My heart is a drumbeat in my chest. “I –”
“It’s fine. I won’t tell.” She mimics a zipping motion on her lips before pointing to the back of her jersey. “But anyway, Jackson. I’m Tempest Jackson. Reed’s my brother.”
She’s Reed’s sister.
Sister.
“That’s why you look familiar,” I breathe out before I get a hold of myself. “I’m sorry. I just thought you looked familiar.”
She wiggles her eyebrows. “You also thought I was his girlfriend, didn’t you?”
“What? No.” I shake my head, squirming in my seat. “I… It’s none of my business.”
“It’s okay. He has a lot of girlfriends. Oops. Not girlfriends. Girls. My brother doesn’t do girlfriends.”
“Oh yeah, I know.”
Tempest stares at me for a few seconds. It’s not long but it’s enough to make me slightly uncomfortable and self-conscious. “But that doesn’t mean that he won’t ever have a girlfriend. You know, when the right girl comes along. He’s just being an idiot right now.”
“O-kay.” I nod. “That’s good to know.”
“Is it?”
“What?”
Tempest completely turns to me then. “I like you. I think you’re cool. And I think…” She lowers her voice. “You have a major crush on my brother. And –”
“Oh my God. Stop.”
I look around to make sure no one’s listening in on our conversation.
Although the stadium is so loud and people are so engrossed in the game, I highly doubt anyone could eavesdrop even if they wanted to.
But still.
I can’t take any chances. If someone so much as got a whiff of the fact that I was talking about him, that Ledger and Conrad’s sister was talking about having a crush on the enemy, I don’t even know what would happen.
Ledger would definitely kill Reed.Definitely.
And then he’d lock me up somewhere for who knows how long for betraying him, and I wouldn’t even blame him.
Because it is a betrayal, isn’t it?
“What?” Tempest asks confused.
“Don’t even talk about it.”
“Why not?”
“Because you can’t. And becauseIcan’t.”
“You can’t what?”
I look around again. I even go so far as to lean in toward her and lower my voice. “I can’t like your brother.”
She leans in as well. “What? Why can’t you?”
“Because I can’t.”
