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I shift so I can roll to my back, looking up at Cade.
Taking him in for the first time today.
His hair is a mess.
His cheeks and chin are shadowed.
His eyes are heavy with sleep.
And the way those eyes are looking down at me…
It makes a girl hope.
Makes a girl long.
It’s too fast.
Too soon.
Too good to be true.
But he’s already proved me wrong more than once.
He’s proving to be the good guy he said he wanted to be.
He wants to be my good guy.
“Why are you here?” I ask quietly.
Cade stares down at me before bringing his hand to my jaw, his thumb brushing just under my lip. “I told you last night. Let me be your guy.”
“But why?”
“I can’t explain what I feel when I’m around you, Dylan. It’s way too soon to say it’s love—”
I scoff at that. Yeah. Way too soon. If I were to add up the hours I’ve spent with Cade, it wouldn’t even amount to two days.
That was the definition of too soon.
“…but when I’m not with you, I’m unsettled. Not even three days without you, and I just wanted to be back here. I would have jumped set sooner or later, and the Grant fiasco was just a convenient reason for it to happen sooner.”
At Grant’s name, I swallow hard. “Speaking of that…”
Cade’s eyes are locked on mine, as he waits for me to continue. “B-because,” I stammer, then take another deep breath. “Because of everything that’s come to light, I’m afraid that the baby might not be Grant’s. I don’t…I don’t know who the father is.” That thought terrified me.
What did Grant do?
Drug me?
Pass me off to whoever wanted to fuck me?
Did they have rules at these parties? Obviously if there was a condom rule, it wasn’t followed. If there was one saving grace from everything, it was that my blood panel remained clean. God, I couldn’t even imagine. Pregnant with some sexually transmitted disease. That wouldn’t have been it.
I couldn’t have—
“Hey,” Cade says, squeezing my chin. “Come back.”
I didn’t even realize my eyes had glazed over until I refocused on Cade.
“If you think I judge you based on something you had zero control over, I need to prove to you I’m not that man. I don’t. I don’t judge you, I don’t think less than you. If anything, I think this is great news. You can go to the public with your story, Dylan. You can tell the world that they can go fuck themselves for being the bastards that they are, saying you were someone you weren’t.” His face is flushed, and I can’t help but feel endeared toward this man.
He’s angry for me.
Less than two days total or not, I could…
Hell, I could fall in love with this man.
And the thought doesn’t scare me. Not even a little bit.
