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Chapter Twenty-four
Peyton
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“Iknew it!” Henna slapsher hand down on the kitchen table where she’s sitting across from me. “I knew you were lying yesterday. A work friend.” She snorts. “I told Aaron something was going on with you two and he said I was crazy.”
“You can’t tell Aaron.” I interrupt her rant. “You can’t tell anyone.”
“What? Why the hell not? This is the juiciest news I’ve gotten in a while.”
“I’m serious, Henna. We’re keeping things casual. Because of that we don’t want a lot of people knowing.”
“You don’t or he doesn’t.”
“Well, he doesn’t,” I admit, knowing I’ve wanted to shout it from the rooftops ever since the night of Sven’s party. “I think it’s so it’ll be easier to cut ties when whatever this is has run its course.”
“Are you listening to yourself?” Henna leans back in her chair, a strange look on her face.
“What?”
“Since when do you, Peyton, have things such as casual sexual affairs? And since when do you let the man determine what kind of relationship you have?”
“I’ve had casual flings before.”
“No, you haven’t.”
“What about Carter?”
“You dated him.” She shakes her head.
“After we had a casual fling.”
“Not the same thing and you know it,” she argues. “It may start casual, but it never stays that way for long. You’re incapable of being with a man and not forming feelings.”
“So your argument isn’t that I can’t have a casual affair, but that I can’t have one without falling for the guy?” I question.
“Exactly.”
“Not everything is so black and white. Circumstances change when the people involved in them do.”
“So you’re telling me that you’re having amazing sex with one of the hottest guys in existence and you don’t have any feelings.”
“Not a single one,” I lie.
“Oh my god.” She smiles, giving me a look that says she’s got it all figured out.
“What?”
“You’re in love with him,” she accuses.
“Don’t be ridiculous. We’ve only been seeing each other, if that’s what you can even call it, for a couple of weeks.”
“And? I knew I loved Aaron after the night of Sam’s bachelorette party. One night. That’s all it took.”
“You didn’t tell me that.”
“Yeah, and you didn’t tell me you were screwing his hot brother, either. So we’re even.”
