Chapter 7

ARIA’S POV

By the time we reached the apartment, the kiss had already detonated.

I knew because my phone wouldn’t stop vibrating.

Notifications. Mentions. Screenshots. Westbridge didn’t just gossip, the news spread. I unlocked my screen with shaking fingers.

Westbridge Forum-Trending: Hockey Captain Publicly Kisses Scholarship Girl. Could this be the start of a relationship?

There was a photo. Of course there was a photo.

Someone had captured the exact second Julian’s hand fisted in my hair, my body half inside his car, my mouth pressed to his like it belonged there.

Like I belonged there. The angle made it…