I don’t think ash ever kissed Kyle, but if you mean karlyle yes they have met before this. It was a few years ago at new years where him and karlyle kissed, karlyle introduced himself as Lyle, and when ash went back the next day to find him he wasn’t there. He was looking for Lyle but most likely forgot what he looked like since it had been a while and since he was in the states I’m sure he was not really in a clear head space with everything that happened with hazel (his ex bf who cheated on him).
There was some drama between him, nick, and Kyle however. I’m not 100% since I haven’t read eggs Benedict (story before dtr) but to summarize basically ash had something going on with nick. I think it was before nick became an omega because ash had started going out with alphas and nick was a beta. I believe he was just a rebound for nick because him and kyle were going through some things in their relationship but got it sorted out.
This leads to ash and karlyle having tension due to the fact karlyle knows about his and nicks relationship and he was likely hostile because he thought he was getting in the way of nick and kyle. So they fought and stuff ig.
Ash agreed to help out probably because it was nick asking and it turned out to be karlyle that he was meeting. That’s kinda why there’s some tension there, ofc that is until he actually gets closer to karlyle.
The kissing does come back when karlyle tells ash to wait for him and that he’s forgotten something. Which leads to them kinda recreating the kiss when they meet up again and ash tells him that he’s been looking for karlyle all along he just didn’t realize it was him.
Idk if that clears anything up I kinda didn’t understand what you were asking but hopefully it helps somewhat
Oh no that certainly helps, thanks so much! I think I mixed up the names Kyle/Karlyle and wasn’t too sure whats going on vs what I thought was going on in the story either so everything was a bit confusing to me. Probably will give this a shot. Thanks againnn!!
I’m sorry I want to start reading this one again properly this time but I have been somewhat keeping up with the updates and read bits and pieces here and there but I’m confused.
Like when this first started Ash forgot theyve met before and kissed Kyle anyway in chap 1 or sth and I thought from the novel Ash mistook Kyle for someone he loved or he kinda used Kyle to replace someone he loved or sth like that. Why does it seem like it’s just straight up a love drama now and the kissing scene doesnt matter anymore???