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So I settle for a smile. “What if I say that wasn’t the case for me? What if I told you I wanted that night? That I felt it like nothing before?”
“Then you’d be lying, because your plan was Chris.”
This bloody wanker.
I want to poke him in the eyes.
Instead, I settle with throwing a jab at him. “Maybe he’s still my plan, and now that you ruined it, I have to work twice as hard.”
A flash ignites in his blue eyes. It’s so harsh and fast that I physically stiffen.
“So that’s what the sucking Captain episode was all about? Getting Chris’s attention?”
“Maybe it was.”
“Best of luck attracting fucking losers.”
“Seems I have a record with those.” I flip my hair. “I consider it pro bono work.”
His eyes flash again and he reaches a hand for me, but before it can touch me, his phone flashes and he shakes his head, then turns around and disappears.
Again.
Giving me his back.
Again.
And this time, I feel like I really lost a part of him.
One I won’t be able to recapture.
Still, I lick my lips and the taste of the peach lollipop, praying for a day where I’ll be able to eat actual peaches.
But that’s probably as impossible as wishing Daniel would ever accept me.
Like me.
Want me.
And not feel disgusted by it.
14
DANIEL
PRESENT
My fist clenches around the cup of coffee I haven’t taken a sip from, even though I’ve been clutching it harder than necessary, then I throw it in the rubbish bin.
Fuck.
Bloody fucking hell.
It’s been an hour since I fired Nicole, but the wildfire that’s erupting inside me isn’t close to dying out.
She just had to run her mouth about what never should’ve been spoken out loud. How the fuck did she even know all those details when my own mother, brother, and Astrid didn’t?
Everyone thinks I’m picky with food because I’m hard to please or that I’m being a dick on purpose.
