Crew's Pov
She was turning red.
She was trying so hard not to show it but I could see it. The way her jaw stayed a little too tight. The way her eyes stayed a little too fixed on the page. Summer was burning and she was using every single thing she had to make sure I did not see it.
I saw it.
That was the thing about watching someone try that hard to seem unbothered. The effort itself tells you everything.
Brianna showing up tonight was not part of the plan. She had called and said she wanted to come over, wanted to stay the night, and I had not exactly said no. But I had not expected her to sit down in the middle of a tutoring session and start running her hands up my thigh like we were somewhere private.
I should have stopped her.
I know that. I knew at that moment too that was th
