Undone (The Unexpected Series Book 2) Read Free Page A

can’t find anything in this cluster fuck you call a kitchen.”
    Stomping like a kid across the kitchen he pulls out a towel and throws it towards us. His brown eyes find mine, and I see the same look I saw on Thanksgiving when Chase showed up at my house. Hurt? Anger? Disappointment?
    He reaches into the freezer for an ice pack and top cabinet for some Tylenol and starts tending to me.
    “I got her,” Trent growls at Jace.
    “For now,” Jace retorts leaving us in the kitchen.
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    It’s been a whole hour. One whole hour since I almost kissed a man with a girlfriend. It saddens me to think how easy it is to cheat. How one second can ruin someone like it did my best friend. Jace’s eyes haven’t left my body, and it almost makes me sick that he can be so brazen about it.
    Out of the corner of my eye I spot him making his way over to me at the pool table. I give him the nastiest look I can muster up. “Well, well, look who’s decided to stop eye humping me.”
    “I can do more than hump you with my eyes if you want, Noelle,” he says taking his right index finger and rubbing it down my jawline. I lift my palm and slap it away, furious.
    “Don’t touch me, Jace. I’m not that kind of girl. I don’t know where you got the idea that I was, but I don’t like to be cheated on and I won’t help someone else cheat.”
    “Huh?” His hand drops from my cheek in aggravation. “I’m a little confused here.”
    “I know you have a girlfriend and I won’t help you break her heart. I’ve seen firsthand how that can destroy someone. But I’ll help her break something of yours.” I whip my hair around hoping he will finally leave me the hell alone.
    He doesn’t, grabbing my arm and turning me back around to face him, eyes burning into mine.
    “Noelle, I don’t have a girlfriend. What gave you the idea that I do?” His expression is confused, puzzled. He doesn’t look like he is trying to bullshit me.
    “The blonde girl in your car? The one at Starbucks? She wasn’t your girlfriend?” I lace my voice with sarcasm.
    His face straightens when he realizes who I’m talking about.
    “Who? Valerie? No way!” His voice raises an octave. “She works with me. Her car was in the shop so I was on my way to take her to pick it up.”
    Well, that explains it.
    “So, no girlfriend?” I double check.
    “No.”
    “Then I guess I was wrong. I threw your number away for nothing.” I shrug like it’s no big deal but thankful that maybe I can put him into the rotation of suitors.
    “You threw my number out? Jeez, woman! Nothing like jumping to conclusions.” He laughs and then offers, “Would you like it again?”
    “Meh. I don’t know.” I shrug again internally giggling at how stunned he is. “I don’t think I do.”
    Everything comes to a halt as he takes my hand in his and kisses the top of it, entwining our fingers. Pushing me back into the pool table, he lifts my chin up with his free hand, bringing his lips a breath away from mine and whispers, “Yes, you do, but now I’m going to make you earn it.”
    My knees give way underneath me, and he has to catch me before I hit the ground.
    What the hell is wrong with my knees today? It’s got to be the hooker boots.
    “Are you okay?”
    “Yea, I just…I don’t know. Yea, I’m fine.” I compose myself and take a deep breath. “So, earn it? How exactly do I earn your number back and what if I don’t even want it? You’re kinda full of yourself.”
    “Oh, I’m sorry. Would you rather it be you that’s full of me, Noelle?” He asks getting just a millimeter closer. If he moves just a fraction more his lips will be on mine.
    I’ve never encountered such an insistent man. Usually, I am the aggressive one. I don’t like releasing control to someone else.
    His eyes dart to my mouth, and I make a show of slowly running my tongue along my bottom lip. I can see how affected he is.
    “All you have to do is play me at pool. If you win I will give you my