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She flashed me a tight smile until she saw the glass in my hand, then reached out and our fingers touched for a second when I handed it to her.
”Thank you,” she said softly. I sat across from her, though we had perfectly usable chairs and tables, but I said nothing about that. She drank the sangria, practically all at once, her lips red and lush with wine.
”Do you want another one of those?”
She nodded. ”Iwouldlike a distraction.”
I went to the kitchen to pour her another glass of sangria, and when I got back, she’d already set up the game in front of her.
”I have to warn you,” she said softly. ”I’m really good at this.”
”So am I,” I replied, handing her the drink.
She shook her head, her eyes set on mine. ”I didn’t expect that.”
”I’m offended,” I joked.
She smiled thinly and I was glad that she wasn’t worried about the threat to her life, if only for a second. Neither one of us said anything as we started the game. It was nice, sitting there and playing Scrabble with her, forgetting all about the chaos and danger that surrounded us. Just the two of us with only the sound of tiles clacking against each other, punctuated by the sound she made when she was thinking.
”Hurry up, Reyes,” I said when she took some time to think about the next word. ”I don’t have all night here.”
She smirked. ”Okay,” she said, then grimaced. ”But this is the only thing I have.”
She placed the wordmurderon the board, then looked up at me and shrugged.
”Cute,” I said.
”It was the only thing I had,” she said. ”Don’t read into it.”
I looked at the board and then back at my tiles. ”Okay,” I said. ”Then don’t read into this.”
Slowly, I put the wordundressnext to the u in murder.
When I looked up, she was staring at me, her eyes dark and bright. ”Are you sure you don’t want me to read into that?”
I leaned forward, my hand reaching out to brush a strand of hair away from her face. She didn’t move, didn’t flinch away from my touch. Her pupils dilated as she looked into my eyes. ”Your move,” I said, my gaze flitting between her lips and her eyes.
Her gaze drifted to the game, and she shook her head. ”I can’t focus on this anymore.”
”I can find something else for you to focus on,” I said, and before she could say anything else, my fingers were threaded in her hair and I was pulling her toward me in a crushing kiss.
Chapter Twenty-Five: Sofia
Hepulledawayfromme breathlessly.
”We’re finishing this game,” he said softly. ”You were right, you’re good, and I wanted to throw you off balance.”
The kiss seemed to have thrown him off balance too, though it was him who had initiated it and I now wanted to finish it. I craved to have his lips on mine, but I also didn’t just want him to be a distraction, though I was sure he would prove to be a good one.
My gaze darted from his mouth to his eyes again and I saw the darker coloring on his cheeks, the way he looked like blood had rushed to his face. He was always exceptionally handsome, but he was even more handsome now, with his hair tousled and his defenses down.
”Fine,” I said, swallowing as I looked at the tiles in front of me. ”But I’m going to kick your ass.”
”You can try,” he replied, wrinkling his nose.
I looked at my tiles and then back up at him. I had other options, but slowly, I placed the wordsuckon the board.
”Weak,” he said. ”I can do better than that.”
