Page 75 of Bodyguard By Night

I couldn’t stop the laugh. “Decade, huh?”

She hit me in the stomach. “Teen hormones can’t be beat.”

She bounced back unlike anyone I knew. Far better than I did.

“We’ll see about that. That was over clothes. Just wait until I get you naked, Chaos.”

“Smug bastard.”

I curled my arm around her shoulders and dragged her close. “I think there’s a cheap cheeseburger with your name on it inside.”

“Oh my God, yes.”

“Don’t sound too excited.”

“I’m starving.”

“You ate a dozen tacos.”

“That was hours ago.” She wrapped her arm around my waist and we drunkenly hopped around puddles. It felt good to laugh.

To pretend for a little while that this was real.