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“Yeah, tested. I don’t sleep with every woman that hits on me at the bar. Instead of answering my questions, you kept trying to push me to go out and assuring me that you weren’t there to get in my way.”
“I never said you slept with every woman. I wasn’t trying to test you. I meant it. You could have gone out tonight with her. You still can.”
“And I could still call you and we would still carry on like we have been?”
I want to say yes but the words don’t come out.Because hell no. I wouldn’t still be here and if he had gone out on his date tonight, I wouldn’t stick around. “No. Because I would feel like that would be getting in the way. And I still am. If I wasn’t here right now, you would be out with them, getting to know her better.”
“You don’t know anything—”
Jesus, how many times can this dude piss me off in one night? “I don’t believe you.”
“I’m not a fucking liar, Saona.”
The rough way he says my name should be a warning but I don’t heed it. “If you’re not lying, then tell me the fucking truth.”
He sits and yanks on my hand, dragging me until I’m a breath away.
“The fucking truth is, if I had wanted to get to know Kelsey better, I would have gone to Matt and Lacey’s every time they tried to set us up for a dinner, just the four of us. I would have fucking called her because I have her fucking number in my fucking phone. I would have gone to the party last week, instead of spending the whole fucking night talking to you until four in the fucking morning…”
I suck in a breath of air. I’m stunned and by the frozen, open-mouthed look in his face, so is he. He lets go of my hand and tries to move away. I can’t let him leave after what he just said. My heart is telling me it’s the truth. I straddle his lap. I reach for his face but he flinches.
“Don’t get up.”
“I need to go.” His voice is tight, his tone is determined but he’s not looking in my eyes.
“No.”
He blinks a couple of times, like he’s never heard the word before. “You know I can still get up with you there.”
But he won’t look at me and I recognize that look on his face. He’s embarrassed. I can try to set his mind at ease but that would be worse.
Talking to him won’t do. Him leaving won’t either.
I grind my hips slow against him until his pupils dilate. Then I bury my face in his neck, kissing my way up to his ears and catch his lobe between my teeth. “Tonight, let’s stick to the one thing we always agree on.”
