“I wasn’t panicking” escaped her, and even she didn’t believe it. She had been panicking and he had witnessed it, and she doubted he was gentleman enough to not call her out on it. Her voice, though, was thankfully devoid of her earlier scare. She tried to settle her face into the unfazed expression everyone expected from her. “And I don’t want to kiss you,” he stated bluntly. “Neither is true.”
