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“I can’t live in fear forever, Caleb. We were playing “chicken.” You know, in case you weren’t stalking me up to that point. What do you want me to do? Never leave my apartment? Would that make you happy?”
“If your brother saw what you were wearing right now, he wouldn’t be happy.”
“You know what else wouldn’t make my brother happy? The way you’re acting right now.”
“I’m protecting you.”
“For whose benefit? His or yours?”
“That’s enough, Evie.”
I shook my head, annoyed he was treating me like a child. “What are you even doing here?”
“Don’t worry about it.”
“Do you have a tracker on me or something? How did you know I was here?”
I never expected him to shamelessly admit, “I have pledges watching you.”
My mouth dropped open. “You’re spying on me?”
“I gave Jax my word.”
“Your word, huh? Were you protecting me when you were balls deep inside of me a couple months ago?”
He growled.
“I’m sorry, Mr. Old Grumpy Pants. Did I hit a nerve?”
“Evie,” he cautioned in a voice I didn’t appreciate.
Smiling wide, I threw off the towel and jumped into the pool, splashing him.
“Did you forget how to have fun because you’re so old?”
“You want me to have fun?”
I should have known better, but I couldn’t help myself. I wanted to get a rise out of him. I just didn’t anticipate him jumping in after me to dunk my head under the water.
“Caleb!”
“Don’t start a war you can’t win.”
He plunged my head under again, holding me down for a few seconds.
“You done?”
“Never!”
The crowd began cheering him on, only triggering Caleb to keep dunking my head until he finally let me go.
“I told you, sweetheart, don’t start something you can’t finish.”
“You bully!”
He smiled. “I thought you wanted me to have fun?”
“By trying to drown me?”
