Page 76 of The Betrayal You Serve

"Tell him you're busy at a party for two." His lips brush up my neck, sending goose bumps skating across my skin.

"I thought you were warming the food?"

"I was, but then I remembered that you taste better."

"Food, Kane," I demand, shaking him off. He complains but soon picks up the bag again and takes it to the counter while I tell Leon that I'm in Rosewood.

I also shoot my mom a message because if anyone can help right now, then it's her.

Placing my cell back in my purse, I head for the bathroom.

"I hope you're hungry," he says when I emerge and I get a look at the amount of food he's laid out on the table.

"I thought it was a party for two, not the whole street."

"I've got a long night planned," he deadpans, pulling my chair out for me like the gentleman he most definitely is not.

"Thank you." I sit down and take in the wine glass. "Wow, this is fancy seeing as you didn't even know I was going to be here."

"What makes you say that?" he asks with a smirk.

"Your face when you walked in was a dead giveaway."

"I thought I was spending the weekend with Kyle."

"They totally played us."

"I'm not complaining. I wanted to tell you all this last night," he says, reaching across the table to take my hand in his.

"Speaking of last night." I raise a brow in curiosity. "When I last—"

"I left about two seconds after you did." I stare at him. "Alone. I actually followed you all the way back to your dorm."

"To make sure I didn't go home with them?"

"Partly, yes."

"That was a mistake that won't be repeated. I swear. But you can't imagine how it felt hearing her say—" I swallow, trying to force the lump down that just appeared in my throat at the thought of someone else having his baby after everything.

"I know, Princess," he says, holding my eyes so I can see the truth within his. "I get it. I want to know something though."

"Anything," I whisper, reaching for my fork, suddenly ravenous now the food is in front of me.

"You and Leon."

I smile and shake my head. I've been waiting for him to ask this for the longest time.

"We were seniors, we were at the Dunn's house celebrating an epic win. Luca had disappeared off with one of the cheerleaders and Leon had dragged me over to dance with him because he had this really insistent cheerslut trying to get in his pants." I laugh to myself as I remember him asking me to help him. Leon was never like his easy brother, instead much more selective of who he spent time with. I totally had a crush on the wrong one, that was for sure. Plenty of times over the years I wondered how things might have turned out if it was Leon who made my little teenage heart beat as wildly as Luca's did.

"I had the biggest crush on Luca, not that he knew that. He'd friend-zoned me practically the first day he laid eyes on me. So seeing him constantly off with every other girl but me hurt.

"Lee and I were both drunk that night, I stepped into him and we danced to get rid of the other girl and one thing just led to another."

"You never wanted to take it further?" he asks, genuinely curious more than jealous.

"It was never that and we both knew it. We were just both lonely and… yeah. Lee and I, we understand each other on a level that Luca and I never have. Even more so since I came back after—"

"I didn't mean to tell him," he says, regret filling his features as he pauses eating.