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He sighed and smiled weakly. “Yeah. A real whack job.” He covered my hand with his. “And we’ve talked about me long enough.”
My face got hot. “I didn’t know you could talk about anything else.”
His gaze grew intense as he held mine. “I wanna know. That weekend, right here in this room, did you feel it? Or was it just me?”
CHAPTERTWENTY-FIVE
KANE
What the hell.
I wasn’t in the business of pussyfooting around the truth. I might not know what it was that happened to me whenever JoJo was near, but I’d feltitfrom the first time I’d seen her.
Might as well find out if I was the only one.
She blinked at me and those cheeks turned scarlet. “I don’t see what it accomplishes to answer that.”
A swell of disappointment came over me. Once again, I’d given. I’d opened up first. I’d faced questions I hadn’t dared to examine myself.
And she dodged.
“I’ve learned not to expect much from people, but I guess I did from you.” I slid off the dryer. “I don’t see what it accomplishes if I’m the only one talking. I can do that without you.”
Why did I think she’d be different? Because no one else made me feel like she did?
Lesson learned.
I didn’t know what was in that head of hers, and I wasn’t going to try to figure it out.
“I felt it.”
I froze in the doorway with my back to her.
I felt it.
A knot in my chest released, yet I felt like I couldn’t breathe.
“I still do.”
I still do.
Her admission was so quiet, I’d barely heard it. But I had.
Something sparked to life within me. Made me realize something I’d been vaguely considering since JoJo walked back into my life. I’d been dead inside for as long as I could remember.
I still do.
And those three words brought me back to life.
I stalked back to her and wedged between her legs. My face was inches away from hers... so close her warm breath hit my skin.
“What is it?” I pleaded. “Tell me what this is.”
She fisted my shirt. “I don’t know.”
She shook me, begging me to have the answer.
I was old enough to realize I didn’t know everything, but experienced enough to have a clue, especially when it came to other people.
