Page 11 of One Little Kiss
“No idea, but whatever drug it is, I want some.”
He snickers and winks at me, showing off his lopsided grin. “So?” He nudges my shoulder. “What’d I miss?”
I shrug. “Addie didn’t get a chance to say much. And before that, you missed Celia trying to set you up with the new girl.”
Elijah straightens and looks around. “Dominic’s sister?”
“I’m pretty sure Dominic would kill you if you tried to go for his sister.”
Elijah turns to face me with puppy dog eyes. “What do you mean?”
I give a snort of laughter at the fake innocent routine and he grins. He knows exactly what his reputation is, and he loves it.
“She was talking about Sadie.” I nod toward the back.
Elijah half turns. “Oh yeah. She’s hot.”
I glance back too. Her head’s still buried in a book. My brows furrow as I turn over his comment. “Is she?”
“Yeah, she’s cute.”
“Is she hot or is she cute?” I sound annoyingly peevish and I don’t even know why.
He arches a brow and I look away, but not quickly enough.
“What’s with you?” he asks.
I shrug. “Nothing.”
And it is nothing. I definitely shouldn’t be stewing over what he’d said the other day, hinting that I don’t deserve to win the scavenger hunt.
But I can’t help it. Ever since then, I’m annoyingly irritated when I’m around him. Like, some part of me wants to call him out on what he said—and what he didn’t say. But also, I really don’t want to go there.
So instead, I’m just kinda…irritated. And I’m not doing a great job of hiding it, that much is clear.
I probably should’ve just called him out on it and asked him what he’d meant when I’d gone to his place for movie night. But there’d never been a good time and now too much time has passed and…
And now I should just let it drop.
Which is what I’m trying to do, except Elijah chooses that exact moment to bring up the stupid scavenger hunt topic all over again.
“Leah and I came up with some new challenges,” he says, obviously pleased with himself and just waiting for me to beg him for details.
As if.
Three grand is nothing to sneeze at, but he’s right about the fact that I’m not really in it for the money. It’s hard to get too excited about splurging on new clothes when I know very well that Mara actually needs the money.
I already know that if by some chance I do win, I’m gonna give it to her. She deserves it.
So why am I even playing?
I don’t know.
But all I do know is that I want to win now more than ever. So after bouncing my knee for a while, pretending I don’t notice Elijah smirking at me out of the corner of my eye, I give in with a sigh.
“Okay, fine, what are the new challenges?”
A wide grin takes over his whole face.
