Here’s the moment I’ve waited for all my life.Well, not exactlythemoment, but finally, we’re talking about it.
I swallow my pride and ask the one thing I need to know.“Don’t you feel anything?”
“No,” he replies after five long beats.
Liar.
I wait.
Liam turns to me after switching lanes, and those gray eyes hold mine for as long as he safely can before turning back to the road.
“No, Jessie.”
“I don’t think you’re telling the truth,” I say under my breath before turning away, embarrassment burning into my cheeks.
It’s quiet for the rest of the drive.
We pull up alongside the Warner Bros entrance, and I try to muster some excitement, but the man I’ve desired my entire life just rejected me point blank, and it feels horrible.
Suddenly Liam takes my hand, and an electrical charge jolts up my arm and through the very core of me.Our eyes lock, and it’s almost like he’s giving me a glimpse of his true feelings.
“Jess.I’m a man.I can see you’re a woman and that you are fucking gorgeous.”
My heart pounds inside my chest so hard I can barely draw a breath.
“If you weren’t Jayden’s little sister...”
He glances away, and I wish so badly I could know what he was thinking inside his frustratingly stubborn and beautiful head.But instead of finishing his sentence, Liam turns back, cups my face, then draws his fingers down my nape.
God.
I nearly combust.
I want him so much.The heat of his touch reaches every nerve ending in my body.I want more.I want him to keep going and caress my nipples.To slide his hand between my thighs.To lift me onto his lap and tug his cock out.
My eyes drift closed.
“But you are.”Liam’s hand drifts over my shoulder, then falls away.
I stifle my cry.
Regret hangs in the air as our eyes lock until a knock on the side of the Jeep snaps us out of it.
“Rutherford.”A heavily built man wearing a BHS uniform stands on the sidewalk, and he’s armed.“Savannah is in there, waiting with Bullock.”
“Thanks, Perez.”Liam climbs out of the Jeep.
I gather my bag and let him assist me getting out, the feel of his hand on my hip different once again.
It’s brotherly.
“Jess,” Liam says as I glance up.“You good?”
I nod and force a smile.I’m an actress after all.
“Yes.Excited.I’ll see you tomorrow or something.”
“I’ll pick you up after.”
