Watch Your Back (Devil's Backbone, #2)

by Tate James

I had to admit, these parties were letting me live out my Disney Princess dreams and I wasn’t mad about it.

Carter was red, Heath was blue… “What’s your color?” I asked Royce. He shrugged. “That’s one secret I’ll never tell.” I snort-laughed. “Okay, Gossip Girl. Where’s Nate?”

“Here, I’ll put it in writing so there’s no miscommunication.” Squinting, I looked down at the note. I like you. I think about you naked all the time. I wanna be more than friends. I might already love you.

“What if I told you I was the one destroying the pillow wall every night?” He dipped his head but glanced at me through his long lashes. “Because every time I did, you would snuggle into me almost immediately, and I liked to pretend for a couple of hours that you were mine.”

“I’m scared,” he confessed in a whisper, “that I won’t be able to go back to being friends after I kiss you.” “Good,” I replied, bringing my hands up to cup his face. “I don’t wanna be your friend anymore, either.” Then I closed the gap between us, our lips brushing in the softest caress imaginable.

“Squirrel, baby, I can safely say…I never want to be your friend again.”

Fucking Nathaniel Essex and I were scary alike in some ways.