Tessa and Elias were now seated in the car. Elias was in the driver's seat while Tessa sat in the front. It was just the two of them in the car, and Elias would drive, as Tessa had requested.
"Put your seatbelts on," he instructed.
"Okie, dokie." She followed his instructions and pulled the seatbelt, but it would not bulge and became stuck, causing her to grunt as she struggled with it.
"It is stuck," she said, still struggling with it.
Without saying anything, he unbuckled his seatbelt and leaned forward, gaining control of the stuck belt.
Tessa let go of her seatbelt and turned to face the front, only to regret it. His lips were barely an inch from hers, and she could feel his breath. Gulping, she forced herself to look away from his lips, but she could not resist the temptation and shamelessly admired them.
