The Takeover by Cara Tanamachi

Author:Cara Tanamachi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

THIRTEEN

Nami

I’ll make rational decisions about who I date.

BRAIN

You’re so adorable when you think you’re in charge.

HEART

#DAILY INSPIRATION CHANNEL

TOGGLE INTERNAL CHAT

Jae’s lips are warm. And soft. And taste just faintly of Carolina Reapers. The heat blooms on my own lips, a sizzle of either pepper residue or electric chemistry, I don’t know which, but a heat that has nothing to do with Scovilles. Jae, still at first with shock, comes alive, and kisses me back. That might be the most shocking thing of all. Jae’s kissing me back.

The very idea that he’s kissing me back at all makes the world tilt. Like maybe, just maybe, a solid law of physics like gravity no longer applies. Maybe I was wrong about him. About us, this whole time.

Our lips, touching, ignites a heat that runs through my entire body in a way that scorpion peppers never can. My lips feel numb, and I don’t know if it’s the ramen residue or Jae’s talented lips, but everything I thought I knew feels turned upside down. I’m kissing Jae Lee. And I’m not hating it.

I want to. I want to badly. I tell myself I hate it. That I hate Jae’s amazing, soft lips. The way they part, just a little, like a gentleman opening a door. The way he lets me lead, the way he tastes a little smoky, a little sweet, and all amazing. The way every nerve ending in my body lights up like a bright, blinding Christmas tree of endorphins.

I hate it.

Except I don’t.

I just have to dig deeper. There’s got to be something in the man’s delicious mouth that I hate. My hands roam to his hair, his perfect, amazing hair, and my entire body feels alive. With hate. No, with … want. Shivering, white-hot want. Because I want more of this. More of this … More of him. More.

I realize in that second, nothing in the world will ever make sense again.

My eyes flick open as I pull away, and I see an unasked question in Jae’s eyes. But I have no answers. I blink fast, feeling like I’ve just come awake from a deep sleep, like I’ve been under a spell that’s just worn off. There’s only one reasonable thing to do: I flee. I open the back door of the rideshare and skitter out, running to my apartment building before Jae can call after me.

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