Page 281 of Forbidden Billionaires: Vol. 11
“Something like that,” Axel said.
I turned to see him staring at me.
“I figured I’d also run into you,” he said. “You come here every time we throw this party.”
“Am I really so predictable?”
“Not recently.” He leaned forward, putting his elbows on his knees. And his gaze fell to the number 18 on the varsity jacket I was wearing. “Because I certainly didn’t expect you to be wearing Jacob’s jacket tonight when you showed up here.”
I felt the weight of it on my shoulders. What did Axel want from me? It just so happened that number 18 liked me and number 10 didn’t. I placed my hand over the number on my sleeve as I folded my arms across my chest. “I told you that I liked him.”
“Do you also like August Ward?”
I opened my mouth and closed it again.
“And Billy? And Ryan? And Henley...”
“I didn’t kiss Henley.”
“That doesn’t really answer my question. I asked you not to hook up with my best friend and now you’re hooking up with half my team.”
Three guys were hardly half the team. “It was for charity.”
“I didn’t realize you handed out kisses so easily.”
It felt like he’d slapped me. “I don’t.”
“Have you handed out any more than those three?”
“No.”
“What about Jacob? Have you kissed him too?”
“No, I haven’t kissed Jacob.” Not definitively anyway. So he could get any ideas of kissing Gigi out of his head.
Axel had a stupid smug smile on his face. “Interesting. So you went from never been kissed to kissing everyone...”
“And what about you?!” I said.
“What about me? I also haven’t kissed Jacob.”
I laughed. “That’s not what I meant.”
“Then what did you mean?”
“I bet you’ve kissed more than three people this week. So...whatever.”
“I actually haven’t kissed anyone this week.”
“Great,” I said.
“Great.”
We both just stared at each other as his words settled in my head. If he hadn’t kissed anyone this week...that meant he wasn’t my kiss thief. Or that he was a liar. And if there was one thing I knew for sure about my kiss thief was that he lied.
I forced my gaze not to drop to his lips. I’d already told him I’d saved my first kiss for him. I didn’t need him to have any more ammunition against me. Besides, I didn’t know what my kiss thief’s lips looked like. I only knew how they tasted. “So you haven’t been making out with Gigi nonstop?”
“I told you it was one time. She kissed me. You saw what happened. I pushed her right off. But our deal stands, Scarlett.”
