The Falling of West (Reinventing Alexis Book 2) by Jessica Sorensen

Author:Jessica Sorensen [Sorensen , Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Borrowed Hearts Publishing LLC
Published: 2021-11-11T05:00:00+00:00

11

Alexis

I think I might really be starting to like this whole kissing thing. Like a freakin’ ton. Although, I wonder if I’d like it as much if I wasn’t kissing West. I honestly don’t think so. Not with how easy falling into kissing him is.

Not that the kissing isn’t intense. It’s beyond tense. Blazing. Full of heat. I can’t believe I haven’t been doing this for longer.

I probably would’ve kissed him all night if the house alarm hadn’t gone off.

Panic soars through me and yanks me out of my kissing-West daze. He tenses, too, as his lips leave mine.

His lips part. “Who do you—”

“Nik, can you turn off the alarm?” Loki calls out.

I relax.

“It’s Loki and Nik,” I state the obvious. Although, they’re earlier than Loki said. “We should go have Loki look at those papers.”

Nodding, he moves to step back, but then he dips his head and kisses me again.

“I just wanted one more,” he explains then moves back, smiling at me.

I try to smile back, but I’m sure I look like a riled-up freak with how fast my heart is sprinting. Then I head down the hallway with him trailing at my heels.

Right before I start down the stairs, he grabs my hand and stops me.

“Your brother’s not going to, like, freak out that we were here alone, is he?” he asks, scratching the back of his neck.

I shrug. “I don’t know. I’ve never really been in this situation before. And besides, as far as Loki knows, we’re just friends. Or, well, frenemies,” I joke, but he doesn’t even so much as smile. “Dude, why are you so stressed out about this?”

He gives a stiff shrug. “I don’t know. Adults just don’t seem to like me very much. And I want your family to like me.”

“Well, Zhara likes you, so you’ve won one person over already,” I tell him. “Nik’s going through his teenage angst phase, so he doesn’t even like me right now. Anna is … Well, I don’t really know what’s going on with her, but I doubt she’d judge you since she’s had to deal with being judged harshly before. And Loki’s barely an adult, so you don’t really need to worry about him. Honestly, it’s me he doesn’t really like right now.”

“Yeah, but—”

I cover his mouth with my hand. “No buts. You’ll be fine. Just be yourself.” When I lower my hand, he cracks a smile.

Finally.

“You’re acting like being myself is a good thing,” he says.

I roll my eyes. “We both know that you can be super charming when you want to be.”

He muses over that. “True. I did charm you over.”

I roll my eyes again, this time way more dramatically. “Come on; let’s go talk to him about those papers.”

He follows me, growing quiet again, and part of me wants to reach back and hold his hand. But the other part of me realizes that right now might not be the best time to declare my relationship status to Loki, considering I was home alone with West and am clearly coming from the direction of my bedroom.

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