“Us?” Danielle asked, her voice thick with confusion. “What us?”
“Well, we just… you know…” he trailed off, the words foreign on his tongue, tangled in an emotional knot.
Danielle crossed her arms trying to mask the tightening in her chest.
“It's not like I'm going to go all ‘girl’ on you, like ‘oh my gosh, I lost my V-card to you, I'm like so in love with you and if you ever leave me I'll just die’ or anything. It was just s*x. It's not like it's that big of a deal.”
She almost smirked at the absurdity of her own words, but it didn’t quite land. She thought she saw him flinch, just for a moment. Seth was good at hiding his emotions, always trying to keep his expression controlled. A slip had to mean something. Something about the way he was looking at her made her second guess everyth
