I fold my arms over my chest. “Answer the question.” He nods his chin at me. “Ask it better.” I square my shoulders and look him straight in the eye. “Sam Penny, do you have romantic feelings for me?” He thinks for a second, and the way his mouth is pursed makes me nervous for the splittest of seconds. “My feelings for you are…strictly romantic.” Then he adds as an afterthought—“And often sexual.”
