Alex Stern

"Call it wondering if you might better yourself," he says, knowing how that phrase has and always might affect her--especially when they're doing something like this. It shouldn't still be so easy to slide into that arrogance, the untouchable, handsome boy in a good coat she'd seen when they first met, but he'll always be there. Somewhere.

Close as she is, it's easy to turn his head, the measurement she already knows--intimately--whispered low and hot between them.