I realized I wasn’t breathing. Then I realized I forgot how.
Luke kept talking. “That’s why I was standin’ close to her, touching her face. She’s got no blood family left and Vance isn’t close to his. They’ve been through a lot and they both want this. I’m happy for them, this is a good thing.”
Ho-ly crap.
Okay. It was official. I was The A-Number-One Dork of All Time.
I told you that you should have talked to him, Good Ava admonished.
Bad Ava was silent.
Good Ava looked around my neck at Bad Ava. Nothing to say?
Bad Ava looked around my neck at Good Ava. Then she put her thumb to her nose and wiggled her fingers at her.
I let out my breath and my eyes slid to the side. “Sorry,” I whispered.
Luke’s thumb slid across my wet cheekbone. “Babe, please look at me.”
It was the “please” that got me and my eyes slid back to his.
“I’m guessin’ that was the drama yesterday, why you needed to get your head together.”
I didn’t answer. I didn’t need to. It was obvious.
“What I want to know is, why you came back to me last night, considerin’ you thought I was in love with Jules.”
I forgot how to breathe again.
Oh… my… God.
I’d given it all away. I didn’t even mean to but I did, I didn’t expect him to find out I thought he was in love with Jules.
Fuckity, f**k, f**k, f**k.
I bucked my h*ps a bit, a tester to see if he was off guard (he wasn’t).
While I did this, his face came closer, his lips came to mine and he said, “That’s what I thought.”
“Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Stop right there.”
Shit! Did I say that aloud? I did.
Hell and damnation.
I was going to have to go with it.
His head came up an inch.
“I didn’t have anywhere else to go,” I told him. “Bad guys were after me, remember?” That wasn’t bad, it was even the truth.
“You could have stayed with Zano,” Luke replied.
Shit, shit, shit.
He was right. I could have.
Why hadn’t I thought of that?