A Demon's Kiss (Young Adult Romance) Read Online Free Page A

felt...wonderful. But a pity kiss—that was the only thing that made any sense. After all, Gage had a girlfriend. He was “coupled” with Addison. And Gage was nothing like two-timing, back-stabbing Seth. Gage was a good guy. And he was honest and trustworthy and all that kind of stuff—that’s why I liked him so much. He was sweet.
    Gage would never, ever cheat on a girlfriend. He wouldn’t do that. Except...he did. So I decided it had to be the pity thing. Nothing else made sense. But it made me feel lame, because his kiss...for me, it was real.
    So, I avoided Gage like the plague. I even started doing my homework at the library since I knew he was unlikely to show up there, as opposed to my house where, living down the street, he showed up all the time.
    So, five days after Gage’s awe-inspiring kiss, I was at the library. I wasn’t just hiding out though. I had a paper due, and I was in a panic.
    “Logan is staring at you again,” my best friend, Izzie, announced for the hundredth time. “He has a thing for you Michaela, big time.”
    I rolled my eyes, trying to concentrate on the encyclopedia—not an easy task. “Me and every other girl at Jefferson.”
    “No, with you it seems different,” Izzie mused.
    I shook my head, trying to ignore her, because isn’t that what guys always say? It’s different with you, babe . But then they cheat on you just like everyone else. It’s not different, it’s never different.
    But Izzie went on anyway, “He stares at you all the time at school, and you said he asked you out at Posh, and look at him over there now, staring at you like a little puppy dog wanting his belly scratched.”
    Ugh! I glared down at my paper, trying not to listen. “I’m sure Lauren would love to scratch it.”
    I snuck a peek at Logan later, though. When he wasn’t looking. He was at the non-fiction secession with Chloe, playfully holding a book from her as she tried to get it away. It was kind of a romantic-movie-type-scene. The kind where there is music playing to show the couple falling in love rather than actual dialog.
    Only—yikes!—Logan felt my eyes on him or something, ’cause all of a sudden he saw me. A smile crept on his face. It got my heart going all twisty and wild and I wanted to look away. Only I couldn’t. Not until I got swatted in the head by Izzie.
    “Are you listening to me?” she asked, glancing up from her notes.
    “Yeah. Well, no. Sort of,” I spurted, wondering if Logan saw that, me getting bonked in the head for paying attention to him. I took another quick peek at him. He was still smiling at me, looking amused. Yeah. He saw.
     
    ***
     
    I vowed not to look at Logan for the rest of the night. And I didn’t. But I guess he kept looking at me. Izzie seemed to think so anyway. She kept announcing it every five minutes.
    “Logan is still staring at you,” she whispered for like, the millionth time. “He has the hots for you, Michaela. Big time.”
    I rolled my eyes. “Yeah, that’s why he’s sitting over there with Chloe Reece.”
    “But he’s looking at you.”
      I glared down at my notes. Can you be held accountable for plagiarism if you don’t do it on purpose? I sighed. “Izzie, give it up. If you want a romance between Logan and me you’re going to have to write it yourself. There’s no book like that on the shelf—anywhere.”
    “I don’t know why you deny it.” Izzie put her hands over my book. “How can you deny it? Look—he can’t take his eyes off you.”
    I moved her hand away. She was being a romantic pest. She was always on me about Gage, saying how he has a “thing” for me. And now she was saying the same thing about Logan. Funny how I’d only had one boyfriend my entire life (and he was a major loser) yet Izzie somehow thought all these hot guys had secret “things” for me.
    I glanced over to where Logan had been sitting. He was gone. “Yeah, he can’t take his eyes off me,” I muttered.
    “Well—”
    I felt