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“You should have thought about this earlier. Seriously, who doesn’t have a password on their phone?”
“Somebody who doesn’t need it. Can you please give it back?” Her hand wraps around my waist, and my stomach quivers at her touch, heat spreading through my limbs.
“Any lower, and you’ll give people an eyeful, Birdy,” I say softly, my voice coming out rough.
Penelope sucks in a breath and pulls her hand back like I’ve burned her. My body mourns the loss of her touch, but I shake my head, reminding myself of the task at hand.
“Instagram,” a mechanic voice says as I tap on the app, but doesn’t bother opening it.
What the hell?
I try again, but the result is the same. “Instagram.”
“Why doesn’t it want to open?” I mutter to myself.
A smile forms on Penelope’s lips. “Serves you right for snooping around.”
“You could give me your username, and I wouldn’t need to snoop around.”
“Not a chance.”
“Fine, I’ll figure it out myself.”
I tap a few more times on the screen, feeling like a complete idiot, when the app finally opens.
“Thank fuck.” I glance up to see Penelope frowning at me, but she doesn’t say anything.
It takes me another two minutes to figure out how I opened the app—one tap is for the screen reader, and two taps for the damn thing to open—before I’m scrolling through her profile. Videos of Penelope, but mostly Henry, fill her feed. I tap on one video and watch as Penelope and Henry walk, only for Henry to come to a stop when there is a car parked on the sidewalk. Penelope gives him the command, but he ignores her, looking around as if he’s trying to figure a way around it.
“You’re posting about your life,” I say out loud, my eyes still glued to the screen as Henry goes on the street, checking that a car isn’t coming before quickly walking her around the car and onto a sidewalk.
“It was Jade’s idea. None of my friends knew much about guide dogs until we met, and they found it fascinating. So she said I should post about it online to help teach people. It’s just for fun.”
Fun, my ass.
“This is amazing, Birdy.” I look down at all the videos before glancing up at her. “You’re amazing.”
She ducks her head. “I don’t know about that. This is just my life.”
Screw that.
Turning around to face her, I slide my finger under her chin. My gaze falls on her mouth as she lets her lip pop.
“I know it. The more I get to know you, the more you amaze me.”
And I was starting to think I’d never get enough of it.
CHAPTERNINETEEN
PENELOPE
The more I get to know you, the more you amaze me.
Sebastian’s words still ring in my mind as we walk back to our building in companionable silence. I didn’t know what to think—what to make of him. Sometimes he acted like a complete asshole, but other times, like just now, he was extremely sweet. Which one was the real Sebastian?
I had no idea, but I wanted to find out.
A soft buzzing of a phone breaks me out of my thoughts.
