Conventionally Yours (True Colors, #1)

by Annabeth Albert

Did having constant flashes of Conrad kissing someone mean that I wanted to kiss him myself?

I wasn’t sure I wanted a few nice gestures moving him into some jiggly gray area where I started noticing the way his hair swooped forward or the way he bit his lip when he concentrated.

This Alden, the joking one who understood far more than I’d ever thought possible, was so much more appealing than the cranky rival snapping cards down, and I honestly wasn’t sure what to do with this transformation.

Conrad became more excited, like a little kid on a field trip. It was sort of…cute.

Part of me apparently didn’t like the thought of Conrad having a crush on someone, even some race car driver I’d surely never heard of. Which was patently ridiculous. I had no business caring who he crushed on.

he felt…right tucked next to me. Too right.

Pray away the gay,

thanks to having had Alden on my lap, the only thing I was hungry for was something I shouldn’t want and couldn’t have.

You’re cute when you win, that’s all.

Silly was good. Silly would allow me to regain a grip on my sanity, remember all my very good reasons for not doing something truly ridiculous like kissing Alden’s neck. But man, how I wanted to.

The more he drank, the more I was desperate for one of the kids to run outside, aliens to land, planets to collide, anything to distract me from my sudden obsession with his mouth.

“I’m going to show you stars. I promised, remember?”

that’s why I l—like you.

For the first time, maybe ever, I had something I liked more than Odyssey. Him. Us. The private moments we’d shared.

that loomed the next day, could wait. Him. Me. Us. It was exactly that simple after all.

so I kissed him again, long and slow and sweet. I tried to use my mouth to tell him that he wasn’t the only one who felt that way. Maybe we’d both already won.

This was my guy, and I wasn’t letting go, not until I had to.

His blush said he was still unsure about believing me, but his kiss said he wanted to, and that was enough for me.