Not technically a lie.
“Okay,” she says quietly.
I grimace, knocking my palm against my forehead. What the hell? I need better answers, or she’ll never warm up to me.
“I kissed someone tonight,” she says.
A chill enters my flesh. I straighten. “Who?”
She kissed someone? What the hell? If I was on the fence before, I’m not now. I’m ready to jump in my car and ram my fist into the guy who thought he could kiss my girl.
“It doesn’t matter.”
“The hell it does,” I snap. “It matters a lot!”
“Why?”
I pinch the bridge of my nose. Count to ten. “I don’t fucking know, okay? I like you.”
“You don’t know me, Kane.”
“And he does? Tell me, does he know what you taste like? Has he licked your pussy?”
I swear if she says yes, I can’t be held responsible for what happens next. I’ll lose my shit.
“No, Kane, he hasn’t, but that doesn’t?—”
“So he doesn’t fucking know you. Not like I do.”
I press my hand to the wall and drop my chin to my chest. She’s determined to test my patience.
“I’ll let it slide this time, okay? But I swear if you kiss another man, Jessica, I’ll spank your ass raw.”
“He kissed me. I didn’t kiss him.”
My eye twitches. I swear steam is coming out of my ears like a whistling kettle. “Who is this motherfucker, baby?” I bite out slowly.
When I get my hands on him, I’m throwing him off that cliff she’s on. Yup, that sounds like a perfectly reasonable response to someone touching what’s mine. See? I’ve got my emotional regulation in check for once. My grade school teacher would be proud.
“Kane, you broke a guy’s wrist for talking to me.”
I shake my head. “That’s not true. He had his hand on your ass.”
“It’s not… that’s not… never mind. I shouldn’t have told you about the kiss.” Her voice is softer now.
“Why did you?”
“I don’t know,” she replies. “I felt guilty. I wanted to be honest. No lies between us.”
A smile slowly curves my lips. “So you admit there’s an us?”
There’s that soft giggling again. “There’s no us, Kane.”
“There’s an us, baby.” I bite down on the flesh of my lip to contain my wide grin. “And I’m fucking you soon.”
Her sweet laughter drifts into my ear and settles in my chest like champagne bubbles. “Keep dreaming, Kane Ravencourt.”
My eyes widen. “Say that again.”
