I have a rule.
Whatever first thing I do whatever line I cross – it’s going to be with my mate.
I promised myself – a long, long time ago that if anyone was going to get that part of me, if anyone was going to wreck
me so bad I couldn’t crawl away from it later…
It was going to be the person the Moon Goddess chose for me.
Someone worthy. Someone fated and I’m pretty sure it’s not Grayson Westwood.
“Logan.” He pauses mid–chew, a banana halfway to his mouth, legs swinging off the back of his truck bed. I actually ask
him to skip class for me.
“Hm?”
“Kiss me.”
He chokes so violently he nearly falls off the tailgate.
“I’m sorry–what?”
“Just once,” I say, already regretting it, already spiraling. “Quick. Nothing weird.”
“You want me to–are you-” He blinks. “Jess. Are you fucking serious right now?”
Logan’s cute. Objectively. We’ve been friends since forever. He is safe. Harmless.
I shift, swinging my legs down from the truck bed and standing, brushing imaginary dirt off my jeans like it’ll help.
“It’s not a big deal,” I mutter, avoiding his eyes. “We’ll forget it even happened.”
“You seriously want me to kiss you?” His brows pull together. “Did something happen, Jess?”
I force a laugh. “Nothing happened.”
He gives me a look.
Dry. Flat. Oldest–friend–who–knows–better kind of look.
“Jess.”
“Nothing happened,” I say again, sharper this time. “Not that kind of happened.”
Which is technically true.
Grayson didn’t kiss me.
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just…did everything else except
I
he’s
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like that,” he says, half–laughing, half–squinting at me like he’s waiting
I snap. “That’s the
He blinks.
“…I’m the control group.”
“Exactly.”
then huffs out a laugh –
messed you
away. “So you won’t kiss
“Jess.”
mutter, heat crawling up my neck. “It’s a five–second thing.
think kissing me is gonna undo something someone else
“It might.”
“Is this about Grayson?”
“It’s not-“I cut myself
freezes and that’s all
softer now. Brow furrowed like I just told him I
“Goddamn. What the hell
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my head, laugh- ugly, bitter, sharp at
he wants to fuck
his banana, literally drops it. “HOLY SHIT.
“Logan-”
Turning in a full circle like the information is physically too much for his body to handle. “Grayson Westwood–Alpha Asshole himself—looked you in the eye and
my face. “It wasn’t exactly like
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version of that
“I know.”
staring at me. Still horrified.
one here – like I’m the
“You wouldn’t?”
His whole body recoils.
“ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT.”
me like he needs five feet of space just to survive that
know how many women in this pack would pay to be ruined by Grayson Westwood? There’d be
“Gross.”
“True.”
this is hands–down the most unhinged conversation he’s
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