Page 27 of After You

“You could just walk way,” hesaid.

For some reason, that hadn’t even occurred to her. Which was a huge problem.

“Yeah, I guess I could.” But she didn’tmove.

“Which would be perfect, actually,” he added.

“You want me to just walkaway?”

“That would be awesome. And if you could work on looking a little pissed off, that would be greattoo.”

“You want me to try to look pissedoff?”

“Are you pissed off?” he asked.

She thought about that. She should be pissed off. Maybe. Though she wasn’t sure why. He hadn’t really done anything except…tease her. Tempt her. And she should probably be more pissed off at herself for that. “I’m annoyed,” she finally answered.

“Well, that will work, but pissed would be better. So yeah, you’ll have to work onthat.”

“You want me to be pissedoff?”

“I want you to seem pissed off. At least.”

She took a deep breath, then blew it out slowly. “What are you talking about?”

“I’ll explain later. When we can talk it out. Alone.”

That talking alone thing again. She really didn’t think that was a good idea at all. Of course, he’d said at least one of them would be yelling. She’d definitely entertained the idea that airing things out, getting it all out in the open, letting Kyle have his say about what she’d done—and not done—could maybe begood.

But she didn’t want to hear it. She owed it to him. He deserved a chance to say all the things he wanted to say. But she didn’t want to hear it. She didn’t really want to hear all of this either. This tempting, crazy-hot, seductive stuff. Just not talking to him, seeing him, listening to him, watching him interact with her grandmother, would be so much easier.

But maybe she didn’t deserveeasy.

And besides, as he’d said, there was no way she was going to be able to avoid him entirely while she was here. It was Sapphire Falls. And he was a part of her grandmother’s life. As her doctor andmore.

Hannah finally nodded. “Fine. Explain later.”

“Now look pissed off and stomp around me and into the house and tell them how annoying and immature Iam.”

She frowned. “Why?”

“Later.”

She huffed out a breath. “Well, I’m not pissed off. Don’t worry. I’ll just…go change and…find you later.”

“Yes, do that. But you need to be pissed offnow.”

She didn’t understand this. “But I’mnot.”

He sighed. “Okay. But you’re going to have to work on your acting after this.” Then he lifted the hose and doused her with water.

And not just a splash. Not just a spray of water over her legs and feet. This was a full blast of water that started at her hair and drenched her from head totoe.

And it was freaking freezing.

“Kyle!” She wiped the water from her eyes and glared at him. “What thehell?”

“Just like old times,” he said with agrin.

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