Unseen Scene, Bobby Kiss Reveal— Book Two, Chapter Five (Felix, Female Bobby Version) (Patreon)

This reporter is a hard one to figure out, but Felix does his best anyway. Both [Name] and Bobby have immediate reactions to each other when they’re near, but it’s like someone’s taken a bunch of emotions and whirled them in a blender.

Needless to say, the smoothie of emotions makes it hard to pick out who is the one feeling what.

But there is a definite overpowering emotion that only emanates from the reporter when she’s around [Name]. And it makes Felix’s stomach clench.

"I just came to say hello,” Bobby lies so obviously Felix almost scoffs at the words. “I was in one of the stores, saw you over here, and thought it was the nice thing to do. That's all."

Felix can’t hold back his scoff this time. “Uh-huh.”

Bobby’s focus wanders only momentarily. “Maybe…”

"Maybe what?" [Name] demands.

An unease settles across Felix at the way Bobby smiles. "Maybe it would be better to catch you another time. It's always better when you're…alone."

The words hit their mark with needling precision. “What’s that supposed to mean?” Felix blurts out.

A sense of satisfaction courses through Bobby that tastes bitter and thick inside Felix’s mouth, and he quickly regrets asking the question, already aware he’s really not going to like the answer.

"Well,” Bobby begins, in no apparent hurry to just spit it out. “We get up to all sorts of things when we're together by ourselves."

[Name] tenses beside him.

Sweeping her thumb across her lip, Bobby savours some imaginary taste as well as all of the attention focused on her. "That kiss last time we were alone…Still makes me tingle."

Felix is so glad he’s the only one with empathic abilities right now. He definitely doesn’t want [Name] knowing just how much Bobby’s statement turns his entire being upside down and shakes it to the core.

He grasps at the hem of his shirt and dares a look at [Name]. "Last time you were alone? When was that?" Please don’t have been recently. Please don’t have been recently. The chant stings through him with desperate hope.

[Name] doesn’t get a chance to respond before Bobby is at it again.

"I better get going,” she says with a dismissive flick of her hand. “See you all soon." [Name] is still looking at Felix, so doesn’t notice the pained look the reporter throws their way that Felix catches, and the expression is gone by the time [Name] finally does turn to watch Bobby leave.

Felix also takes the opportunity to walk away then, needing space to get his heart back under control.

The strength of his reaction to this revelation should probably be proof of just how deeply and quickly Felix has fallen for [Name]—but there’s too much hollowness right now to focus on anything but the fear of what the next conversation might hold…