No Place Like Homecoming: A Sweet YA Romance (Fall in Love Like a Princess Book 2) by Maggie Dallen

Author:Maggie Dallen [Dallen, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-27T18:30:00+00:00

Nine

Flynn

I pulled back with a gasp.

What was that?

A fire ripped through me, and it took everything in me not to kiss her again when I looked down at her parted lips, her dark and dazed eyes.

So much about this girl was fake, but that kiss? That was real. What I felt was real. The way she kissed me back? That was real.

And all of me wanted more. I wanted deeper, I wanted to know what else about her was real. I wanted to get to the heart of this girl more than I could remember wanting anything in my life.

And that was freakin’ terrifying.

I took a step back from her and felt her hands drop from my chest. Her breath was coming in short gasps, and mine was no less uneven.

We stared at each other for a long moment, and I had no idea what she was thinking, but I saw my own shock and fear staring right back at me.

Panic rippled through me because...this could not happen.

Nope. This couldn’t be happening. I couldn’t be having feelings for this girl.

But there it was. The truth staring right back at me as my heart did a flip at the sight of those green eyes fixed on me. As my head tried to figure out why she was hurting, as my heart begged me to fix it. This girl had made me feel things I’d never felt before. Heck, she'd been doing that since day one, but right now, there was no denying that what she made me feel was...want.

Need.

Maybe something bigger than either of those words.

She made me feel a connection, and a connection was exactly what I couldn’t afford to forge right now. Not when my family was waiting for me. Relying on me.

Not when I was weeks away from leaving this place for good.

I took another step back and watched her blink her way back to life. “Whoa,” she whispered.

I swallowed a laugh as I ran a hand through my hair. Whoa was one word for it. “I, uh…” I was backpedaling. I needed space. I needed air—preferably air that she was not sharing. I needed to think this through. “I need another drink. You want one?”

“Oh, um, yeah. That would be great.”

I bolted into the house and nearly collided with Callie. “What are you two up to out there?” Her eyes narrowed teasingly. “Better not be any funny business because our girl’s already taken.”

She handed me a bottle of water but she might as well have tossed it over my head. “She’s...taken?”

“Yeah, she’s been pining over some guy back home,” Callie continued. Almost like she didn’t know she was reaching into my guts and squeezing my insides.

“Really,” I muttered.

Savannah came into the kitchen and grabbed a bag of chips. “Did she hit you up for a ride yet?”

I blinked. “A ride?”

Willow followed Savannah and now all three of my princess friends could witness my humiliation.

Sweet.

Embarrassment filled my veins and had my racing heart slowing to a dull thud of anger.

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