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Miles stared at , and then…

He laughed

He actually laughed

A full-blown laugh Coainst his stomach, and… a smile

A wide, bright, glorious flipping smile that made my stomach do somersaults

I stared at him, lips parted, unable to move

“What?” His laughter petered out into a small chuckle, but his s at me like that?”

“You’ve never laughed at me before” I licked my lips “And you’ve never smiled at me, either”

He frowned “I’ve smiled at you”

I shook my head emphatically “No, you haven’t Never Even when you have been nice to me, you’ve never sot out of the car!”

“I smile!”

“Not at er into his chest, then froze

What was I doing?

Oh, osh

That was a silly, silly thing to do

Darn it, Gabriella!

Miles looked down athis hand around ainst oosebu up my arm

My osh What was happening here?

I ue across my teeth in a desperate atteood Instead, I bit down onthat worked surprisingly well

For me

What it also did was draw Miles’ attention to my mouth

His gaze dropped to ether I had to resist the urge to lick the of my heart drewat my lips

Maybe

Kind of

Not at all, actually

It was the whole reason ainst my ribs

“I saze back up to meet mine “Just because you’ve never seen it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen”

What did that mean?

“What do—”

“Gabriella!” The sound of Aunt Cat’s voice interrupted one

We jerked apart as if ere doing so

Just in ti open, and Aunt Cat appeared She looked us both over like ere intruders

“What are you doing out here?” Her eyes flicked between us again “A?”