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
tense like I might bolt even though there’s nowhere
he’s
*
don’t even like me like that,” he says, half–laughing, half–squinting at me like
snap. “That’s
He blinks.
“…I’m the control group.”
“Exactly.”
me for a beat longer, then huffs out a laugh – low, a little bit exasperated, a
mutters. “Who messed
away. “So
“Jess.”
deep,” I mutter, heat crawling up my neck. “It’s a five–second thing.
is gonna undo
“It might.”
“Is this about Grayson?”
head snaps up. “It’s not-“I cut myself off, biting the inside of my
and that’s all it
says, softer now. Brow furrowed like
What the hell did
71%
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ugly, bitter, sharp at
he wants to fuck
drops his banana, literally drops it. “HOLY SHIT. HE
“Logan-”
in a full circle like the
down my face.
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“I know.”
staring at me. Still horrified. “And you
he says it – like I’m the crazy one here – like
“You wouldn’t?”
His whole body recoils.
“ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT.”
arms out – fully scandalized – walking away from me like he needs five feet of space just to survive
right now. Do you know how many women in this pack would pay to be ruined
“Gross.”
“True.”
head like this
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