Page 24 of Fighting Chance
Her eyes blaze. “With you? This is all one-sided and entirely for your own merit.”
“Keep telling yourself that.”
“I don’t have to tell myself shit.”
My grin is devilish as I bend down, my lips a hair’s breadth from hers. “Then why are you clinging to me like you don’t want to stop touching me?”
Her eyes snap down to her hands on my biceps and she jumps back a foot, gasping. She spins away. “You’re insufferable!”
“Whatever makes you sleep at night,” I sing to her retreating form.
Her growl of frustration from the next aisle over has me throwing my head back on a deep belly laugh.
Chapter 6
Layla
BELLA
*photo attachment*
LAYLA
stop
that is the cutest photo I’ve ever seen
BELLA
I found Emmy snuggled up in Kieran’s arms this morning on the couch, both dead to the world
LAYLA
they even sleep in the same position
how come they’re on your couch?
BELLA
Kieran called it a big ‘sleepover’ to try and make it fun for Emmy
LAYLA
I hate to admit this
something tells me he’s going to be utterly adorable with her
BELLA
healready is
he’s going to do everything and anything for that little girl
he bought the house across the road from us
LAYLA
wait what???
