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“Olivia.” The name drifts softly across the space between us, and I hum quietly as I roll it around in my head, trying it out there first.
Her brown eyes drop, following the movement, and she snorts a laugh. I don’t think a girl has ever snorted in front of me. It’s oddly…endearing?
“Has anyone ever been able to tell you no?” she asks on a whisper.
“Never.”
“Well, I guess there’s a first time fo...
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I stare down at the exceptionally large hand covering my torso, keeping me sturdy, and a shiver of anticipation dances down my spine at the words whispered against my ear.
I watch that smug smile melt right off his handsome face before it disappears behind the door I slam.
Once I got through a moment of stunned silence, I couldn’t wipe the grin off my face.
“You’re a goddamn masterpiece. I could just take you home and cuddle you all night long on my couch. What’s that term—Netflix and chill?”
“Do you turn down challenges, as well?”
“I know that’s meant to be a compliment, but it irritates me further. This is clearly just a fun game to you because I turned you down last weekend. I’m a human being with feelings who has zero desire to be objectified on national television.”
“I like when you smile,” he murmurs. “And laugh. It makes me want to smile too.”
He does, however, have a strawberry blonde with legs that go straight to heaven glued to his side, her glossy black nails raking slowly down his back. He leans his ear toward her mouth as she presses up on her high heels, whispering to him, and my stomach involuntarily sinks at the smile he flashes her.
“Yeah, they’re, like, here.” I chop a hand across Olivia’s torso, then raise my hand as far above her head as I can reach. “And you’re way up here.”
You can have anybody you want, Carter.”
A chuckle rumbles around me as Carter rests his chin on top of my head. “Cutest fucking mittens I’ve ever seen.”
“Oh, Carter?” I call, and his mouth quirks as he watches me. “I went a hundred and eight games undefeated in university.”

