Chapter 16

Kate snapped her fingers in front of my face. “Dani, are you even listening to me?”

The answer to that was definitely no, but I lied and said, “Yes.”

Kate snorted. “You know those hearts that float above anime characters’ heads when they’re in love? That’s what you looked like. Plus some major heart eyes. I’d throw up but I paid six dollars for this latte and that would be a waste of perfectly good coffee.”

After my encounter with Jacob, things had…shifted. Good shifted. Since we’d both come back to Seattle—and he’d given me his phone number after laughing at me for at least five minutes—we’d been texting each other nonstop. The only reason we hadn’t continued our sex escapade was because I’d had to create a bunch of arrangements at the last minute for an elopement, and Jacob had had all kinds of work-related things pop up, although he never alluded to what, exactly, they were.

“I wasn’t making heart eyes,” I said, wrinkling my nose. “I was just thinking.”

“Thinking about your one