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“I know.” I swallow hard. “I was just… thinking that maybe I should… you know, if I wanted it to be believable, then I should…”
“Then, you should…” he repeats, though it’s obvious he understands.
“Yeah,” I say.
He shifts up onto his elbow. “You want to have sex?” he asks.
“Yes.” My breath catches in my throat. “For research!” I add. “I want to… have sex, for research.”
Fox doesn’t say anything. He just lies there and listens. Not an unusual pose for him, but it’s crushing now.
“And I thought that…” I tremble, feeling his eyes on my burning skin. “Since you and I have gotten kind of close and you’ve got loads of experience in that area and you’ve helped me out before kind of, I thought that maybe you and I… might…”
My voice fails me.
God, what the hell am I even thinking coming to him with this? I feel like such an idiot.
A stupid, virgin idiot.
His lips twitch. “You thought that you and I would…”
Idiot. Idiot. Idiot.
“Actually, you know what?” I force a laugh. “Never mind. I was just kidding.”
I roll off the bed and stand up. My ankles sway beneath me as I make weak strides toward the door.
“Dani,” he says from the bed behind me.
“I’ll just let you get back to whatever you were doing. Sorry.”
“Wait.”
I reach for the door, hoping I can get out of here before I curl into a fetal position and die.
“Dani.”
I turn the doorknob. “No, I’ve gotta—”
Fox practically teleports across the room and slams his palm against the door to hold it closed. “Wait,” he says, laughing softly. “Don’t go yet.”
I deflate and take a step back, feeling so utterly trapped in myself.
Fox exhales. “You’re wrong.”
Yeah. No shit.
I keep my head down as my cheeks catch fire.
“I don’t have… loads of experience,” he says.
Wait, what?
I raise my head. “You don’t?” I ask.
“No.”
“So, you’re a…”
