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“No, we just got bigger and stronger,” Teagan replied.
“And harder to hold back,” he filled in for her, leaning down to kiss her lips and hopefully resetting the anger countdown so she wouldn’t burst through the partition to somehow land a flying crane kick to Shea’s mouth.
“Don’t think you can control me like that,” she hissed, even though she pulled him back down for more kisses. More kisses that made him grunt because she was biting him more than kissing him. Of course, he didn’t hate it, so that was a surprising thing he’d found out about himself that day. He’d file it away for later, though, because they were pulling into her car park.
“Hey, hey… knock that off,” Dave said, rapping on the partition. “I arrest people for much less.”
“Let us out then,” Jaxon countered, tapping on the door as Dave came round to open it.
Shea leaned over the seat to get one last swat in on Teagan, which Teagan tried to return, but Jaxon dragged her bodily away from the car. Waving to Dave in the process. “Come on now, leave your sister alone,” he chided.
“She’s a little twit sometimes,” Teagan groused as Dave pulled back out with Shea making faces at them through the window.
“Yeah, but you love her and you’re happy you’re so close with her.”
“She thinks she’s my best friend,” she said, smiling a bit.
“She’s not?”
“Not the only one. I think Britt qualifies now.”
“That it?” he asked, grinning a little when she rolled her eyes.
“Fine, you too.”
“Oh, don’t do me any favors, Teagan. I’ve got Brad. I don’t need you.”
She grinned and crowded up close to him. He took a step back until he ran into her car and she could crowd even closer. “You don’t need me? I could just… poof! Disappear, and you’d be fine?”
“Where are you planning on disappearing off to? Because I’m not certain my truck could make the drive, but if your piece of shit car could, then maybe-”
She kissed him again. Softer than before, even though she was laughing against his lips.
“Please don’t disappear,” he murmured softly. “Don’t know what I’d do without you. I can’t suck my own-”
“Fuck you,” she pushed him away, and he reached for her again.
“You know I’m joking.”
“I just like watching you squirm.”
Chapter Thirty-Nine
“Not now, love. I was telling the truth about taking you to lunch.”
She grinned and unlocked the doors. “Where to?”
“I don’t know. Somewhere we won’t run into anyone we know.”
She laughed. “Might have to drive out of Winter Town for that, no… wait! There’s a new place opened up on the square. Want to check it out?”
“Absolutely,” he replied, climbing into the passenger seat while Teagan climbed in as well and started the car.
He fiddled with the radio and she smacked his hand away, putting on her music instead because, according to her, the driver got to pick the tunes. He figured he’d hold off on telling her she could pick the tunes no matter who was driving because it sounded like the sort of thing he’d live to regret one day.
The new place on the square turned out to be a sandwich shop with something called ‘craft sodas’, which Jaxon knew next to nothing about. But if they were anything like craft beer, it’d be hit and miss.
Their server was young, and she kept cocking her head and fluttering her eyelashes at him, so Jaxon looked down at his menu and addressed it directly, moving closer to Teagan so maybe the server would get the idea that he was happily predisposed.
