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Over e written all over your face
Boring
We stepped out onto the e out here when there was privacy inside to do all kinds of wild and wicked things? The type of things one did at a kink club Things I had yet to learn about Thanks to hiht they knew me so well Resentment simmered beneath et used to the place To find the thing that worked forto accoo" I walked past hi to return upstairs now Not after he dragged et all butt-hurt I’ to help a friend out--"
I stopped and whirled around "Are we friends, Logan? Pepper and your brother are dating That’s all There’s no other connection between us I don’t knohy you feel the need to act all big brother You’re just" I paused, grasping "a kid"
The minute I said it, I wanted to take it back
He didn’t look like a kid Or act like one Especially now
He repositioned hi his feet on the porch of the building He didn’t look mad or offended Worse He looked a Seriously No wonder he had such a reputation Girls must throw themselves at him His mouth was sexy as hell, too His lips ell-defined and wide, the bottos I bet he could do with those lips
I blinked at the totally ard thought
"You think I’m just a kid, huh?" His deep voice rippled over me like ind
I nodded once
He stepped down fro like some kind of predator I backed up
He was just a kid Just akid
Aw, hell My gaze ski? He was so totally not a kid
I tried to look down my nose at him the way I had seenoff with some mouthy delinquent My sister and I called it her "principal look" If she ever used it on us, we kneere in trouble But the effect was lost on him
Yeah, he stood taller than six feet, but it wasn’t that Logan had an air about hihteen-year-old guy He held himself like someone who kneho he was and his place in the world And that annoyed me Why was he so da A deceptive shteen Still in high school" I flung that at him almost like an accusation
"For another couple weeks, yeah" He nodded, absorbing this "What ed the word out "I’ll be nineteen in August My mom held arten" It was hard to i the smallest kid, comparatively, at any point in his life "So we’re twenty, twenty-onefor this to sink in Forto aded one shoulder, for soive him that "Maybe this place isn’t for you Don’t you have a curfew or so that out at hih about his and Reece’s family life to know that he probably never had a curfew Not since his mom died when he was a kid His father was disabled and not exactly a check-the-hohed deeply then, tossing his head back It was a deliberate dig, and instead of getting offended, he laughed It was a hypnotizing sight, the way his throat worked, tendons ht teeth My belly dipped and I knew this hy girls e and dropped their panties for hiusted with oose bumps over my flesh and settled in the pit ofto say, "I’ve never had a curfew"
Never? I shookmyself noas not the time to ood could coht When I went home on break my parents still imposed a curfew on e As if I hadn’t been staying out all hours of the night doing all s Yeah, okay, so I wasn’t But I could be
This reminder of my sheltered existence just made me ht what I set out to do To stop living such a boring existence I enty and I’d been living the last four years like aSex once a week Shit Liar I couldn’t even be honest with myself The last year with Harris weat this incredibly hot guy who had a hell of a lot er only flusteredthat his eyes followed theback to lad that I had styled it so carefully for ht
"I’ll leave Fine For tonight" I started to walk past hied back from the wall of his chest, careful not to touch him I think Reece mentioned his brother played sports It explained the breadth of his shoulders, which tapered down to a lean waist The flat stoliht with Pepper It was criaze flicked over him Okay Great shape He was probably ripped under the black shirt he wore Just like his brother Ridiculous six-pack, defined biceps and all I sed against the sudden thickness of uy still in high school?