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“Never claimed otherwise.” He pops the lollipop out and I realize he was actually sucking on it all this time.
He didn’t crush it like he usually does.
My blood turns hot and a crazy idea materializes in my head.
Pushing my tray to the side, I lean over and wrap my lips around the candy.
My eyes remain on his as I suck on it. Fire erupts in his blue gaze, but then he releases the lollipop, a sheen of indifference covering his features.
I’m the one who crushes the candy this time, to match the havoc wreaking in my chest.
He doesn’t want to touch me, doesn’t even want to see me in a sexual light.
When he was the one who demanded to fuck me.
When he was the one who lit my world ablaze after years of being apathetically numb.
He really is disgusted with me, isn’t he?
Just like back then. It’s ending before it even started.
24
DANIEL
Nicole has been silent for exactly thirty minutes. It’s not only a record, but it should also be kept in a “warning signs” ledger.
At first, I pretend I’m utterly and completely fascinated with my iPad—despite not doing anything with it. Then I glared at the damn lollipop stick that I let fall to the ground and quietly questioned the object;what the fuck have you done to sour her mood?
Might want to ask yourself, mate,is what it silently communicated back.
Or maybe that’s the demon-like angel swinging on my shoulder.
Finally, I let the iPad fall to my lap and direct the glare at her phone that she’s fixated on as if it’s her new lover. What are the chances that I can switch places with that phone in the next three seconds?
I clear my throat, but she doesn’t even show a sign of acknowledging me, and rightly so.
Thing is, I might have been a fucking arsehole ever since she poured her heart to me, and it’s entirely due to the fact that I have no clue how the fuck I should treat her. If I soften, it’d be no different than pitying her and neither of us want that.
So I played the dick card. Admittedly, not the best card I have, but it’s the only card I know how to play so well.
But right now, it feels imperative that I shake off this gloomy cloud hanging between us. I search our surroundings and soon find a way to break off her affair with her phone.
“Jay’s sleeping in an awkward position.”
That successfully gets her attention and she drops the phone to her side before she straightens him up, then covers him with his Minions blanket he insisted to bring along. He whines, and it makes me smile, imagining him huffing and being a cranky Minion.
“He seems like a deep sleeper,” I say when she picks up her phone again, probably intent on ignoring me for the rest of the flight.
“Thankfully,” she says tonelessly.
“Was he always stubborn?”
She slides her attention from the fucking phone and stares at me blankly. “Why are you asking?”
“I’m trying to strike up a conversation so you won’t get bored the entire flight.”
“We both know that’s not true, so either tell me the real reason or go back to your jerk persona and leave me alone.”
