Chapter 314

• “I want a second take, so I can say I remember that time I made out with you in my sleep.” His husky voice sends tremors through my stomach. I wriggle free, and he lets me go, grinning wildly. He tilts his head boyishly. “At least this time, you’re smiling about it, Bella.”
• I turn to look at him, knowing my face is probably puce from top to bottom, and meet with the relaxed, effortless look on his face. I shake my head and tilt it to the side to match his. His mention of the earlier kitchen kiss in such a blasé way makes me feel calmer. I wish I had his ability to brush things like this off so easily, to make them all out to be nothing except forgettable misdemeanors. I guess when you’ve had more bedroom romps than hot meals, it’s easy. This is nothing to him at all.
• “I can’t be mad about things you do while unconscious,” I lie, fully mindful that this was all on me, a secret I’ll never tell him. He stops for a moment taking in my face, his smile slipping as something registers in his mind, and my insides somersault.