We hadn’t been alone since the kiss.

While we weren’t exactly alone now, with the others nearby, we were speaking privately. A faint heat began * torise in my cheeks. I didn’t know I what to say.

Julian blinked. He lifted his head and looked at me more critically. “Piper...” I he started but didn’t finish. Maybe he didn’t know what to say either.

The moment stretched out. I racked my brain for something else to talk about — literally anything else — but all I could think about was how we agreed never to talk about that kiss ever again.

Maybe... the weather? It was sunny again today.

Ug! Why did he have to kiss me? It took our perfectly healthy friendship and turned it into something awkward and uncertain. I didn’t know how to react around him anymore.

Julian inhaled a great breath, as if he * was preparing himself for something.

“Piper, I'm —-” “How are you feeling, Julian?” Nicholas asked as he approached us.

was instantly lost.

was mostly neutral, but there was a kind of

better, thanks,” Julian said. He scratched at his head, where I'm

abilities, any hurt shouldn’t last for long. He'd likely be fully healed in a few hours. This was the only reason I hadn’t

“Good,” Nicholas said.

T had thought things were awkward before with just Julian and

worried my bottom

Nicholas stood there, looking at both of

I interrupting

“Kind ofl Nicholas

his side and clutched his arm. Se Her closeness to him, while wearing that revealing bikini, made my jealousy rumble in my chest, but I quickly ~ patted it down, reminding myself that I was the one who had kissed another man.

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