I try again. “I should wash my hands,” I say, to buy some time before I can ask him one more thing.
Jason just nods, then gestures to the sink. “Go for it,” he says.
Those words reverberate. They wrap around me. They drive me on as I walk to his sink, wash my hands, then turn off the tap.
I hunt around for a towel. Jason hands one to me.
His face is unreadable, and it’s clear I need to ask for what I want. He doesn’t know I’m bisexual. He has no way of knowing it. He won’t make a move. I have to be the one to take the chance.
I reach for the towel he’s offering, wipe my hands on it, then set it down on the hook.
I weigh the options. I could chalk this up to one weird night with some flirty tension. Or I could go for it.
But really, I’ve known my choice since I walked in that door, telling myself I was only here to ask for media help. “Jason, remember when you asked if I liked to gamble?” I ask.
“I do,” he says evenly, his thumbs tucked into the pockets of his shorts. His whole demeanor says the ball is in my court.
I toss the ball in the air, and I serve. “I’d like to roll the dice right now. And I have another question for you.”
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Author’s Note: Jason first appeared as a teenager in ALL IN WITH HIM. If you’re keeping track of book time as it unfolds across that title, then THE VIRGIN REPLAY, where Harlan appears, then this book, you may notice the timespan between the majority of events in that title and the beginning of A Wild Card Kiss covers about a year. But this is fiction, and Jason is a great character and he’ll make a fantastic leading man in his book, so by the power vested in me as the creator of this book universe, I have hereby aged him up in soap opera time!!! He’s aged several years in one book year and is now in his late twenties and ready for his love story, which will be told in THE BOYFRIEND COMEBACK!
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