Page 78 of I Never Stopped Loving You

Jeremy and Jenna are in their own little world. I can see Jenna turned sideways in the booth with her legs tucked under her. Jeremy’s already scooted closer and has also angled his body to face hers more. His one arm is on the back of the booth, and the other is on her knee. They are completely unaware of our conversation.

I wonder if I have Jeremy take Jenna home in my truck, would Willow take an Uber back to my place?

“Do you want to come over? I live right on the water,” I ask. My voice cracks only slightly from nerves. I shouldn’t push so fast, especially with how last night ended, but fuck it.

“Tomorrow?”

“No. Tonight.”

“Noah…”

“What? I just want to show you the house and the lake. Jeremy can take Jenna home in my truck. You and I can Uber back to my house. Then Jeremy can drive the truck back, and I’ll take you home later.”

“I don’t know. I couldn’t leave Jen…What the hell?”

She glances over to say she couldn’t leave Jenna, but Jenna is already kissing Jeremy, blissfully unaware of the world around her.

“I think she’ll be fine without you,” I whisper against her neck.

I felt her body shudder earlier when I whispered in her ear, and it just did it again.

“We really shouldn’t.”

“Why?”

“Because you…We…Damn it, Noah. I told you last night. We can’t…”

I don’t give her the time to finish that sentence. Without thinking, my one hand grabs onto the back of her neck, the other cups her face, and the next second her lips are on mine. Fuck. The rush of pleasure that washes over my body has my eyes rolling. Her soft moan as I bite gently on her lower lip has my cock hardening.

She doesn’t pull away. She doesn’t fight this. She feels this connection between us. Even if she doesn’t know why it’s there, I know she feels it.

Every kiss and bite on those perfect, plump lips has her gasping. Her fingers slowly moved from my chest up to my neck before she tangled them in my hair.

*Ahem*

A throat clears, breaking Willow’s spell on me.

“Sorry to interrupt, but I think we need to get going, Willow,” Jenna says, and I can tell Jeremy is just as flustered as I am.

“Willow, please,” I practically beg.

“I can take Jenna home in an Uber to make sure she gets home safe and sound,” Jeremy cuts in.

“Then how will you get to my place?” I ask.

“Uber.”

“That’ll be too much money. Just take my truck. We’ll take the Uber.”

I watch Jenna out of the corner of my eye, mouthing the word please to Willow, and my stomach knots. Is she begging her not to leave her with Jeremy, even though just a few moments ago they were practically tongue fucking each other? I swear to God if he did something to fuck this up, I’m going to kill him.

“Okay, that works,” Willow’s soft voice cuts through the anger simmering in my veins.

“So you’ll come over?”

“As long as Jenna’s cool with Jeremy taking her home.”

“Oh yeah. I’m good. You two go have fun…Lots of fun.” She winks at Willow, causing her to blush.