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Trying to play it cool, I nodded. “I like popcorn.”
I’d only been living there for the past month, but I already felt like I knew a lot about him. Especially when it came to girls, they were constantly walking in and out of his house. Sometimes they were the same girls, most of the time they weren’t.
Jax was one of the most popular guys at our school. Everyone knew who he was, and rumors about him ran rampant in the halls. Every day it was something different. The most recent was that he’d lost a bet to his teammate Ryan, and he had to get his dick pierced.
My stomach fluttered just thinking about it. I might have been inexperienced, but I wasn’t stupid.
“Let’s go make Baby Soph some popcorn, huh?”
“Baby Soph?”
He stayed mute until we were standing in the kitchen. “Everyone calls you baby, right?”
Setting the stove on for the kernels, I simply nodded. There I was thinking he was calling me baby in an I’m hitting on you kind of way.
I’m so dumb.
“You don’t have to call me baby like everyone else does. It’s just a silly nickname that started in first grade. I’ve always looked innocent, and you know, younger, and since I’m a petite girl it kind of just stuck.”
What happened next was right out of one of my many dreams about him. He gripped onto my waist and lifted me onto the counter to stand in between my legs. His grasp never left my sides, and I thought I’d stopped breathing.
“I like throwing you around, Baby Soph. Look.” He peered down at his hold. “My hands can touch around your waist.”
I swallowed hard.
“So tell me, Sophie… How innocent are you?”
I licked my lips, my mouth suddenly dry.
What could I say? The truth?
He’d laugh at me.
I could feel my cheeks burning, and when he dug his fingers into my waist a little harder, it felt as though he was holding back from something as well.
Did he want to kiss me? No. Why would he want to kiss me?
I cleared my throat, wanting to break this intensity between us. It was a connection I’d never experienced with anyone before, and the way he was making me feel was too much of everything. Gazing back toward the stove, I changed the subject.
“Are you going to get the kernels?”
He smiled, and it lit up his entire face. I could tell he knew I was avoiding the question.
For a moment, I got lost in his eyes. I’d never seen a guy who looked like Jax. He was gorgeous. Had the all-American boy vibe nailed with bright blue eyes that almost looked teal against his skin. His chiseled jawline, blond hair, and perfect white teeth finished off his handsomeness.
His body was lean and muscular. He was tall, probably around 6’4, maybe 6’5 to my 5’5 frame.
I looked so tiny against him.
When he backed away from me, I resisted the urge to groan before we both reached for the kernels in the jar beside me at the same time. Our fingers brushed against each other, triggering electricity to spark along my skin.
Ignoring that too, I got off the counter and quickly pulled my hand away from his, taking the jar with me. I poured some kernels into the pan, pitifully trying to distract myself from every emotion known to man. Feeling them one right after the other with the force of a hurricane tearing down everything in its path.
“You’re making it wrong,” was the last thing I heard him say before I felt his chest press against my back.
In one swift movement, his arms caged me in as he took the jar out of my hand. The heat of his chest had me weak in the knees and dizzy in the head.
“You have to separate the kernels, or they’ll burn. Unless you want to eat burnt popcorn, Baby Soph?”
