CHAPTER TWENTY THREE: Two Days
~Zella's POV~
"No." The word came out fast. Too fast. "What made you say that?"
Brynn looked at me. "The way you're saying no to everything."
"I'm just not ready to date."
"You said no to Felix before he finished the sentence."
"I said no politely."
"You said no like someone who already has somewhere else to be." Brynn tilted her head. "That's different from not being ready."
I looked at her and thought about what I couldn't say. That the someone I had somewhere else to be was her father. That I had been in his room an hour ago. That this was technically the second time and the first time had been Christmas night in a hotel room when neither of us knew who the other was and this time we had known exactly and chosen anyway. That *"somewhere else to be"
