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She looked like she wanted to say more, but the words never came.
“Tonight?”
“I can’t. Not tonight. I promised Harper we’d hang out.”
“Fine. Tomorrow, be ready by seven-thirty. I know just the place to take you.”
I was infatuated with her, so desperate to kiss her again that I didn’t hear the footsteps.
But Aurora did.
“Someone’s coming.” She scrambled out from between me and the stacks, smoothing down her hair and the cute as fuck sweater swamping her frame.
“Sorry, I didn’t mean—Noah.”
Fuck.
“Hey, El,” I said, lifting my hand in a small wave.
“What are you doing here?”
“Picking up a book.” I grabbed the first book I could put my hands on and waved it toward her.
“You’re reading Anna Karenina?”
“Yep. I’m a big fan of”—I checked the spine—“Tolstoy.”
“You do know that’s an eight-hundred-page love affair about Russian high society, politics, and religion, right?”
Double fuck.
Aurora smothered a laugh as she peeked over at me.
“I swear you get weirder,” Ella murmured. “Did you find everything you needed, Rory?”
“Yeah. Good thing Noah appeared. I almost fell trying to get the last one down from up there.”
“That is lucky.” Suspicion danced in her eyes as her gaze flicked between us. “Well, I just need to grab a couple of books and get back to the desk. I’ll see you both soon.”
Ella reached around me and grabbed two books, then took off down the aisle.
“Do you think she suspected anything?” Aurora gnawed the end of her thumb, her eyes bouncing between me and the direction Ella went.
“Nope, I think we’re good,” I lied. Because Ella definitely suspected something.
The last thing I wanted was Aurora to worry because I fucked up. But it was like a switch had flipped, and I couldn’t stop thinking about her.
I had never been as turned on as I was last night, jerking myself while she watched me through big, inexperienced eyes.
Fuck, the things I wanted to do to her—to teach her.
But pursuing this thing with Aurora meant going behind Austin’s back, and that didn’t sit right with me. In fact, it made me feel like a giant fucking asshole.
Not enough to walk away from her, though.
We could keep this thing a secret, and nobody had to get hurt.
“I should go.” Aurora grabbed her stack of books, dropping her gaze to the book still in my hands. “Enjoy your book.”
