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“Johnny?” I called after him, unable to stop myself.
When he stopped running and turned back to face me, I hurried to close the space between us, not stopping until I was right in front of him.
“What’s wrong?” he asked, frowning down at me in confusion.
“Nothing, I just—” Shaking my head, I reached up and cupped his neck, pulling his face down to mine. Pressing up on my tiptoes, I whispered in his ear, “I need you to stay safe out there, okay?” Resisting the urge to fold myself into him, I released his neck and stepped back. “Be careful.” I took another step back, eyes locked on his. “Okay?”
Johnny nodded slowly, blue eyes heated. “Okay.”
“Bye, Johnny,” I whispered and then turned around.
Johnny caught my hand and pulled me back to face him.
“You’ll come home with me tonight?” he asked gruffly, eyes burning with heat, as he fiddled with that rogue strand of hair of mine. “You still want to do that?”
“Yeah,” I whispered, stepping closer, unable to resist the urge to knot my fingers in his shirt. “I do.”
“Shannon, I’m so…” He exhaled a sharp breath and shook his head. “Tonight.” His hand moved from my hair to cup my cheek. “We’ll talk tonight.”
“Okay, Johnny,” I breathed, leaning my cheek into his large palm.
Without another word, he leaned down and pressed a lingering kiss to my forehead. And then he turned around and walked away.
Reeling, I watched him until he disappeared into the clubhouse, and then I walked back to my friends.
Confused was an understatement for how I was feeling.
The sheer depth of my feelings for him was unhealthy. The adoration, the lust, the downright infatuation I had for him…it was insanity.
I had never felt this much. I had never felt so consumed.
60Cupid’s Choke Hold
JOHNNY
If feelings were objects, then I was teetering on the edge of a great precipice, and if girls were weapons, then Shannon Lynch was the greatest weapon of mass destruction my heart had ever been exposed to.
Because I was fucked.
I didn’t bother denying it anymore. There was no point. I had never felt this much for another person in my entire life.
It took every ounce of self-control I had inside of my body to walk away from her back there. Especially when everything inside of me demanded I snatch her away from the world and keep her all to myself.
“I need you to stay safe out there, okay?”
Yeah, at this stage, it was safe to say I was thoroughly fucked when it came to that girl.
I couldn’t do this anymore. I couldn’t fight my feelings.
Just like with that game on the PlayStation, she was kicking my ass. When she told me about the bullying, something I regrettably already knew, I felt something snap inside of me. It felt the last piece of my resolve evaporating.
The vulnerability I had seen in her eyes when she exposed her secrets for my benefit was my breaking point.
Girls I knew didn’t do that. They didn’t act like Shannon.
If Gibsie hadn’t come over, I would have kissed her. I knew I would have. I already knew what those lips felt like. I wanted so badly to taste them again. I would taste them again.
I was starving for her and everything she was. Every part of her. Inside and out.
