Page 42 of Reckless
“Because you’re committed to believing the worst about me.”
“You don’t make that hard.”
“No but it’s easy to be hard near you.”
Her eyes widened.I drew a breath.
“I’ll keep my flirting to a minimum,” I said.“But we’re going to have to remember we do actually like each other.”
She snorted.
Kelly stared at me so long the shape of her thinking.
Finally she nodded and said, “Remember this is only through graduation weekend.”
I held her gaze.
“No sleeping together.”
My attention snagged on the phrase so hard I almost laughed.
“Agreed,” I said.“For now.”
I kept my face still.
She crossed her arms.“For the duration.”
“You can invite me in your bed, anytime.”
Her mouth flattened, probably because she heard what I’d heard.
“Don’t enjoy this,” she snapped.
“Too late.”
She folded her arms again.“I want rules.”
“Tomorrow,” I said.“We’ll set them tomorrow.”
“Public place.”
“Also fine.”
“And you are not picking me up.”
I looked at her for one beat.“Probably wise.”
“That was not permission to sound smug.”
“I’m not smug.”
She gave me a look so devastatingly cute though she intended it to be hard.
Then she glanced toward her car to get away from negotiating a fake relationship with me beside a hydrangea hedge.
Something moved low and unpleasantly interested in my chest.
“Go,” she said.
