Page 391 of Forbidden Billionaires: Vol. 5
Matchmaker - Chapter 38
Friday
“Stop looking at me like that,” Kennedy said.
“Like what?”
“Like more than friends.”
“I don’t know how to not do that,” I said.
Kennedy shook her head. “You’re making this harder than it has to be. It’s like you said earlier, we’ve always been friends.”
“That was before I kissed you.” I watched as her cheeks grew rosy.
“Cut it out,” she said.
“I’m not doing anything.”
“Yes you are,” she said with a laugh. “You’re over there looking all sexy, staring at me.”
I smiled. “You think I’m sexy?”
“Try harder to look at me like we’re just friends,” she said, ignoring me.
I closed the distance between us in the elevator.
She looked up at me. “Matt…”
“You can’t deny that you feel this too.”
“Of course I feel this.” She put her hand on my chest and then quickly removed it. “I didn’t say this wasn’t hard for me. I just…I don’t want to be with someone that isn’t all in. And you can’t be all in right now.”
“I am all in.”
“Except in public where you’re all in with another woman?”
I pressed my lips together.
“We’re just hitting pause,” she said. But her words didn’t fit her actions, because she drew a fraction of an inch closer.
I didn’t say a word. I just stared down at her.
She leaned forward, her lips stopping by my ear. Her hand rested on my shoulder.
It took every ounce of restraint I had not to hit the emergency button on the elevator to bring it to a halt. I couldn’t remember the last time I wanted something so badly.
“Try harder,” she whispered and then took a step back.
Kennedy Alcaraz was a tease. And I was pretty sure I was falling in love with her. “Maybe you should try harder to keep your hands to yourself, Alcaraz.”
“Don’t call me that,” she said with a laugh.
“You know the alternative.”
She rolled her eyes.
And the elevator doors dinged open, ending our conversation. Because Tanner was standing there.
