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“It doesn’t seem like nothing,” Mikey said as she kept moving back.
“It is,” Sebastian said as he kept following her.
“Then, I guess there’s no reason why I shouldn’t check my messages,” Mikey said with a heartfelt sigh and a sad shake of her head as she lowered her phone and-
“Don’t,” Sebastian said, reaching for the phone just as her back touched the wall.
“Don’t what?” Mikey asked, moving the phone behind her back as Sebastian took the last step, bringing him the last few inches and forcing her to tilt her head back to look at him.
“Give me the phone, Mikey,” Sebastian said softly, his intense blue eyes locking with hers as he placed his hands on the wall above her head.
“Tell me what you’re hiding, Sebastian,” Mikey said, watching a muscle in his jaw clench tightly as he kept his gaze locked with hers.
For a moment, Sebastian didn’t say anything as his gaze flickered to her lips and had her swallowing hard as she watched his gaze soften and-
Found herself slowly exhaling when Sebastian turned his head as he pushed away from the wall and walked away, leaving her standing there, watching him ram his fingers through his hair as he said, “I’m not hiding anything.”
Yes, he was.
She knew him better than anyone, which meant that she knew better than to push him about this. If she kept pushing him, he would shut down and pull away from her and that was the last thing that she wanted to happen. She’d considered asking Jonathan what was going on, but…
He would only screw with her head. She could ask Braxton, but he had enough on his plate right now. That left Cole, but something, mostly the way that he’d been glaring obsessively at Chloe for the past three months, told her that he probably wasn’t going to be that much help.
So, instead, Mikey slowly exhaled and told herself to let it go as she pulled her phone out from behind her back and-
Frowned when she saw the message waiting for her.
“You want to take me to a movie to get my mind off everything?” Mikey asked, watching as Sebastian turned around only to curse under his breath when he saw the phone in her hand. When he went to grab the phone from her, Mikey pulled it away as she asked, “Are you really trying to get out of spoiling me?”
Swallowing hard, Sebastian asked, “Is that what you want?
Nodding, Mikey said, “I deserve to be spoiled.”
Slowly nodding, Sebastian said, “Then, I guess that’s what we’re doing.”
“Where are you going?” Mikey asked when Sebastian made his way back to her bedroom window.
“To kill someone.”
CHAPTER37
“Told you she’d say yes,” Jonathan said with a satisfied sigh from the closet where Sebastian shoved him after he’d finished wrapping him in duct tape.
“You should have gagged him,” Braxton said, not bothering to look up from his iPad as he shifted to get more comfortable on his bed.
“I did, but he chewed through it an hour ago,” Sebastian said as he dropped his head in his hands and-
She said yes.
Technically, she’d agreed to let him spoil her, but it was enough. At least for now, Sebastian told himself as he slowly exhaled. It was definitely a start, Sebastian thought, only to sigh heavily when he heard their closet door slam open, followed by the sounds of Jonathan hitting the floor with a pained grunt.
“So,” Jonathan murmured conversationally, “where are we taking Mikey on our date?”
“It’s not a date,” Sebastian said, dropping his hands away as he stood up and grabbed the clothes he’d picked out earlier off his bureau and headed for their bedroom door.
“What would you call it?” Jonathan asked as he tried to rip the rest of the duct tape off his wrists.
“I wouldn’t call it anything,” Sebastian said as he stepped over his brother and made his way to their bathroom, where he spent the next twenty minutes trying to convince himself that this was a good idea.
