“Me, either,” I admitted. “I don’t think I could sleep yet.”
Anna didn’t answer, and I could practically feel the disapproval radiating off her. She didn’t think I should stay. Hell, she hadn’t thought I should come over in the first place.
My gaze met Lila’s, and I could see that she was thinking the same thing. Anna didn’t want us to keep hanging out, and though Lila might usually take that into consideration, she was second-guessing her friend right now.
I lifted one eyebrow, and her lips twitched in response.
Oh yeah, we were thinking the exact same thing.
“If Anna wants to go to bed, you could always come to my room and have another drink.”
Her eyebrows lifted to match mine, and she tried to get serious. “But what if you kidnap me?”
I leaned toward her and breathed in her sunshine and floral scent. “I swear I’m not going to kidnap you.”
Despite the fact that you being here is a way for my agent to threaten me, I didn’t add.
I barely even thought it. I was too wrapped up in Lila Potter.
She tipped forward toward me, and for one crazy moment I thought she was going to kiss me. She stopped just short of doing so, though, glanced down at my lips, and then said, “In that case, Rivers Shine, you’ve got a deal.”
5
LILA
This. Was. Insane.
I was walking out of my room in a hotel in Bardstown, drunk and barely able to stand up on my own, and I’d left my best friend glowering behind me. It had to be past midnight, and we were on the road with Olivia Johns and Connor Wheating. We were here to try to win a contract.
And instead of focusing on that or our game plan, I was following a guy back to his room, my hand caught in the much larger fingers of Rivers Shine.
I couldn’t stop singing that new song about being love drunk in my head.
Like I said, insane. Completely, utterly crazy.
And yet…
I wasn’t exactly turning around and running back to my room, where I was sure Anna was up and waiting for me.
I stifled a smile at the thought and looked up just in time to see Rivers turning to me, the corner of his mouth caught up in a shy smile as he looked from me to the door I’d just closed.
“I don’t think your friend’s very happy with me.”
I half-glanced back at the door as well, then shrugged. “She doesn’t not like you. She’s just spent her whole life trying to take care of me and keep me out of trouble. She doesn’t like it when she fails.”
When I turned back around, he was a whole lot closer. Close enough that I could feel the heat coming off him. Smell the deep, musky scent of his cologne. Funny, I hadn’t noticed that before, but now it was all I could smell. It engulfed me, his warmth wrapping around me like some sort of blanket, and when I looked up to meet his eyes…
God, this wasn’t just an insane idea, it was a bad idea with a capital B. A Very Bad Idea. Worse than insane.
I must have lost my fucking mind.
I was standing in a dimly lit hotel hallway in the middle of Kentucky with Rivers Shine, and he was looking at me like he wanted to kiss me. Or dip me in chocolate and eat me.
Fuck, maybe hewasgoing to kidnap me.
“What?” I asked, frustrated when my voice came out as nothing more than a breath.
He shook his head like he’d just realized what he was doing and gave me a crooked grin. “Nothing. Just wondering if you’re suddenly going to regret coming out with me and run back to Anna.”
