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Making my decision, I headed towards my car to get it over with.
As soon as I approached, I asked, “What do you want, Ross?”
“Same thing I wanted yesterday,” he replied. “I want to talk.”
I opened the driver side door to my car, then tossed my bag and purse inside. Leaving the door opened, I turned to face him again “You already apologized,” I reminded him. “What else more is there to say?”
Those blue eyes of his peered down at me. “Why don’t we address that little comment you made yesterday about how those two weeks had been nothing but fucking?”
“Why?” I asked. “What’s the point?”
“I want to know why you said it,” he replied. “Especially, when we both know that it’s not true.”
“I still don’t see what difference it makes, Ross,” I told him. “What are you trying to do here? You’ve apologized. You’ve explained. Christ, what more do you want?”
“But I haven’t explained,” he argued. “Not with enough detail to make you forgive me.”
My head reared back. “Forgive you?” I choked out. “Why on earth do you need or even want my forgiveness for? We weren’t friends before we met at that party, so we certainly can go on with our lives continuing to not be friends.”
“I don’t want to be friends,” he snapped, that patience he reputedly had all gone. “I’m here to make things right. I’m here for a second chance.”
This conversation wasn’t going like Delta had predicted. I started shaking my head. “No,” I rushed out. “No. You don’t get to do that.”
“Do what?” he asked as he began crowing my space.
“You don’t get to ghost me, then treat me as if I don’t exist, then come back with an apology and the right to ask for more,” I replied, doing my best to hold in all my emotions. “If you want to apology, fine. If you want the opportunity to explain, fine. However, that’s where it stops. You don’t get to ask for more.” I did my best to step back, but I was trapped between the crook of the opened door and his body. “Quite frankly, you didn’t deserve the chance to apology and explain in the first place.”
“Sutton, it’s not that simple-”
“That’s where you’re wrong,” I interrupted. “Treating people right should be the simplest thing ever. When you care about a person, treating them right should be nothing but simple.”
Ross straightened to his full height, and I couldn’t lie and say it wasn’t sexy to see the shift in him. Alpha males were the sexiest thing ever, and there was no arguing the point. “I fucked up,” he repeated. “I fucked up, and I own that. However, that doesn’t mean I’m walking away from this. That doesn’t mean I’m walking away fromyou.”
I let out a dark laugh. “Do you honestly think I’m going to give you the opportunity to fuck with my feelings again? Do I look stupid? Do I look desperate?” Before he could comment, I kept going. “I get that you’re Ross Carmichael, and that most girls would choose you over their self-esteem, but I’m not one of those girls.”
“Well, unfortunately for you, I don’t want any of those other girls,” he snapped. “I wantyou.”
His audacity was killing me. “Youhadme, Ross,” I practically screamed. “You hadallof me. I gave you…Christ, I can’t even think about all the things I gave you without feeling the humiliation of my feelings for you.” The tears were threatening to come, but I held fast. “You’re out of your mind if you think I’m stupid enough to make the same mistake twice.”
Ross crowded me some more. “That’s what you’re not understanding, Sutton,” he bit out. “It wouldn’t be a mistake.”
Before I could comment on that, his phone rang, and he swore under his breath. However, this was perfect. If he answered, then that said it all. If he didn’t, then I was fucked because he was putting this argument with me ahead of whatever else he had going on.
Ross reached into his pocket, and my stupid heart dropped.
I knew his apology was shit.
I was just about to tell him exactly what I thought about him, but instead of pulling his phone out of his pocket to answer the call, Ross pulled it out long enough to silence it. He slipped it back in his pocket, and I’d never felt so weak for the hope that bloomed in my chest.
God, females were stupid.
When his phone began to ring again, I realized that it could actually be an emergency, so basic human compassion got the best of me. “Shouldn’t you answer that?”
“No, I shouldn’t,” he snapped, and I wasn’t sure where all the irritation was coming from. Was it from me or the phone call?
“What if it’s an emergency?”
Ross dark blonde brows drew inward. “The only emergency in my life right now is this fucking conversation, Sutton,” he growled. “Now, I get that I fucked up. I get that what I did was an asshole thing to do. Still, I’ve apologized and have explained.”
