Chapter 103

Levi

I look up at Lauren, drinking in her beautiful face and her shining eyes. She leans in closer and closer to me and I find myself sighing, relaxing against the bed, waiting for her lips to touch mine.

“Levi. . . .” she whispers, her hands gently cupping my face.

I don’t know if that is her way of asking permission, but I can definitely see the hint of uncertainty on her face. And to answer her, I reach up and touch her cheek, running my thumb gently across her lips.

She gasps softly, her eyes glazing over with an expression that looks like desire. It melts everything inside me. All the worry, all the pain, all the resentment.

And before I know it, I’m already putting my hand on the back of her neck to pull her into a kiss.

But that’s when we hear footsteps coming up the stairs and a familiar voice calling out, “Lauren, Levi? Where are you?”

It’s Connor, and it wouldn’t take him long to come up the stairs and find me and Lauren doing this.

Okay. I know that he basically set me up w