“You didn’t know him then,” I pointed out, but Ren was unfazed.
“Maybe not. But I do know that he is the most loyal man I’ve ever met. And he’s reliable. If I need something, he’s the first one I call. And there’s no way he looked that good when he was fifteen.”
Loyal? If he was so loyal, he wouldn’t have ditched me the second he went off to college.
But I didn’t contradict Ren, no matter how I felt about Jamie. “Why are you telling me this?”
“Because I think there are still feelings there.”
And just like that, it was as if a bomb had gone off in my stomach. He wasn’t pulling any punches.
I hesitated for just a moment, hoping I hadn’t given him too much ground. “I think you’re reading too much into this. I’m just his ex. I’m sure he’s got a list a mile long of women he can date.”
“And if he actually dated, I’d agree with you. But I’ve never seen him light up the way he does when he talks about you, and you know what that says to me? You should give him a chance. And something in your eyes tells me that maybe you want to.”
Was I that transparent? And what would a chance even mean?
Because Jamie Davis had been trouble for me all those years ago. Now, all that trouble had only amplified. Because now I imagined dark, knowing eyes, and his sure-as-steel grip pulling me against him. The way he would have held me again, had we just…
No, I shook away those thoughts for the millionth time. No matter how sexy his laugh was and how intensely I could feel his eyes on me, that man was trouble for my heart, and I couldn’t start anything with him ever again.
