"Didn't I tell you I was saving it for when I get a 'yes'. "
Eliza's eyes flew open upon hearing his words, and her expression changed in an instant. Instead of the bashfulness from before, now it was more like equal parts shame and anger.
She glared at him through tear-filled eyes but the boy acted like he didn't notice and took his hands off her body, even the left hand that was pinning her wrists down on the couch's armrest.
The sudden absence of the heat of his palm on her body filled her with a strange sense of loss, and Evan could see it in her eyes.
He could also see the desire to regain that heat, barely preventing his lips from curling up into a grin as he opened his mouth to speak.
His earlier words attempted to quench the flames burning within her, but the fire that had been lit in the girl beneath him was far too fierce to be doused by that little bit of water.
