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“Hmm, I think so, too, but first, we need to fix the dressing on your side…it’s come off,” I noted, eyeing the hanging white square of gauze.
“Hmmm, has anyone ever told you how sexy you are when you’re playing nurse?” he muttered as I pumped his hard-on a few more times through his shorts.
God, he was hot as hell, and I couldn’t stop touching him.
I laughed and shook my head. “Considering the only things I’ve ever played nurse to are animals, that would be a no.”
“Are you really going to leave?” His next question caught me off guard. We went from playful and close, to sudden, jagged tension.
My hand loosened on him, and I looked up and caught his blue gaze. So, hehadheard my dad’s comment this morning about California.
“What? Where is that coming from?”
“I need to know. It sounds like your parents are cool with it…so does that mean you’re really going? You really won’t be at HHU?”
I swallowed the sharp pain that blossomed in my gut at the thought.
“Disappointed? You’ll have to find someone else to torment.” I was going for teasing, but it wasn’t turning out that way at all.
After everything that had happened between us, I couldn’t pretend that Cayden and I were anything ordinary. Whatever was between us at this point could only ever be rare and special. We weren’t only each other’s firsts, but I’d seen the guy drop to his knees and write a word into his skin for me. He’d never be just a normal person to me, and I suspected that I couldn’t be that to him either. I wasn’t sure where that left us.
“When were you going to tell me?” he wondered.
“You already knew. You knew first, remember?”
“I thought your dad would stop you. I thought you parents finding out would kill it dead and you’d be going to HHU instead.”
“Really?”
“Really. Why else did you think I told him?” Cayden said the last words without remorse.
I stared at him. There was so much to unpack in that sentence, I didn’t even know where to start.
“You told him? You mean you put my journal out there, and he read it,” I clarified.
Cayden shook his head. “He wasn’t getting it. He never read the journal, so… I told him,” he confessed.
“You dickhead,” I protested after a moment and pushed at his chest.
He didn’t budge even an inch but simply nodded, agreeing with me.
“Why would you do that? You wanted to mess up my future that badly?”
He nodded again. “Yes. I wanted to mess up your future and keep you here. I wanted you to be stuck with attending HHU for the next four years.”
Something about his look stole my breath. “Because you were mad at me? You wanted to bully me all through college?”
He shook his head slowly.
“Then why?”
He took a second to answer. “I pretended it was because I was mad at you. I tried to make myself believe it, but that’s not the reason.”
My mouth was drier than hell right now, my voice only a croak. “It’s not?”
He shook his head again.
“Then why?”
