“That doesn’t really answer my question. I asked you not to hook up with my best friend and now you’re hooking up with half my team.”

Three guys were hardly half the team. “It was for charity.”

“I didn’t realize you handed out kisses so easily.”

It felt like he’d slapped me. “I don’t.”

“Have you handed out any more than those three?”

“No.”

“What about Jacob? Have you kissed him too?”

“No, I haven’t kissed Jacob.” Not definitively anyway. So he could get any ideas of kissing Gigi out of his head.

Axel had a stupid smug smile on his face. “Interesting. So you went from never been kissed to kissing everyone...”

“And what about you?!” I said.

“What about me? I also haven’t kissed Jacob.”

I laughed. “That’s not what I meant.”

“Then what did you mean?”

“I bet you’ve kissed more than three people this week. So...whatever.”

“I actually haven’t kissed anyone this week.”

“Great,” I said.

“Great.”

We both just stared at each other as his words settled in my head. If he hadn’t kissed anyone this week...that meant he wasn’t my kiss thief. Or that he was a liar. And if there was one thing I knew for sure about my kiss thief was that he lied.

I forced my gaze not to drop to his lips. I’d already told him I’d saved my first kiss for him. I didn’t need him to have any more ammunition against me. Besides, I didn’t know what my kiss thief’s lips looked like. I only knew how they tasted. “So you haven’t been making out with Gigi nonstop?”

“I told you it was one time. She kissed me. You saw what happened. I pushed her right off. But our deal stands, Scarlett.”

God, him and his stupid deal. Why was he doing this to me? And I hadn’t seen his whole kiss with Gigi. I’d turned away because I couldn’t bear it. Just thinking about that kiss made it feel like there was a knife in my chest. Could Axel really not tell how much that had hurt me?

I pressed my lips together. Maybe he just didn’t care. For my whole life, I felt like I somehow belonged to him. That our fate was twisted together. At least, that’s how I’d seen it. I’d hoped that one day he’d wake up and see it too. But I was so sick of being his when he wasn’t mine. I glared at him. “Did you make the kissing booth explode on purpose with that shitty pass?”

He chuckled. “I definitely didn’t mean to make it explode.”