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He frowned. “Why would they mind?”
“I don’t know,” I hurried to say.
“It’s okay,” he reassured me. “They won’t mind.”
“Yeah, okay.” Unable to take the heat of his stare, I dropped my gaze to my bowl. “I suppose they’re used to you having girls over.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?” he asked, tone a little sharp.
“Nothing.” Flushing, I snatched up my spoon and shoveled a spoonful of Cheerios into my mouth.
“Shannon?” Johnny asked, eyes still trained on my face.
I shrugged helplessly.
“I don’t bring girls here.”
“You don’t?”
“No,” he confirmed. “I don’t.”
“What about Bella?” The words were out of my mouth before I had a chance to take them back.
“What about Bella?” he asked with a frown.
“Don’t you have, like, a thing with her?”
Johnny’s frown deepened. “That’s in the past.”
“I’m sorry.” I scooped up a spoonful of cereal, chewed, and then swallowed before adding, “You two were going out for a long time so I just presumed she would have been at your house.”
Johnny turned and gave me a blank expression. “Were we?”
I frowned. “Were you not?”
He shrugged and turned his attention back to his bowl. “No.”
“Oh, okay,” I mumbled, thoroughly confused.
“We weren’t together like that, Shannon,” Johnny explained before shoveling a huge spoonful of cereal into his mouth.
“Then how was it?” I asked. “You and her?”
I knew I should stop rooting for information, but I couldn’t help myself. I had to know.
Johnny shoveled another spoonful of cereal into his mouth, chewed on it for a moment, and then swallowed before turning to look at me. “Honestly?”
I nodded.
“It was physical,” he admitted, looking uncomfortable. “It was just sex, Shannon.”
“Just sex,” I repeated, my words barely more than a whisper.
“Yeah,” he replied. “And before you say it, I know how that sounds. But it’s the truth, and it was the same for her. So, don’t go thinking I’m the bad guy and that she wanted anything more from me, because she absolutely didn’t.”
“And you know that for sure?”
“Yeah, I do,” he shot back, a little defensively now. “She wasn’t interested in me as a person. She was happy with what I could do on a pitch and under her skirt. It was purely physical. And when I couldn’t give her what she wanted, she moved on to my teammate.”
