Chapter 187

“I don’t want to leave her just yet. Sit with me; keep me company.” He locks a look on my face; that half-smile melts me with those overly cute dimples that set my belly alight. I slide onto the seat immediately, too swayed by that face and hating myself for the obedience, knowing it’s probably stupid to cozy up beside him in the middle of the night, given the last time we got so close in here. Still, something inside me is urging me to stay with him. The desire is more potent than my will, and even though I try to sit away slightly, once he turns back to his mom, his shoulder and arm fit snugly against me and make me tremble with the effects of his touch. That awareness zooming back in, and every inch of my skin tingles in recognition of his body heat, betraying me. “What are you reading her?” I ask, focusing on something else and pushing him out of my mind, ignoring my traitorous body, and trying so desperately to breathe normally as my breaths get shallow. I hush my voice so as not