Letting My Brother's Best Friend Take My V-Card

CHAPTER 68

LUKE

Once that scrawny blond prick was out of the picture, I didn't waste any time. I pulled Jess away from the crowd, finding a hidden corner in the club behind some purple curtains.

Privacy was all I wanted, enough of it to ask her what the hell she was thinking letting a stranger touch her like that! Not after Bryan... She should know better, and be on guard. I wasn't about to let her get caught up in any more

bullshit tonight. Last time I should have stopped it and didn't, then look what happened. Not tonight. But as I tried to yank the damn curtain closed, it got stuck on something. I tugged again, harder this time, but it wouldn't budge. I was about to rip it right off the railings wher I heard a chuckle behind me and found Jessica stifling a laugh and folding her arms across her chest with a smirk. "I mean, curtain one and Luke zero..." Jessica shrugged and it infuriated

1. me.

I didn't see what was so funny but for some reason, I wanted to smile... I turned on her, closing the space between us in a single step. She was so close that her nose almost brushed my chest. "What the hell are you doing with that guy?" I demanded.

Jess crossed her arms over her chest, huffing like I was the one being ridiculous. "I should be asking what the hell that was out

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stood her ground and a part of

little, "Saving you from that excuse of a man, it seems," I said, biting back the urge to tell her that

going to kiss him. Relax, I just helped you get

squared her shoulders like she was ready to go toe-to-toe with me. "I was,"

weren't," I repeated, my voice flat and certain. But Jess stood her ground,

she insisted, her

frustration build. "Fine, you were," I conceded, but the second the words left my mouth, she bit

"I wasn't," she snapped.

couldn't help but smile, feeling satisfied that I just won that little debate. "I know you weren't," I said, letting my voice drop to a

face, her brows knitting together as she processed what just happened. That small moment of victory?

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CHAPTER 60

up, and made a move to push past me. But I wasn't about to let her go that easily. I stuck out my arm, blocking her path. "Wait," I

than ever before and it was... distracting. "What, Luke?" she snapped, her voice biting, cutting right through even though the music was so l We just stared at each other, tension crackling in the air like a live wire.

I groaned, closing the distance between us in one swift motion. My hand slid behind her neck, fingers threading through her hair as I pulled her to me. Her breath hitched, and before either of us could'think twice, my mouth found hers, crashing into a kiss. I half ex I walked us back, guiding her until she hit the wall behind the curtain. I pressed her into it, the need to