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“Sassing your brother is a crime.”
“We met in middle school too, right?”
He glanced at me, dark eyes assessing. “You remembered?”
“While I was eating pizza.”
“What else did you remember?”
“Ben asked me the same thing,” I pointed out. “Why?”
“We’re nosy.”
“I should be the nosy one!” I muttered. “I’m the one who doesn’t know anything.”
He laughed beneath his breath, and I realized it was nice to see him smile.
“Is everything okay?”
The smile on his lips disappeared, and his eyes cut to me, then away. “Why wouldn’t it be?”
“You seem agitated.”
“It was loud inside.”
Something niggled at the back of my mind, and I tried to focus on whatever it was.
Ben appeared, carrying a pizza box and his car keys. “Let’s roll.”
“Shouldn’t I tell everyone goodbye?” Then I gasped. “I didn’t pay!”
“Pizza was on the house.” Matt reminded me.
“But everyone—”
“You can text them later,” Ben said.
I gasped again. “Where’s my phone?”
“You’re gonna give yourself asthma with all that gasping,” Ben scolded. Then to Matt, he said, “Trade me.”
The next thing I knew I was back in Ben’s arms and Matt was carrying the pizza.
On the way across the street, Ben told me, “Your phone is busted. I’ll take you to get a new one tomorrow.”
“I can’t afford a new phone,” I said, and then I realized…
“Woman, if you gasp again, I’m gonna stick my tongue in your mouth so you can’t breathe at all.”
Oh. Well, if that didn’t conjure up all sorts of desire. I fell quiet, marveling at the fact I could be so enticed by the idea of him kissing me breathless. I barely knew him, right? I guess it didn’t matter at all that my brain didn’t remember because my body sure seemed to.
Clearly, we had chemistry. Clearly, physical attraction was not a problem for us. I couldn’t help but think about sex. And kissing. What had that been like between us? The way my body seemed to crave him made me think we couldn’t keep our hands off each other.
“I can’t just come home with you,” I said.
He paused beside his car. “Why not?”
Because I want you to touch me. But I said, “Isn’t that against dorm rules?”
