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He tilted his head,his neck flex and ripple "No bullshit?"

My chest tightened in a way I knew had nothing to do with the workout I’d just had "No bullshit"

He moved closer, until only a couple of feet separated us, until I could i out how a saltwater kiss tasted He took a deep breath, like he was trying to decide howaround you I can’t explain it any better than that"

As much as I wanted to analyze that comment, decipher what he meant, the immediate fear that slid into aa ti, right? That pause is everything

"Right" I silenced the joyful thirteen-year-old girl as dancing around in my stomach with the reo "I’d like to be friends," I admitted But no further No deeper No chance for hihme up the ladder onto the save ain--the one that felt like it was only for me--and those damn butterflies were back Why did he have to have such different sides to him?

Wilder I could shut out He was a poet me hurt in more ways than one

But Paxton? Yeah I was defenseless against hierous

Chapter Six

Leah

At Sea

I glanced at the door as Dr Westwick droned on about the principals of inertia Physics had to be theclass I’d ever taken, and honestly, I didn’t care when the ball I’d rolled would stop rolling

Unless that rolling ball would explain to ht days, and he had already ion, and now all of our Physics How the hell was I supposed to keep his grades up if he didn’t come to class?

My eyes drifted to the here the waves of the Atlantic were currently affecting the pitch of my stomach