Page 26 of Imperfect Match (Imperfect Match 1)
“Fine,” I say.
“Fine?” Her eyes widen.
“Yes, you’re probably right. We have a good thing going and I wouldn’t want us to fuck that up because we both just need to get laid.” The next words out of my mouth will tell me everything I need to know on what she’s really feeling. “It’s a good thing I have a date tonight with Kandace.”
Willow’s eyes lock on mine. “Why is that?”
I shrug. “So I can work out all this frustration.”
I watch her chest rise and fall and the heat in her eyes turn to anger. I hit a nerve. A big one.
Now I know she doesn’t believe this was a random mistake.
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Willow
He kissed me.
Or I kissed him.
Either way, we kissed. A real kiss. Not one of those oops I moved my head the wrong way and we pecked kiss. No, this was a full on, oh-my-God-my-panties-just-disintegrated kiss. Reid can fucking kiss.
And after that earth-shattering kiss, I sent him on a date with Kandace, the pretty girl with blue eyes.
I hate her.
I start to pace in my apartment, cleaning up rooms that are already clean, trying not to freak the hell out. What does all of this mean anyway? We’re best friends. He knows all my control issues and problems with men. He’s seen me cry at movies and when I’m in my pajamas with no makeup on and day three of dry shampoo.
Reid knows all the awful crap I do, and I sure know all of his.
He’s a slob who has trust issues, and he drives me crazy. He has no taste in television shows. He can barely dress himself. He can’t cook—at all. He’s only ever been in one serious relationship (with Glinda the secretly wicked witch), which ended in disaster ... not that it was his fault, but still. All these things should be a red flag for me, and yet, since the other night, he’s all I think about.
I’m sitting in a daze on the couch and thinking of him when a knock at the door causes me to jump.
Maybe he’s back! Maybe his date was so bad that he left early and ... no, that would be bad. That would mean I failed at matchmaking—again. Dammit, I don’t even know what to hope for.
I get up and look through the peephole. Aspen?
“Hey,” I say as I open the door and see my sister there.
This evening, she’s wearing a lovely ensemble of what looks like a burlap sack that she converted into pants and a crop top with the word MILK across the top.
She grins. “Hi, sis. I was in the neighborhood and Mom said I should stop by and see how you’re doing.”
“Why would she say that?”
I look across the hall, where Reid’s door is, and my heart races. Behind that door, just over an hour ago, I was kissing him. Will he come by here when he’s done with his date? Or is he going to take Kandace back to his place and finish what I started
?
My stomach drops at the thought of that and then I want to slap myself.
Aspen stands there, looking at me. “I don’t know, she just said to come by.” My sister’s eyes narrow. “Hmm, that’s peculiar.”
Great, she’s getting a message from the other realm or something. “What?”
“Your aura coloring shifted from when you opened the door to just now. As soon as you looked behind me.”
