Forgiving Eve: A Novel by Kathryn Hewitt

Author:Kathryn Hewitt [Hewitt, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-04T05:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-TWO

“You are such a bitch.”

I just rolled my eyes. This was a tired routine.

“Yeah, I’m a bitch. Got it,” I forced myself to respond.

“No, you are. You are freaking tall and thin, and have a great rack. And you are offering all of it to that loser Jack. I just can’t look at you right now.”

“I’m not offering it to Jack. It’s not like that and you know it, Lei.”

“Well, yeah, but only because you guys have no privacy. Just imagine if we were normal…you’d have jumped his bones long ago.”

Would I have?

“Lei, cut it out. Let’s just finish our assignment and then we can go to bed.” I was bone tired. Jack had disappeared again and I hadn’t gotten any sleep for the past few days.

“You just want to go to bed…with Jack.” She smiled smugly at me.

She was right.

“Jack’s gone Lei, in case you haven’t noticed the current vacancy in the bunk.” I rolled my eyes.

“I’m back, baby.” I felt Jack’s arms encircle me from behind.

“Don’t call me that.” I didn’t even look at him. I was too annoyed and too exhausted to do this right now.

“Sorry.” He just held me tighter. “You guys are nerds. I can’t believe you’re still up doing homework.”

“Yeah, well some of us can’t get away with doing whatever we damn well please.” There was no fire behind what I said as I sank back against his body.

“I missed you,” I whispered.

“I know, me too,” he said quietly.

“You guys are disgusting.” Leila bolted off.

I couldn’t help but laugh. Jack spun me around and pulled me flush against him, his mouth seeking mine as soon as it was in the vicinity of his. Every time I kissed Jack it felt like the first time. It felt like the first time people had ever kissed, like we’d discovered this amazing thing called kissing and we had to perfect it with lots of practice before we introduced it to the general public. Practicing was good.

Jack always stole my breath. Pulling away, I was breathing heavily but trying to act like I was calm. “Jack,” I said, “where do you go?”

“One day I will tell you.” Then his mouth reconnected with mine and I forgot that he’d been gone.

As I curled my body around Jack’s that night, I knew I needed answers from him but I couldn’t bring myself to work for it. I just needed Jack and at the moment, it was ok.

In the morning I woke up to a surprise. Jack was already awake.

“Hi,” I smiled shyly at him.

“Hi baby girl,” Jack grinned back. I don’t think Jack had a shy bone in his body.

“Girl? Ok. Baby? Not so much.”

“Ok, I get it. You’ve told me that a few times.” I shuddered. I couldn’t ever be called ‘baby’ without cringing.

“Yeah, so…just, yeah.”

“You’re awfully cute in the morning.” I hid my face and pressed closer to Jack.

“So are you,” I whispered. I was still learning how to do this. I had no experience. Gideon and I had been best friends long before we tried to take things to a different level.

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