Page 168 of Forgotten Prejudice

“Yeah. Sucks, doesn’t it?”

“Kai.”

“What?” He shrugged. “It truly does suck. All that hard work for him to just run away.”

He then glanced at me, his brows narrowed while he studied me. My nerves kicked in, and my throat dried with fear that he might know—

“You’re all sweaty, Ashy. How about taking that shower now?” he offered, his lips stretching into a big smile.

Letting out a breath of relief, I chuckled awkwardly. “Y-Yeah.”

Kai moved to pull me back toward the house when he stopped and turned to face Soren. “I sure hope that car is insured since Jess is not the best driver.”

“Don’t worry,” Soren answered coldly, not looking our way.

Shit. I felt like crap, as I should have. Soren’s cum was literally still inside me while Kai was all over me. What the fuck was I doing? I’d held back all this time just to fuck it up in one day? Soren had a point about me loving drama.

“And how about next Friday for that dinner I promised you?” Kai asked, snapping my attention back.

“You were serious about that?” I frowned at Kai’s words, who nodded.

“Of course I was. After all, it’s the least I could do for Soren after all the kindness he showered us with.” He turned his eyes to me. “Don’t you agree, Ashy?”

I hesitated before nodding. “Y-Yeah, of course.”

Once again, Kai’s lips stretched into a big smile, only his smile was cold as ice, and I was filled with sudden worry.

Ash

“It’s unfair to kiss me the way you did and then not answer my calls for days,” Soren said over the phone, his voice rough, almost like he’d just woken up from a deep sleep.

My stomach flipped with his sexy drawl, and I turned around to face the ocean. I was busy washing my board after I’d been surfing when my phone rang. At first, I wanted to ignore Soren’s call like I had for the past week but then decided not to.

“I know… I’m sorry.” I moved my hand through my wet hair and bit my lip. “I didn’t plan to ignore you. I’m just—”

“Confused?”

I snorted. “To say the least.”

“Then I’m assuming my calling to let you know how much I miss you won’t help.”

My heart skipped a beat, and I placed my hand on my chest, right where it felt warm and fuzzy. This feeling brought me back to when we had just started dating, to how each call or text he sent me filled my stomach with butterflies. I was thirty-two, and yet, hearing his voice through the phone still brought those same damn butterflies.

“Definitely not,” I chuckled, eyes pinned on the spreading ocean and pink-washed sky. The sun would go down soon.

“At least I’ll see you on Friday.”

He was talking about Kai’s dinner.

“Yeah… about that. You can still cancel.”

“Why would I turn down such an invitation? I’ve heard he’s quite the cook.”

I rolled my eyes. “There are moments I think you’ve changed, but then you say something like that, and I remember what a sarcastic jerk you are.”

Soren laughed, his voice so damn sexy. “Eiv used to tell me the same thing, only he used the term sarcastic bitch. His words, not mine.”

The mention of Eiv brought an unpleasant feeling to my gut, and I clenched my phone a bit harder. “Do… Do you still sleep with him?”