Page 57 of Dirty Like Jude
“No.”
She immediately pouted, dropping the innocent act. “Oh, come on. It would be fun. I’m an incrediblepassenger.”
Again, theinnuendo.
And I had towonder…
If she knew what I’d witnessed, fucking Jed shoving her down those steps… would she be acting this way in front ofme?
No. She’d bedifferent.
Would she beangry?
Embarrassed?
I grabbed her by the shoulders, right then, and I kissed her, shocking the saucy-teen-seductress look right off herface.
The truth was, I’d been thinking about her, a lot. Ever since the first time I sawher.
Despite my efforts to forget her after I heard her talking about mybrother.
And I needed to know: What the fuck wasthis?
Was itreal?
Was there anything about this that was real, that was worthpursuing?
Or should I just forgether?
It took her a moment to get over the shock. Ashortmoment. But within a heartbeat, she was kissing me back. Her mouth was as soft and juicy as it looked and the kiss was tender,hot.
Then it got hotter as she pressed into me, her mouth opening. It got deeper. Dark and brutal… and by the end, it stole mybreath.
It seemed to steal hers,too.
I pulled back, not wanting to hurt her. Not even sure if I hadn’talready.
I stared at her and she stared at me. Her lips were flushed and swollen. Mine feltbruised.
I didn’t even know how to feel about any ofit.
My head was fuckingspinning.
“You want to fuck?” she askedme.
“Yeah.”
I didn't even know in that moment if I was going to. If I was actually going to fuckher.
I knew she wassixteen.
I knew she wanted my brother. My twenty-four-year-oldbrother.
I didn’t know what I was gonnado.
I justfelt…
I took her hand and we worked our way through the crowd, slowly, together. At one point, I had to stop in the crowd to talk to someone. Roni got pulled away to talk to someone else; she broke away. She got farther and farther away in thecrowd.
