His shoulders lift in a small flinch.
“I fucked up a little bit.”
I look around my house to see if he’s about to tell me he broke something. Nope, nothing out of the ordinary.
“Okay?” I clutch the tea in my hands tightly.
He scrunches his eyes closed before turning to face me. “I accidentally let some private information slip and when Mom made her own speculations based on it, I was too shocked to correct her in time.”
I’m honestly so confused.
“And this concerns me how?”
“It all involved you.”
The silence in my house is deafening. “Right.”
“You know how they really want us to get together?”
My stomach tightens. “Yes?”
“And you know how they always bring it up?”
“You better not be going where I think you’re going with this, Finley.”
“I may have?—”
“No.”
“—accidentally implied?—”
“Please, God, no.”
“—well, inadvertently suggested really?—”
“Finley—”
“—that we’re dating?”
I’m so shocked and disturbed that I do the only thing that feels right in this moment…I punch him right in the gut.
ChapterSix
FINN
It’s a real good thing that Oakleigh can’t throw a punch to save her life. Otherwise, that would have hurt like a motherfucker. Luckily, the groan I let out is more for her sake than mine because honestly, I do get it. I sprung this on her just as much as I sprung it on myself.
“What thefuck, Finley?” she seethes.
“I know, I know,” I groan, making a show of wincing as I sit up straight. She’s spilled tea on her couch, but she doesn’t seem to notice. “Let me explain.”
“Oh, you’re going to explain alright. You’re going to tell me every last goddamn detail, otherwise the next punch will be right to your dick.”
Okay, that one might hurt.
“It all happened in the space of a split second. Hell, I was in the middle of a massive spiral and just started ranting, I had no idea that I was going to mention our kiss?—”
“You what?!”
