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My chest felt both tighter and looser as I got closer to the end of the blocked-off streets that held the fair, and closer to home.
I needed to get there—to get back to the safety it provided.
But all I wanted was to experience the way Dare had made me feel again. And again.
Those knowing eyes. That mouth that could make me feel free . . .
Guilt ripped through me as I thought of the way I’d betrayed the only man I’d ever loved tonight. But I knew that the betrayal wouldn’t end. Not when I wanted another man’s kiss and touch the way I wanted Dare’s.
Tears pricked at my eyes. I gripped at my churning stomach as I pushed through another group of people.
I’d almost made it to the end when a hand clamped down around my wrist. My blood ran cold as I was hauled back against a tall, hardened body.
Oh God.
I didn’t watch her go, but it was impossible to miss the shift in the air once she was gone.
Something in me called to go after her. To chase her down and beg for her name. To ask what she was doing to me with those wide eyes and those lips I’d wanted to claim again and again.
This was no longer about just revealing her truths.
This was so much more.
Everyone stopped eating to look at me as soon as she left, but I refused to meet their questioning stares.
“Well, I’ll go first,” Libby stated after a minute of silence. “What the hell?”
“Who the fuck was that?” Johnny growled in a low tone that earned him a glare.
“I think she’s pretty.” Einstein shrugged, then fixed me with a wild-eyed stare I’d come to recognize meant there was a code she wanted to crack.
She would be nearly impossible to be around until she had.
“But there’s something about her mouth, I’m tellin’ ya, Dare,” she went on, her words now rushed at the thought of having something new to work on. “I know her, and I’m going to figure out how.”
An addict looking for their next fix. That was Einstein when it came to codes.
I now knew the feeling.
Two years of keeping a distance. Then ten minutes and two kisses with the girl, and I’d been reduced to a restless junkie. Muscles twitching as I forced myself not to jump out of my chair so I could find her and get another taste.
I was ready to beg Einstein to help me figure out who the girl was when Diggs huffed. “I’ll tell her what she can do with that mouth . . .”
I launched the first phone I touched at his face, but he caught it in time.
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“That was mine,” Einstein yelled and kicked me from under the table.
“I don’t know her,” Johnny muttered, his attention on Einstein before drifting toward the direction the girl had gone. “But there’s something not right about her.”
“Back to my question,” Libby interrupted. “What the hell, Dare? She was just suddenly there? And after what happened the other morning?”
“What happened the other morning?” Johnny demanded, but Libby continued on.
“And you were—you were . . .” Her shock and irritation with me were replaced by hurt and sadness. Her voice dropped when she said, “It’s been almost four years and you were—”
I shoved away from the table and took off after the girl before Libby could finish.
