I’m about to ask her where Finn is when strong arms circle my waist from behind, picking me up like I’m weightless. Hot lips plaster kisses all over my cheek, and I laugh, swiveling to look at Finn. He must’ve been in the house.
“Hey, asshole, what took you so long?” Theo asks Finn, swimming closer to the edge of the pool.
Wait, Finn just got here?
“I got lost.” Finn’s eyes remain fixated on me, and he smacks a long kiss on my lips.
“Where? In Dia’s mouth?” Axel snorts, and everyone laughs.
What was he doing the past hour?
I went back to my house to shower, which explains why I’m late, but he said he was driving straight to Theo’s?
“Love the lipstick, Richards. Which shade is that?” Theo fails to contain his laughter. My eyes immediately jump to the lipstick stain on Finn’s collar.
That would be my fault.
Finn is still wearing the same outfit he was earlier in the woods, so it’s not like he drove home to shower and change.
“Your collar.” I scoff, but Finn doesn’t seem bothered by it in the slightest.
“I’ll be back.” Finn gives my ass a squeeze over my shorts and sets off toward the house to try and salvage his shirt. He hasn’t even been gone two seconds before Lacey calls on me.
“You’re still coming to girls’ night tomorrow, right?”
Crap, I forgot about girls’ night.
Lacey’s been bugging me about it for months. Her birthday is coming up, and she invited a bunch of her friends to hang out at her place tomorrow night. It’s a school night, which means no sleepover, but she hasn’t stopped saying how excited she is for me to meet her out-of-town friends.
“Absolutely.” I nod.
I’ll just sneak off to Lacey’s after the dinner from hell.
To think that at this time tomorrow, I’ll be face-to-face with my dishonest brother for the first time in half a year. Most people go to family dinners because they want to spend quality time with loved ones.
But not me.
What I want… is a confession.