Chapter 25 Boyfriend Material

• MALIA
• An eerie silence threatened to drive me crazy, but then he broke it in the last way I had expected him to. He laughed, hard and loud, filling the whole room with the warm sound. My chest vibrated, pressed against his, my heart beating faster. I froze in awe, but as soon as I realized the situation I was in, I wriggled immediately, trying to get out of his grip. “Let go.”
• Instead of releasing me, he pulled me in tighter.