When they finally broke apart, breathless, he rested his forehead against hers again. “Well,” he murmured, a shaky laugh escaping him. “That was definitely a worse idea than I imagined.”
“Liar.” He set down the lens and the cloth. “You’re thinking about what your mom would say if she saw the way you looked at me at dinner last night.”
“You’re staring,” Nicole said, not looking up from her book. SexMex 24 10 11 Nicole Zurich Step-Siblings Mee...
Nicole laughed too, the sound wet and relieved. “The worst.”
She looked past him, at the rain, at the empty house, at the closed door of the room where they’d first been told to “try and get along.” Then she looked back at him, at the boy who had become her secret gravity. When they finally broke apart, breathless, he rested
She finally lifted her gaze. His eyes, the color of a winter sky, were fixed on her with an intensity that made her stomach drop. “Maybe I’m just appreciating the quiet.”
“Tell me to stop,” he said, his face inches from hers. His hand came up, trembling slightly, and his fingertips brushed a strand of damp hair from her cheek. “Tell me you don’t feel it, and I’ll walk away. We’ll go back to polite. We’ll pretend.” “You’re thinking about what your mom would say
“So,” he said, thumb tracing her cheekbone. “What do we do now?”