Fake It 'Til You Break It (Fake Girlfriend Book 1) by Faye Byrd

Author:Faye Byrd [Byrd, Faye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-18T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 5

The sun shining on the outside of my lids slowly brings me to awareness. At first, I forget where I am, but the gentle pressure across my abdomen sends my mind spiraling for answers.

Zane.

His bed.

The breaths against my neck are warm and steady as I lift one lid and then the other. I’m lying on my back, and he’s practically pinning me down. His face is buried in the crook of my neck, his arm is across my stomach, and a leg is entwined with my own. Instead of feeling trapped, I feel cherished for one brief moment before I let the worry sink in.

What will he think? Will it send him running?

I shift, trying to escape his hold, but he only tightens it with a groan into my neck. “Valentine,” he mumbles against my skin as he grinds into the side of my thigh. “Jesus.”

I tentatively lift my hand and scratch my fingers through his hair, unsure if he’s even really awake. “Zane,” I say quietly. “Are you awake?”

He grinds into me again and stiffens. “Valentine,” he says again. This time, stone cold reality fills his voice. “Shit. Sorry.” He disentangles us and flops onto his back with his arm across his eyes.

I roll to my side, letting my hand rest on the tense planes of his abdomen. “Hey, no reason to trip. I’m not upset. People can’t control what they do when they’re asleep. Besides, I slept like a baby.”

His arm lifts and he peeps at me from beneath it. “Are you sure?”

My fingers dance across his stomach to where his shirt is crumpled, slipping underneath to caress his skin. “I’m sure.”

His eyes go from light and questioning to dark and hungry. “Valentine …” he breathes, trailing off as I lean closer.

I don’t worry about how he’ll react. I just move. My lips press against his, firmly at first, but then I ease up, lightly skimming across them several times. His hands anchor to my shoulders as I slip out my tongue and tease for him to open. He does. Eagerly. Our tongues twine together, and a mutual, satisfied sigh settles between us.

“Good morning, Zane,” I say as I pull away with several pecks and a soft smile. “Don’t sweat the small stuff.”

His eyes are still slightly glazed over as he stares at the ceiling above him. “I wish it were that easy,” he murmurs, tilting his head and gazing in my direction.

“What does that mean?” I ask, suddenly feeling uncomfortable. “You’re so hard to read sometimes, and then others … I don’t know what you want from me.”

“More than I should,” he responds with a heavy sigh.

He doesn’t say anything further, just gets up from the bed and disappears into the en suite with his clothes for the day. My frustration mounts as I wait for him to be done so I can do my own dressing, but when he comes out, it’s as if a switch has been flipped. He’s back to loving fake boyfriend mode, all the cryptic ramblings from earlier nowhere in sight.

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