Chapter Three
Dammit. “No, I wasn’t.”
She raised an eyebrow.
My cheeks heated even more. “Okay. I was.”
When I looked back, the vine was hanging down lower and Janssen ducked under it, his long hair falling over his broad shoulder.
“You like him,” she said.
The jungle suddenly seemed a lot warmer. She didn’t know the half of it. “I… Uh… maybe. I don’t know.”
I couldn’t tell her the truth.
“Well, you’ll have plenty of time to find out since you’ll be working together.”
And that was the problem I was trying to ignore. Janssen and I would be studying the flora of this planet together while I tried to pretend I didn’t have feelings for him.
How was I going to do that?
Getting to know him had been a mistake. I wasn’t supposed to get close to anyone out here. Relationships led to hear
