“Uh, yeah. I thought you were going to punch him for hugging me. Ahug, Zade.” Her mouth twisted when she said the wordhugand nothing but naughty thoughts went into my head. God, I needed to get a grip.
“I’ve never been jealous before. I hate it.” I held out my hand and lowered my voice. “Can I touch you again?”
“Fine.” She sighed, but her eyes softened at me. I pulled her into my arms and my world righted itself again. “You better not be one of those crazy jealous types. They annoy me.”
I kissed her forehead and pulled her back to look in her eyes. She’d told me mine were a way to see my every mood, but I began to learn how to read hers. Narrowed meant annoyance or angry. Now, they were soft and open. “How about this? I’ll try to rein it in and handle it better next time. I won’t tell you what to do or what not to do. That’s all on you.”
“Good. Because as soon as you would’ve tried…I would’ve taken off. I’m a little mad at you and you better not do anything like that again, but…”
“But what?”
“You had a little caveman thing going on.” She blushed, the redness to her cheeks pretty damn appealing. “Kind of hot. But I am not condoning your behavior.”
“Duly noted. I’m going to be honest with you.”
“I like honesty. It tends to be the best policy.” She grinned at her quote and I couldn’t help but grin, too.
“I used to love coming here. Now, I’ve been counting down until we can leave.”
“Hmm, well, we can’t have that.” She grabbed my hand and wiggled her eyebrows. “Dance with me.”
“Eh, not a good idea.” I thought about her body against mine and how hard she’d made me already. “I’m already feeling animalistic and possessive toward you.”
“Animalistic I like. Possessive I don’t.”
“I don’t want to share you.”There. I said it.The words I’d never uttered to a girl before were out in the open. I had no idea how she’d react to that, but I did not fucking expect her to throw her head back and laugh. I fought a grin because it was contagious, but I didn’t get the joke. “Care to share why you laughed when I admitted something from my heart?”
“By all means. First, you’re certifiably nuts if you think for one second I have room for anyone else when you take over every sense I have.”God, best answer ever.I grinned like a fool at that and wanted to beat my chest.
“Secondly, Zade, you have the power to remedy this situation and ensure we are exclusive.”
“Were we not exclusive?”Fuck. Fuck.I thought I’d made that clear. “There’s no one else but you.”
“If you’re asking,again, if I wanted to see anyone else, the answer is still a hell to the no.” She ran her fingers through my hair, softly. “But we haven’t talked about what we are. What this means. Anything like that.”
“Like boyfriend-girlfriend shit?”
“Sure.”
“Fine. Want to be my girlfriend?”
“Do I have to wear your watch?” An odd question, one I didn’t understand.
“If you want to?”
“Nah, I’m good.” She began to walk away.
“Wait, what? You don’t want to be?”
“Nah. I’m good. I don’t want to be your girlfriend and shit at the present time.”
She had to be messing with me. She had to. I wanted to mark her as mine, forgoing all the anti-possessive speech she’d given me earlier. I wanted her wearing my jersey, watch, anything—I didn’t really care. I circled her waist with my arms and kissed her neck, loving how she shivered. “Care to explain why you constantly tell me no when I know how your body reacts to me?”
“Because you asked me after reacting to someone else hugging me. It was out of a jealous fit you’d never had the experience of before.” She hummed in pleasure as I continued to explore her neck. “Am I right?”
“Shit. I don’t know. I want you to be mine,” I growled into her ear.
“You’d better think of a better way of asking. And, if I can say, better timed.” She walked away but spun around to fire back, “Plus, aboyfriendwould dance with me.”
