chapter 16
Mandi
“Did I tell you how sexy you look tonight?”
“Only about a gazillion times.” I inhaled Nic’s delicious cologne as he held me close to him. Could this night be any more perfect? “But I don’t mind hearing it again.”
He shivered as I whispered the words into his ear. I liked this new Nic. Since the brunch debacle and his announced emancipation from his family, he’d been more attentive to me than ever before. Though most people wouldn’t count it as moving out when he was “roughing it” in his parents’ two bedroom, two bath pool house. And the fact that his mother continued to put money into his personal checking account didn’t exactly spell freedom either. But the money did come in handy because he went all out for prom. He had invited Cody and Cassie to join us and paid for
