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“Selena, truth or dare?” I said immediately.
She smirked. “Dare, darling. There’s nothing I won’t do.”
Marcus caught my eye across the circle, subtly tilting his head toward Selena.
“Kiss Marcus for ten seconds.” There, that was a classic dare, or so I thought.
Marcus flashed me a sly thumbs-up. Selena seemed annoyed for a second, no doubt feeling that kissing another guy was a wrench in her plan to get with Cayden, but plastered on a smile.
“Okay, that’s a dare I can do.”
She got down on all fours and crawled across the circle. She moved with exaggerated sexiness, slinking like a big cat parody, and several team players laughed. She reached Marcus and shot a glance at Cayden. He was staring at his phone and ignoring the entire thing.
When she got close enough, stretching it out for attention, she stopped in front of Marcus. He grinned and shocked her by reaching out and grabbing her long ponytail, wrapping it like a rope around his fist.
“Stop fucking around. I’m waiting.” He yanked her head to his and kissed her hard.
She nearly fell over, her hands scrambling for purchase on his legs. He kissed her ruthlessly, and I couldn’t look away. Everyone watched, stunned, as they made out with reckless abandon for a whole ten seconds.
Right on time, Marcus pulled back and dropped her hair so suddenly, she nearly fell. Selena panted, her eyes unfocused, her lips red and puffy.
She looked like she was ready for round two, but Marcus’ cold laugh froze her in place.
“Man, that’s what all the hype was about? What a disappointment,” he said and smirked as he settled back and nodded across the circle. “Don’t get your panties in a twist and stop holding up the game.”
His dismissive words sent Selena spinning around and plopping down in her space. She breathed hard, and embarrassment stained her cheeks. I didn’t like to see any girl humiliated by any of the Ice Gods, but there was something satisfying about seeing Selena knocked down a peg, considering how often she’d laid into me.
“Whatever. It’s my turn?” She shot glittering eyes to me. “Lily, truth or dare.”
“I’ve already gone!”
“Let someone else have a go,” Eve protested.
“No. It’s my choice, and I choose Bug.” Selena raised her chin mulishly.
I fought an internal sigh. “Okay, whatever. I choose dare.”
She smiled, and her gaze traveled over to Cayden. She was obviously pissed I’d made her kiss another guy in front of her crush, and that he’d gone and embarrassed her as well.
“Kiss Josh–full make-out–thirty seconds.”
I jerked, surprised by her words. My eyes met Cayden’s. His were carefully blank, but there was darkness lurking there that I couldn’t examine too closely. That way lay madness.
Josh elbowed me gently. “You don’t have to if you don’t want to.”
“Yes, she does! You can’t just keep changing the rules for her,” Selena protested hotly.
“It’s fine, whatever.” I twisted to the side to face Josh. “Let’s just kiss.”
He swallowed hard, his expression turning serious and a little nervous. “You won’t tell Coach about this, right?”
I rolled my eyes. “Of course not.”
He nodded with relief and leaned in. “Good. Okay, here I go,” he muttered.
His breath was minty and not unpleasant. His lips passed over mine a couple of times before they pressed more firmly against my mouth.
It wasn’t a bad kiss. It felt just like shaking hands. It was impersonal and tepid. Absolutely nothing happened inside me at the touch of Josh’s lips. Nothing like what had happened when Cayden touched me. Until this very moment, my second-ever kiss, I’d had no idea that the way I’d felt inside when Cayden had kissed me wasn’t normal. It wasn’t even close to normal, I realized, as Josh kissed me lightly. I wasn’t lost. I wasn’t hot. I didn’t want to sway into him. My body was as unresponsive as a dead fish.
