Page 53 of A Little Bit Reckless
I didn’t care.
I grabbed Wells’s shirt and put everything into it. A wave of ocean breeze hit me, and I drank it in.
I absorbed it.
I let myself get sucked up in Wells’s aura, and it didn’t matter that he failed to kiss me back. He wasn’t moving, and his body was locked up tight. His heart beat hard against my hands but at least he wasn’t punching Bru. He wasn’t hurting him anymore, and that was why I kissed him.
My eyes closed as I forgot about my reason, and suddenly, Wells Ambrose wasn’t Wells anymore, but Archer. He wasmyArcher.
Wells wasn’t kissing me, but he also wasn’t stopping me. He was letting it happen, just frozen, and I was taken back to the last time his lips touched mine. It had been when things changed atthe pool that summer. It was the day he went from my friend and protector to something else.
It was the day Wells Ambrose became my enemy.
Wells gripped my arms. He was alsoshaking.His big hands dug into my arms so hard I thought he’d cut off the circulation.
Apparently, I didn’t care about that, and I might have let the kiss go on longer had I not noticed Bru. I opened my eyes to see him standing off to the side. His head was down, his dark eyes on the floor. He wasn’t watching the kiss.
It was like he couldn’t.
The seal between my mouth and Wells’s broke then. Wells released a breath like he’d been holding it, and I realized I hadn’t been breathing either. I stopped breathing when I kissed him. I stoppedthinking.I just wanted him to stop hurting Bru and did the first thing I could think of.
“What the fuck,” Wells started to say, but I couldn’t react to that. He’d probably rage out and get angry at me. I was definitely going to pay for what I did, but I tucked that in the back of my mind.
I made myself be brave.
I approached Bru, and he blinked. He had a bruise on his face and a cut lip I felt terrible about. I touched it.
Bru’s mouth parted. “Bow?—”
I kissed him silent, and his eyes flashed wider than Wells’s had. He hadn’t expected this. Heck,Ihadn’t expected me to do this.
Why am I doing this?
The why was forgotten as my mouth molded against his, and, where Wells didn’t kiss me back, Bru didn’t hesitate. In fact, he got a fistful of my skirt and hiked me up his hard body.
He even groaned.
Bru’s tongue touched mine, and I dizzied just like I had on the quad. He approached me about what I’d seen go on betweenhim and Wells. He addressedwhat I did. He saw me touch myself, and it didn’t seem like that bothered him. He even asked if what I saw bothered me, like it mattered to him. Like he didn’t want me to be bothered.
I didn’t know what was happening now. I just knew I didn’t like the look Bru had when he saw me kiss Wells. I didn’t want him to wonder about us, how I felt about him.
“Dude, what the actual fuck.” Wells grabbed Bru, and our mouths broke away from each other. Wells shoved Bru, and Bru let go of me. Bru willingly moved, I think because he was still thrown about our kiss. Bru had a look of bewilderment in his dark eyes, but anger replaced it when he looked at Wells.
Bru shoved Wells back. “Bro, what the hell is your deal?”
“No, fucker. What the hell isyourdeal?” Wells gritted. His green eyes were wild, crazy. He held a similar look when I came into the house, and I’d also seen him with the same expression on the quad. He’d fought Bru twice now and both times sounded like they were about me.
Which didn’t make sense.
I heard all the things Wells had been saying to Bru before I intervened. It sounded like Wells believed Bru was the one I lost my virginity to, but it wasn’t him.
I wished it was him.
If it was him, things would have been different. If it was him,Iwould be different.
So many things would be different.
I couldn’t think about that as I watched Wells approach Bru again, and my stomach flipped. Wells had his fist raised, and I didn’t get that. Wells growled. “I knew this shit was true. She’sThatcher’s sister, bro. The fuck’s wrong with you? You call yourself his friend, and you’re going behind his back with his little sister? Not to mention kissing her right now. Really?”
