of Forbidden Billionaires: Vol. 11
“No. You want a picture. Axel can’t know we were in his room.”
“We can do it right here.” Henley stepped in front of a portion of the wall that was devoid of any decorations.
“We really don’t have time to argue about this,” Sophie said. “Scarlett, kiss him.”
“But...” My voice trailed off as I stared up at Henley. I was so tired of kissing random people to unmask my kiss thief. And itfelt wrong to do it in Axel’s room with Jacob just down the hall. I wasn’t interested in Henley. There was no way he was my kiss thief. It just wasn’t possible.
“For Christ’s sake,” Sophie said. “RJ, please take a picture of me kissing Henley.” She tossed her phone at him.
RJ caught it. “Sure.”
Henley suddenly looked so nervous.
But then I couldn’t tell how he looked, because Sophie grabbed both sides of his face and plopped one on him.
RJ snapped a picture.
“Wow,” Henley said. “Best first kiss ever.”
“You think there’s going to be a second?” Soph asked as she wiped her lips with the back of her hand.
“I mean...if you want. But I just meant that was my first kiss ever.”
Oh. Okay.Well Henley was definitely not my kiss thief then.
Sophie sighed. “Everyone out. Now.”
We all left Axel’s room and Sophie closed the door behind us. She leaned in close as we made our way down the hall. “Even if it wasn’t his first kiss ever, I would have eliminated him from our suspect list. That kiss was sloppy as hell. Why’d he use so muchtongue? That was probably like how you kissed Jacob the first time...”
“I did not use too much tongue.”
Sophie smiled.
I stopped when I reached the end of the hall. Jacob was standing there, staring dead ahead at nothing in particular.
“Lost in thought?” I asked.
“Hm?” He looked down at me.
“Did you seriously have to tell someone I stunk up the bathroom?”
He laughed. “It seemed necessary. Although Aunt Bee did seem concerned about you.”
I cringed. “Great.”
“So...”
I looked up at him. “So?”
“How was the kiss with Henley?”
“I told you I wouldn’t kiss him,” I said.
“Then why does he look so smug?”
“Sophie took one for the team. And apparently it was Henley’s first kiss ever. So he’s officially off the suspect list.” I was down to four. Plus Axel and Mr. Halifax.
“So who’s left on your list?”
