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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Jessicà stood her ground and a part of me liked

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

up at me, and I could tell she was annoyed, but I didn't care. "You weren't going to kiss him. Relax, I just helped you get away without hurting his ego,"

and she squared her shoulders like she was ready to go toe-to-toe

I repeated, my voice flat and certain. But Jess stood her

she insisted, her tone full

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

"I wasn't," she snapped.

know you weren't," I said, letting my voice drop to a lower,

flickered across her face, her brows knitting together as she processed what just happened. That small moment of victory? Yeah, I was going to

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about to let her go that easily. I stuck out my arm, blocking her path. "Wait," I said firmly, my tone leaving no room

and invited me. Jessica had somehow become more alive this last year 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. It felt like hours, though it was probably

breath hitched, and before either of us could'think twice, my mouth found hers, crashing into a kiss. I half ex I walked us