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“Yeah … No, it won’t.” Although, I wish what he was saying was true.
God, how I wish it was true.
“Why not?” he wonders. “If it sounds like a place you want to live, then why not move there?”
“Um … because I’m sure it’s super expensive. There’s no way I could afford living in any of those cities.”
He brushes his fingers through my hair. “If you had roommates, you could.”
“Yeah, maybe.” I consider what he said.
Could that kind of future be possible?
His fingers comb through my hair again. “And just to clarify, by roommates, I mean Jax, Zay, and I.”
I arch a brow at him. “You seriously want to put an offer on the table for me to move in with you eight months down the road?”
“Yeah,” he says without missing a beat.
I gape at him. “Why? You barely know me. For all you know, in like a month, you’re going to be so damn tired of me that you’ll be pushing me off that bridge yourself.”
Something snaps in his expression. Breaks and comes alive at the same time. Maybe it’s called passion … I don’t know.
“No one is ever going to do anything like that to you ever again.” His voice trembles a bit as he makes the intense vow.
Maybe it was the wrong thing to say.
“I’m sorry,” I tell him. “I just … I was just pointing out that we could make plans to move away together—all four of us—but there’s a chance that you’ll get tired of me, so maybe we should wait to figure out if we want to go to college together.”
“Nah.” He dismisses me, relaxing again. “Trust me; I have a feeling that’s not going to happen. Besides, Jax, Zay, and I get attached easily to certain things. Like how we did with each other. We bonded almost instantly. And with you? I had the same feeling with you, Ravenlee, from the moment I heard you talk about your beautiful name's cursed meaning.”
I press my lips together, mostly so I can catch my breath. His words, though, and the way he’s saying them make breathing complicated. “You called me Ravenlee. I think that might be the first time you ever have.”
“I know, but I had to get my point across.”
“That it’s a beautiful name?”
He shakes his head. “That this isn’t some flirty game to me. Do I like calling you baby and teasing you? Oh, absolutely. But I also want to be more than that.” He reaches out and grazes his finger across the arch of my neck, right where my pulse is racing and right where Jax marked my neck. “If you’ll let me.”
Okay, so I hate to admit this, but I literally have no idea what he’s implying. Like, does he want to give me a hickey? Or is he just touching me because he wants to and accidentally touched the hickey?
Hello clueless Raven, you are becoming an annoying presence in my life lately.
Thankfully, for the sake of me continuing to stare at him like a clueless dumbass, the doorbell rings.
We both jolt at the sound. Then he slowly removes his fingers from my hickey, a small smile touching his lips.
“You good with that?” he asks me.
I just nod. I have no idea why, but I don’t want to ask him for fear of what it could mean.
It’s a weird fear, for sure, and truthfully, I don’t entirely understand it.
“Good.” He visibly relaxes then removes his arm from around me and stands. “I bet that’s Low.”
All I can do is nod and wonder what the hell just happened between us.
Wonder if I just agreed to let Hunter give me a hickey.
