Page 52 of Devil In The Details
“Why don’t you try talking to him? Tell him how you feel?”
Her eyes flash with bitterness. “He won’t listen. Not yet anyway.”
“Oh.” I wince. “I’m sorry.”
“He’s with someone else.” She rolls her eyes. “But she’s not the one for him.”
I give her a pitying nod. “That sucks.”
“It’s only a matter of time before she’s gone, and he comes back to me.”
“It was nice to meet you, Alice,” I say distractedly as my phone chimes in my bag. “But my guy’s likely to come in here searching for me if I don’t get out there.” I give her a wave. “Bye.”
I make a turkey sandwich for me, another for Cash, before dropping a handful of chips on the side of our plates. “Dinner is served,” I announce cheekily as Islide his plate across the island, coming around to sit next to him.
“Why do you study in the library?”
“Less distraction.” I take a bite and moan. I’d been hungry.Starving.
Cash’s voice rumbles low. “I distract you.”
“Uh, yeah.”
“How so?”
I shrug. “You just do. I get more done at the library. Besides, I make friends there.”
“You do?” His brow raises.
“Yeah, tonight some girl saw the book I’m reading, and she’s reading it too so she joined me. I think she wanted to gush over the MMC, but I just started it, so I haven’t even met him yet.”
“Some girl just sat beside you because you’re reading the same book?”
“Mmhmm.”
“What’s an MMC?”
“Male main character.” I give him the ‘how don’t you know that’ scowl. “Don’t you read?”
“No.”
“You should. It’s fun.”
“Girls gush over fake dudes in books?”
“Totally.” I loose a happy little moan. “You have no idea. Guys in books are delicious.”
His eyes drop to my mouth when I say that, andmy belly squeezes. He didn’t take that the way I meant it. I can see it from his expression.
“You know much about that?” he asks bizarrely.
“About what?”
“About the way men taste?”
I blink, stunned. “Well,” I stammer. “I know how you taste.”
A strangled cough rises from the deep of his throat, and he knocks a fist into his chest. “No, Kitten, you don’t.”
