Sidelined by Marquita Valentine

Author:Marquita Valentine [Valentine, Marquita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: older brother's best friend, Contemporary Romance, sports romance, hot romance, steamy romance
Publisher: Valentine Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-01-22T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Layton

WE’RE STANDING AT THE door, though still inside with it closed, making small talk while I try to think of something that will get him to kiss me before I leave.

It’s for the team, after all.

Yeah, right. It’s for you.

And the team.

“I hope you didn’t pack up your cake. I’m guilty of midnight snacking on the night before the game,” he says, and I laugh at his confession.

“The rest is in the fridge. You can’t leave cream cheese icing sitting out at room temperature.” I touch his arm, letting my fingers tiptoe down to his wrist to lace my fingers in his. “Thanks for being such great company. Talking to you makes me feel better about things. Puts them into perspective.”

He doesn’t reply at first. His eyes are on our hands. “What are you doing?”

“Holding your hand. Isn’t that, like, first base?”

His head snaps up, blue eyes flaring. “Not where I come from.”

“Are things that different in South Boston?”

“For a rich girl like you and guy like me, yeah.”

Ugh. I hate it when he puts a financial wall between us. I don’t think about how much money he has now, or how much money he didn’t have growing up... which might be why he does say stuff like that, to remind me I shouldn’t take things for granted.

“Let’s pretend I’m not a rich girl, that I’m just a—a, what would you call a girl like me back home?”

“Hoodsie.”

Did he just say they call women sweatshirts...? “A what?”

“Hoodsie.” He lifts his brows in a way that makes him look shy. “It means a hot woman.”

“Okay. Let’s pretend I’m a hoodsie standing on the street near your house. Would you come talk to me?”

“Yeah.”

“What would you say to let me know you wanted to do more than just hold my hand?” I bring his hand between us, resting it against my chest. My pulse jumps and pounds. “I know I’d be excited to see you walking my way, looking so fine in your grey sweatpants and black t-shirt. The way your shoulders fill it out and your arms bulging with those very sexy veins from working out so hard... Do you feel my excitement, Aiden?”

“LT, this isn’t...” He growls in his throat. “What are you doing to me?”

“Nothing but flirtin’.” I set my bag on the floor with my free hand, and place my palm against his chest. His heart is beating like mad. I smile with the knowledge. “What would you say, Aiden?”

“Fuck.” He clears his throat. “I’d say...”

“Yes.” I push up on the balls of my feet. “Whatever you’d say, I’d say yes.”

He spins me around, pushing me up against the door and taking my mouth with a ferocity that leaves me breathless.

“I’d say I’d like to take you out.”

“Yes.” I find his lips again, nibbling on the bottom one.

“Later, when I had you in my car, I’d tell you how beautiful you are... how I’d been dreaming about you. How damn hot you looked in your cheerleading outfit, shaking your pom-poms at me.

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