Bad Boy: A Stepbrother Romance(25)

I just hadn’t been able to resist him as he stood so close to me, gazing down at me with those smoldering eyes and murmuring sweet nothings into my ear, making shivers run down my spine as heat exploded between my legs. Try as I might to fight the urges and resist him, I hadn’t been able to in the end, and I’d even been the one to kiss him first.

Oh, yeah…I was the one who’d pressed my lips to his, not the other way around.

Everything about him had felt unbelievably intoxicating, and I’d had to work hard to stay on both feet, because believe me…I’d actually wanted to swoon. Finn’s hands on my waist alone had made me so wet that I’d been afraid it would soak through my panties, and I could still taste and feel him now; the way his lips had crashed against mine, the way his tongue had darted inside to taste me. A shock had zapped through me when he’d done that, running all the way down my spine in a sinful line. His fingernails had dug into my scalp as he fisted my hair and pulled me closer, and it had felt as though every part of me was waking up after a long sleep.

All that from one kiss…a kiss that I already regretted with every inch of my being.

Something horrible suddenly occurred to me. My mind had been too blank to even consider this earlier, but I had no idea if Finn was even single now. I hadn’t seen Candice around the hotel at all since I’d moved in, but that didn’t mean she was out of the picture entirely.

Great. I’d become the worst version of myself—the kind of girl who kissed a guy when she wasn’t even sure if he was single. All because I couldn’t resist Finn’s charms.

I was turning bad, just like him.

My cheeks burned with shame. “Um…I…” I stuttered something in my Grandma’s direction, and it was then that I noticed she didn’t have her glasses on. They were in her hand; she must’ve taken them off to give the lenses a quick polish.#p#分页标题#e#

“Are you okay?” she asked. “When you didn’t meet me back up at Dr. Cummings’ office, I decided to come down here looking for you. Then I saw that one of the elevators was broken, so I figured you’d been trapped in it. I’ve just been waiting for you here.”

I exchanged a panicked glance with Finn. Was Grandma just pretending like she hadn’t seen what we’d been doing, or were her eyes genuinely that bad without her glasses?

“I…um…I’m okay, yeah,” I replied. “Sorry for the wait.”

“Oh, it’s not your fault. I was just worried,” she replied. She slid her glasses back on as she spoke. “Oh, hello, Finn. I didn’t even realize that was you. I was wondering why Rory was straightening a random man’s collar.”

Thank you, God, I silently prayed. Nice save.

“Um. Yeah, his collar was sticking up, so…yeah,” I mumbled stupidly.

I felt awful for lying to my own grandmother, but what choice did I have?

“Always such a helpful girl,” she said. “Now, I suppose you never got that Jello, did you? Come along, we’ll get some now. Finn, are you joining us?”

“No!” I said, a little too quickly and a little too loudly.

Finn gave me a strange look before turning back to my grandmother. “Sorry, Mrs. Villanueva, but I have to get to work, so I can’t,” he said in a stiff voice.

I stepped out of the elevator and turned to face him. “I’m sorry,” I whispered, not meeting his eyes. “I can’t do this…I just can’t.”

Then I turned and strode towards the cafeteria, only turning back to make sure my Grandma was following me. Finn was still staring at me, an intense gaze in his eyes, and it occurred to me that I was still wearing his jacket. I was too ashamed to walk back over and give it to him, but I supposed I could ask one of the maids at the hotel to return it to his room later so I didn’t have to awkwardly face him.

As I entered the cafeteria, I turned my head back over my shoulder again. This time, Finn was gone. I felt a stab of guilt for running away from him in the way I had, but I had no idea why I was feeling guilty for that. It was Finn. He was a prick, and it had just been one stupid kiss. It didn’t mean anything to either one of us. Right?

Wrong, the annoying voice in the back of my mind told me. Totally dead-set wrong.





Chapter Nine

Finn



The kiss in the elevator had not been mentioned again, and after a lot of trouble sleeping for a few days, I figured it was probably for the best. I’d be better off forgetting the whole thing ever happened, and it was obvious that was what Rory was doing, anyway.