Never Say Never by C.M. Kars

Author:C.M. Kars
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance, new adult romance, tattoo artist romance, fangirl romance
Publisher: C.M. Kars
Published: 2022-12-20T00:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

“All right. I’m listening,” Russia says, turning towards me. What I was really hoping for was for him to take the conversational hot potato and hold onto it for a bit longer before throwing it back to me.

Fine, then, I’ve gotta be the one to take the reins.

I gulp, arrange my sunnies on the top of my head, flip the visor up because it’s gone twilight-ish by now, and pull into the street, getting lost in the local traffic of Alex and Theresa’s neighbourhood. I forgot to input the way home in my GPS so I can get out of here, trying to remember the way out.

“I want to talk about what you said,” I say, glancing left and right, trying to find the street names and signs. “At dinner. Well, after dinner, after we all ate. At the table, to Matty.” Jesus, could I have made that anymore awkward?

Russia snorts, rapping his fingers across the dashboard in a steady rhythm, not so much impatience but what feels more like a grounding technique.

It blows my mind since I think it’s because I make him nervous? Is that right?

I get us onto the highway where my foot knows where to go, so I can sort of drive on autopilot following the signs to bring us back to the downtown core, glancing at him every so often.

“Silence is not an answer, Russia. Come on, just say what you want to say.”

“I’m of a mind that you’re driving right now, and I don’t want to upset you.”

“So you were talking the talk, just lying to the kid’s face like that. All right, all right, I’ve clocked you,” I say, switching on my indicator and changing lanes after checking my blind spots.

“No, that’s not it. You just started choking and it’s not like that did wonders to my ego.”

My turn to snort. “Ego. Ha. Can’t we just have a straight conversation?”

“Fine, I would very much like if you would consider being my girlfriend.” Russia leans forward, turning his upper body towards me, giving me his full attention even if I can only glance at him in small slivers of time. I’m driving, after all.

Silence, the kind that makes me hunch over and ten and two my hands on the steering wheel, staring resolutely ahead.

“Uh...” I say intelligently. I don’t know what I was thinking, like, I asked for an answer, but he just came out and said it, and we’re sharing the same space and it’s suddenly a lot, too much in such an enclosed space with the heat cranked up as high as it is.

“See? You still don’t want to give me an answer.”

He’s right, he’s right. “Didn’t we skip the whole dating thing? Why?” I ask instead, blurting it out and not looking at him.

“Why what?”

“Why do you want to date me?”

Russia settles back into the passenger seat, heaving out a heavy breath that I’m not going to call a sigh, nope, not doing it. “Why wouldn’t I want to date you?”

I huff now, worried.

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