“I checked.”
I stare at him.
He lifts his brows.
“You know I kinda have a thing about fixing problems,” I say.
He grins. “Kinda noticed.”
“It’s really…attractive…when other people do it first.”
He holds eye contact for a solid fourteen years while I silently beg him not to mock me for calling him attractive.
This is hard.
It’s so hard.
But he is. He’s attractive. And if I don’t tell him so, he’ll flirt with other women and wink at them and make me feel like a frumpy, jealous asshole again.
Or maybe he’ll still flirt with other women.
Maybe he doesn’t care that I think he’s attractive.
But I need to take this leap.
I need to be brave. I need to be bold. I need to befun.
His mouth twitches up in one corner, and I want to kiss it.
Oh,god, do I want to kiss it.
He angles closer to me, that grin morphing into a smoldery smile. “Laney Kingston, are you admitting that my secret competence might turn you on?”
“Yes,” I whisper.
His grin gets bigger.
But then it freezes.
“Be right back,” he murmurs.
“But—”
“Laney. Oh my god, Laney Kingston?” Addison Hunter steps in front of me and smothers me in a hug while I gape at Theo’s retreating back. “I can’t believe it’s you! I haven’t seen you since high school.”
Freaking Theo.
Where is he going?
Why is he leavingnow?
We were having a moment. Weren’t we?
“I heard you’re taking over for your parents as one of the youngest next CEOs in the country,” Addison gushes. “That’s so crazy. I remember when they just printed shirts for our soccer teams. And now they practically own the photo gift industry.”
“Yeah. It’s pretty cool.” Where did he go? There’s Sabrina. Does she know where he went?
Nope. She’s not paying attention to me or Theo.
