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“Penny?” His confusion seemed to double.
“I know she was your fuck buddy back in school.”
Understanding dawned, but then his face went blank, really fast. I didn’t like the “really fast” part because he was hiding it now, from me. “That was a long time ago. You want me to be an ass when your ex shows up?”
I gave him a look. “You would, and we both know it. You already were with Jarrod.”
His shoulders relaxed a little. “Yeah. You’re right. I was a dick to Brandon and he just said, ‘you two.’”
I almost grinned at that, or I would’ve, if I wasn’t still mad at him. Mad because he had an ex who was inside, who I had to give “the really expensive stuff” to. I had to say it. “She is not worth that wine, just saying.”
A gentle grin came over him, and he took a step closer, his head lowering even more. “You’re right. She’s not.”
I waited for the line, waited for him to say that instead, I was worth it. But he didn’t, and I glanced up.
He’d been waiting, the side of his mouth curved up. “I know what you’re thinking.”
I laughed, reaching out to shove him back, not thinking about it. He caught my hand instead, and he used it to haul me up as he surged forward. We were hugging, and I didn’t push him away. My hand curled in on his shirt, holding him in place. He tipped his head back, still smiling at me, as his hands wrapped around me and slid down, moving up under my shirt. “You like me. Like,like-like me.”
I looked away. “Shut up.”
“You do. You totally do.” He began to rock us back and forth, his hands sliding up against my back.
A tingle raced up my spine from his touch, but I half scowled at him. “We’re sleeping together. Of course, I like you, you idiot.”
He stopped rocking us and his forehead moved down, resting on mine. I could feel him getting serious and held my breath. He said, almost quietly, “I like-like you too. Like, like like like like you.”
A slight laugh escaped me. “You are not funny. That’s not something to laugh at.”
“You’re the one who just laughed.”
“Because you said you ‘like like like’ me.”
“No.” He was still serious. Almost solemn. “I said that I ‘like like like like’ you.”
“Such a difference.”
“It is. There’s a lot of difference between like like like and like like like liking someone. I like like like like you and I might even go so far to say that I like like like likelikeyou, a lot.”
“You can be kinda…” I was going to say stupid, but he wasn’t. He was being sweet and funny, and he was making me smile. And he didn’t care that I’d been irrationally jealous seconds ago.
“What? I can be what?” His hand was moving over my back, sensually.
I was really starting to like like like likelikehow he was touching me.
I shook my head. “Intense sometimes, and sweet at other times.”
His head lifted, but he kept studying me. “Is that an okay thing?”
I nodded. “That’s an okay thing.” My break was almost done. “I need to go back in. Can you do me a favor?”
“Anything.”
I gave him a look.
He just grinned back at me.
“Can you put an entire seat between you and your ex?”
