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His tongue parted my lips and invaded my mouth. My whole body went on fire. My skin was burning. I grabbed his shirt in my fist and pulled him even closer to me, even though I knew it was a mistake. He grinned, his mouth still on mine, and his hand reached down. He lifted the end of my tee, and his fingertips caressed my naked thigh.
“Did you think about it?” he broke off our kiss. He was smiling. I pouted. I needed more of him.
“Think about what?” I sounded like a moody child.
He huffed annoyed, and I felt like an idiot.
“About your brother’s t-shirt, my darling Clementine.”
I pushed him in the chest. Hard. He immediately withdrew. The thing was I was already kind of used to him calling me Clementine. I hated that it wasn’t irritating me so much anymore. And I hated he did it just to piss me off.
“I swear, Lucas, if you start singingthatsong…,” I warned.
He laughed at my attempt to intimidate him. I wanted to punch him in the smug face. When I was little, everyone sang that stupid song to me. It was maddening.
“You try so hard to make people believe you’re this badass that doesn’t feel anything and doesn’t need anyone, and yet you sleep in your brother’s old t-shirt. I saw you almost cried when you received it.”
“Get out,” I roared and stepped away from the door.
I felt my cheeks burning with humiliation. I needed to fight back. To hurt him, humiliate him back. The audacity he had. Coming to my room. Analyzing me.
“Are you sure?” he smirked and his gaze scanned my body. I was trembling with rage, but arousal too, and I could see on his face he knew it. “You look on edge. I think you need an orgasm, nemesis. I could deliver. But I’m sure you already know that. Girls talk.”
“God,” I growled. “I hate you.”
“Oh,” he placed his hand on his chest. “You finally got my name right. I thought I would have to put in more efforts than that,” he pointed at the door which I wouldn’t be able to look at ever again. “But I don’t have a lot of experience with virgins, you know. No judgement.”
And then the bastard yawned.
Not that I wanted to draw his attention to it, but his assumption pushed me over the edge of sanity, and I couldn’t stop myself.
“Just because I haven’t slept withyouand your dumbass friends, it doesn’t mean I’m a virgin, Cole.”
Lucas waved me off. “No one in this town is stupid enough to fuck you, Clem.”
Well, that hurt. Because it was actually true. I couldn’t make a guy to ask me out on a second date, let alone have sex with me. But it was also true I wasn’t a virgin.
“Good for me my father doesn’t live here then,” I said, and I saw his jaw dropping. “I visit him every summer you know. I guess there are stupid enough guys in Seattle.”
His eyes searched mine for the truth. I recognized the moment he realized I wasn’t lying. He looked disappointed. In what? Me? He had no problems fucking around and then brag about it.
“I didn’t see that one coming, but I guess I should have,” he paused. “Did you fuck Dylan too?” he asked out of nowhere.
I was too into an inflicting-pain mode to even consider telling the truth.
“Yes. Repeatedly.”
He scanned my face again for a few seconds, then shook his head, and walked past me. He knew I was lying about Dylan.
“You’re a fucking mess, Clem,” I turned around to face him, but he was looking at the door, holding the handle. “And you’re a bad liar. Don’t usehimto piss me off. He’ll get hurt in the process.”
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My birthday came with a huge dark cloud over my head. My father pushed me to talk to my mother.
“Come on, Clem. She’s trying. You’re turning eighteen, and she gave birth to you, after all. You could at least let her wish you something.”
He, of all people, should understand I had nothing to say to her and didn’t want to hear her voice.
