CHAPTER 8

JESS

Sam and I waited for Laura all night, and we ignored the pool party Josh had going on downstairs. Sam was at the window, looking over at me.

"You know they're totally making out in the pool, right?" she said. "Like Luke and your brother with the two cheerleaders. What the hell? Ar the planning on having an orgy down there?"

I shrugged. "They can do whatever they want as long as it's not in the house and it doesn't keep me up at night."

I tried to be fine with it, but I knew deep down that there was a little hole starting to grow inside me. Why would I think that because Luke offered to take my virginity, it meant he might like me? Of course, he doesn't. It's just a joke to him. Poor little Jess so pathetic she can't get a guy to sleep with her.

I groaned and fell back onto my bed, yanking out my phone.

"Got a text from Laura," Sam said. "She's in an Uber on her way back."

"Do you think they did it?" I asked

Sam shrugged. "I mean, it's a little fast. Not that my first time lasted long anyway...like two minutes max. But a movie is longer than two hours, right?" Laura walked through the front door less than 20 minutes later,

000%

as soon as she stepped inside. "His girlfriend showed up the blures out between sobs. Luke

back to your cheerleaders. It's none of your business, I snapped Josh narrowed his eyes and ignored me. Well, clearly, someone made her cry," he demanded. "Tell me what the hell happened? Laura wiped at her face and finally spoke up. "My date thought I didn't need to know about his girlfriend-until she showed up she said, her voice shaking. "I would have been a convenient fuck in a parking lot."

do you suddenly care? Actually, dumb question. You don't care about anything other than

water, still reeling from the conversation with Laura about the asshole who thought she'd

and Luke had eventually gotten out of the pool and I guessed the girls stayed over because their car was still parked outside. Jealousy crept up my spine, and I hated it. I had no reason to be jealous - Luke wasn't mine. Hell, Luke was being

water and leaned over the kitchen counter, closing my eyes

I was feeling

of Luke having sex with that

my eyes, trying to shake off the feeling. I was just tired, that's all. It was late, and I was just

head back upstairs and yelped in surprise when I saw Luke standing in the shadows. He wasn't wearing a shirt. The only item of clothing on his body was a pair of boxers that hung very low and did very little to hide the

a solid V-shape that disappeared beneath the waistband to another outline. My throat

trying

at me, his eyes glinting with amusement. "Jealous?" he asked, taking a step closer and then another until he

clear it of Luke. "No,

sending shivers down my spine. "You're not jealous?" he repeated, his voice low and husky while his thumb traced an invisible line over my bottom lip and down

had a cheerleader upstairs. Hell, he

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255