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He smiled as he looked at the dessert, then to me. His smile slowly faded and those eyes of his grew darker as he stared at my mouth. Wes took a step closer, and everything inside of me screamed to turn away from him, but I couldn’t. I was frozen in place. My heartbeat started to pound in my ears, and my breath grew faster.
“You’ve got a little cheesecake there on the side or your mouth.”
My tongue darted out at the same time his finger moved to swipe it away. We both drew in a breath at the contact, and before I knew what was happening, Wes was in front of me. A wicked smile on his face as he leaned down and whispered, “Let me get that for you.”
His tongue darted out and licked at the corner of my mouth as I reached for the island to hold myself up. Wes slid his arm around my waist, pulled me to him, and covered my mouthwith his. I instantly melted against his body and moaned when I could taste the cheesecake on his tongue. It was like a second round of dessert—but only better.
Wes’s other hand went to the back of my neck where he held me in place as he deepened the kiss.
What in the hell are we doing? Someone’s going to walk in and see us kissing.
Ignoring the inner battle in my head, I placed my hand on his chest and my brain told me to push him away, but my heart won out, instead. I held onto him as if he was a lifeline that I needed to stay afloat in the storm of emotions.
Wes walked us back until I hit the counter, and for a second, I thought for sure he was going to pick me up and set me down on it. Before either of us could do anything, a voice cleared from the other side of the kitchen and we both froze.
Slowly drawing away from me, Wes and I opened our eyes and locked our shocked gazes. Both of us looking at each other as if asking what in the hell had just happened. I could see Wes was as confused as I was. That kiss had been so different from the others. We had both wanted it, but for the same reasons? There was no time to think about what the kiss meant, because what was about to happen next was going to change everything.
“Oh. My. God.” Angie gasped.
“How long has this been going on between the two of you?” Wes’s mom asked in a completely shocked voice.
Wes closed his eyes and dropped his head slightly in response to his mother’s question.
My teeth instantly dug into my still-tingling lip as I gently pushed Wes back and he turned around, giving us both the opportunity to see that it wasn’t just Angie and Jennifer standing there, but Finn, Rory, and Harmony. Rory and Angie were the only two grinning, as if something they had already known about had suddenly become news to everyone else.
“You two?” Finn asked, pointing between the two of us. Then he slowly nodded his head and laughed. “No wonder you were pissed and got so drunk when I said we were trying to set Clare up with Alex.”
“What?” I asked, confusion in my voice as I looked at Wes, who refused to look at me.
“I knew you guys were hanging out more, but this? How could you not tell me, Clare?” Rory asked, her smile now gone and her arms folded over her chest, staring at me like I had been keeping the biggest secret in the world from her.
I was about to come up with some excuse about why we were kissing when Wes took my hand in his. He cleared his throat, and I knew he was about to do something he’d regret. We’d both regret.
“We’ve been keeping it a secret.”
“Why?” Jennifer asked. “My goodness, Wes, I’ve been trying to set you up with girls to date, and poor Clare has had to watch it. You’ve made a fool out of me.”
“What?” Wes and I said at the same time.
“No! No, it’s not like that at all, Mrs. Ward,” I quickly said.
“We just started dating recently. We’ve been spending more time together, the shopping trip for the anniversary decorations, the drive home that night, me getting sick and Clare staying with me. We like spending time together,” Wes said, reaching out for my hand and tugging me to stand next to him. “And we have slowly been exploring things.”
Angie laughed. “Well, judging by the way you two were kissing, I’d say things are going well.”
I let out a bubble of nervous laughter, then quickly covered my mouth with my hand. I could feel my face turning redder by the second.
Finn’s eyes bounced between me and Wes, and I couldn’ttell, but I swore he was attempting to figure out if we were lying or telling the truth.
“Who ate almost all of the cheesecake?” Harmony cried out.
“Wes!” I replied as he whipped his head and stared at me as if I had just hung him out to dry. All I could do was shrug.
“We both ate it,” Wes stated as he walked back over to the table, picked up the fork, and ate another piece. My mouth watered, but not because I wanted a bite. Oh no, it was because I was instantly jealous of the freaking fork in his mouth.
“Wes! Clare! I bought that for a luncheon I’m having tomorrow.”
“We thought it might have been an extra dessert,” I weakly added.
