Things We Never Got Over (Knockemout, #1)

by Lucy Score

“You don’t shop. You don’t go to malls.” He rolled back on his heels, looking amused. “That a fact?” “You’re the kind of guy who wears his clothes until they disintegrate, and then you either start wearing something some female relative got you for Christmas or you order the same exact thing you wore out online. You do not go to malls. You do not shop with girls.” Knox moved into my space. Those eyes, more gray than blue today, went serious. “You got a problem with me tagging along?” “Yes! What are you doing here, Knox? I’m trying to bond with Waylay. Everything else I’ve tried so far hasn’t put a crack in those walls. She’s got a poker face at age eleven because of the amount of disappointment she’s already faced. I want to see her smile. A real smile.” “Jesus, Naomi. I’m not here to fuck that up.” “Then why are you here?” Waylay knocked on her side of the store window and held up two pairs of earrings to her unpierced lobes. I gave her a thumbs-up and mentally added “Pierce Waylay’s ears” to the list. “I got my reasons. Just like I got my reasons for not telling you.” “That’s not an acceptable answer.” We were almost touching now, and my body was getting confused between the cold air conditioning and the heat pumping off his spectacular body. “Only answer you’re getting for now.” “This is why you’re single,” I pointed out. “No woman in her right mind would put up with that.” “I’m single because I wanna be,” he countered. I was mid eye-roll when he decided to change the s...