putting all of that into your head yourself.”
“Just stop talking. You think everyone is accepting like you. It’s not true. They judged us all tonight.”
“Evie it’s not like that—”
“And you’re really going to try and say that you don’t believe you’re ready for the pros? Whatever. Your body is big enough to be a pro quarterback. You won the Heisman. Your career is all in front of you. Instead of being the freaking American boy next door that everyone painted you as, you have an orgy fest at the table in front of thousands of viewers! You make out with Cynthia and then turn right around and slob me down.” Evie slung her shoes on the bed and marched over to her bags.
“I didn’t devour anybody’s mouths or slob either one of you down.” He leaned on the wall.
I seized the opportunity to take my own heels off and get out of my dress. My phone buzzed. I checked it. Five missed calls from Mom.
What does she want? Is she pissed about the kiss too? Did she see it?
“Asshole!” Evie yelled.
“No one will care about some nobody quarterback—”
“You’re not a nobody. You just held a press conference, idiot. Clearly you’re somebody.”
He smiled. “I’ll be nobody by next week and those kisses will be replaced by another scandal from some more significant person.”
“Look at you over there grinning like you’ve accomplished something great. I tell you not to kiss me in front of people and you just do it in front of TV cameras.” She pulled out jeans and a shirt.
“It won’t get any press—”
“Google yourself! Have you ever done that?” she asked.
“No.”
“You have more internet hits than actual pro players, and you threw all of that away to be a big cave man.” She held onto her clothes and did this odd impression of a barbarian, arching her back up, raising her shoulders to her ears, and letting her arms hang out like guerillas arms. “Look. Me Tarzan. You Jane. Me piss on you to tell all the other jungle animals know you mine.”
I shouldn’t have, but I broke out into laughter. Jay glared at me. All I could do was shrug as Evie sashayed those hips past me.
“You’re an asshole! I asked you not to kiss me in public.”
“I asked you to wear my ring. You broke my rule. I get to break yours.” He unbuttoned his shirt, took it off, and also pulled off the thin shirt he’d had on under it. The lamp’s light painted his chiseled chest with a lovely glow.
Evie turned around to say something else, but stumbled on her words when her gaze hit his body. I knew from watching them fight before, that things could go either way. Jay didn’t control many things when it came to Evie, but anytime he talked to her when he was half-naked, she tended to be as easy to mold and reshape as soft clay.
She watched him throw his clothes to the side and said nothing else.
“What?” He moved her way, opened the top of his pants, and paused right in front of her. “We should be celebrating out in New York City tonight, but instead I’m arguing with you about a kiss, the same one you moaned through.”
“I didn’t moan.”
He closed the small distance between them. “Yes, you did.”
She inched back. “Jay, we should talk.”
“No.”
“No?” She raised her eyebrows. “No, you don’t want to talk?”
“No, I don’t want to break up.”
The fact that she didn’t give him a quick response knocked me right into a pool of unease.
Why did Jay think Evie was breaking up? What would that mean for us, or even more important Jay and me?
They stood there, staring at each other for several quiet seconds. There was no doubt that Jay would do anything to keep her, and that she would simply demand that he leave me. I gulped in a thick lump of fear. Odd sensations fizzed in my stomach. It was that weird bodily reaction I have right before my anxiety attacks take over.
Was she really that upset with the kiss or had she been planning to leave earlier?
“You’re not