Chapter 98

We get out onto the street, and the doorman, holding the door for us, motions to the yellow cab sitting patiently on the sidewalk. Arrick leads me to it and opens the door for me. As I go to slide in, he whips the lollipop out of my mouth in a super sleek, fast move that I don’t see coming.

“Hey! That’s mine.” I snap petulantly, shocked at his sneaky maneuver, but he closes my door before I can grab it, skirts the back of the cab, and gets in the other side with it in his mouth. Smirking at me with that devilish look in his eye, I gawp at him in open-mouthed shock. I snatch it right back, yanking it out of his mouth, and stick it back in mine without hesitation. He looks amused like he gets a kick out of being an asshole to me sometimes, being the highlight of his day and all that.

It tastes a little of him, but I like it, realizing that we just sucked the same lollipop, which could be called kissing in a very vague way. It reminds me of what it’s like to be kissed by hi