Page 32 of No Rings Attached
Holy crap, that came from me!
With each swipe of his lips, every thought in my brain disappeared and I lost my sense of reality. And for at least a few seconds, I forgot where we were.
Then a little girl giggled, breaking through the sexy, hazy glow surrounding me.
Drew's lips brushed against mine once more, featherlight this time, as though he were testing me to see if I was okay with what happened.
“This is a family restaurant, Kingsley!” Matt yelled from behind the counter.
I drew in a gasp so fast I almost choked on my spit.
“Hey,” Drew pouted as I pulled away.
I blinked to reorient myself. Then I looked around the room. There were more people here than there were when we arrived. And most of them were staring at us, not even trying to hide it. An older woman at the counter gave us a wide grin and a thumbs up.
“Hey,” I said back to him as I struggled to form an actual sentence.
Nora fanned herself with our check as she approached the table. “That was some kiss. You two really are so cute together.”
“Just so happy to see my girl,” Drew leaned back in his chair and for a moment, I let myself enjoy the charade.
I knew Nora was being sweet, but her words hit me like a bucket of cold water. Drew had only kissed me because we had an audience.
I needed to stop thinking he was attracted to me. He was a good guy and only doing his due diligence to make sure the town thought we were together.
That kiss, whichholy molywas so freaking amazing, wasn’t real.
Just like our relationship. He didn’t do it because he had this overwhelming desire to make out with me. Did he?
Of course not. What we had was fake, and I couldn’t forget that and fall for the illusion like the people sitting at the tables surrounding us had.
Nora placed the check on the table in front of Drew. “Whenever you’re ready.”
“Thank you,” I said, and reached for it.
Drew snatched it out of my hand. “I took you out for lunch. I’ll pay for it.”
“What? Drew, no.” I lowered my voice. “You’re already doing so much for me. This is theleastI can do.”
He stood before I could grab the bill from him and winked at me.Damn it. I hated to be indebted to anyone, and even though this was small, the scale between us was nowhere near balanced.
I grabbed my purse, waved goodbye to Nora and Matt, and followed Drew out the door after he paid.
“You can’t keep doing stuff like that,” I muttered so only he could hear.
His body tensed, and he threw a worried look my way. I hated seeing how his brow furrowed and the lines that appeared around his eyes. “The kiss, or paying for lunch?”
“What? Oh.” I waved my hand toward the diner. “For lunch. We’re going to need some PDA when we’re out or no one will buy our story, but you can’t keep paying for me. It’s not fair.”
I wasn’t about to tell him that had been one of the hottest kisses of my life and there was not a reason on Earth I regretted it. Even if it was for show.
“Fair for you, or for me?” His long strides had me practically sprinting to catch up.
“For you, of course,” I sputtered. Why was he making this so difficult? “It’s bad enough that you’re not getting anything from this.”
I slammed into him when he stopped short, and since I was so busy thinking of how I needed to prove that we should keep things even between us, I didn’t notice until it was too late.
“Umph,” I muttered. My face now squished against his muscular back. I had to fight the urge to run my hands over his body or let them wander to his abs to hug him from behind.
