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“Don’t poke the bear, sweetheart.”
She rolled her eyes, throwing her neck back and screamed, “Fuck. You!”
I snidely grinned, immediately slamming on the gas and veering across the sidewalk to block her path. Throwing it in park, not bothering to turn off the engine, I jumped out before she even saw me coming.
I was sure I’d never seen that look on her face before. She pivoted around to take off in the other direction. I was over to her in three strides.
Face to face.
She stepped back until she was against my Jeep.
Nowhere to go.
Placing both hands on each side of her head, I spoke through clenched teeth, “What the fuck is your problem?” I lashed out, looming over her smaller frame.
“You!” She shoved me and I didn’t waver, which only made her push me again.
“You’re my problem! Now get out of my damn way.”
I could see it in her eyes, she had gone mad. I didn’t know what the hell I had done to piss her off this bad.
I fucking defended her, and this was the thanks I got.
“I hate you! I hate you so fucking much right now! You’re an asshole, Dylan McGraw! You’re a fucking asshole!”
I immediately fell back, the wind knocked from my sails. She took the distraction as an opportunity to maneuver herself away from me.
“I can’t believe you did that! I can’t believe you did that to me!”
I scoffed, “I would do it again.”
“Of course, you would! That’s who you are! You don’t think for one damn second about me. Not one! Now, leave!”
“Fuck you, I’m not going anywhere. If you really wanted to leave… you would have left already, not bothering me with your bullshit,” I regretted my words as soon as they came out of my mouth, but thinking before speaking had never been my strong suit.
Case and point, she screeched out, “You asshole!” shouting in my face.
I stepped toward her and she instantly backed away, once again holding out her hand in front of her.
“Yeah! I’m a fucking asshole, but I will die before I ever apologize for defendin’ you. Do you understand me?”
“You’re such an idiot. You’re so blinded by your goddamn pride you don’t even see it! You don’t even realize it!”
“My pride? Sweetheart, those are fightin’ words. You best consider takin’ a step back and realize who the fuck you’re talkin’ to.”
She put her arm down and stepped toward me. “I know exactly who I’m talking to, and I don’t give a shit. I can’t believe you did that!” she repeated with the same stride. “Telling me for the first time, for the first time, McGraw, that you loved me to that piece of shit Dee. How could you do that to me? How could you hurt me like that, you asshole?!”
I caught her open palm that was coming at my face again. “I let you hit me once, darlin’, it won’t happen again.”
She forcefully tried to tug her arm away, but I used the momentum to pull her toward me instead. She lost her footing and began to fall forward. Her free hand collided with my chest, giving her leverage.
I hugged her toward me. “Relax.”
Shit.
I didn’t even realize that. I was so caught up in putting that bitch in her place that I hadn’t grasped that it was the first time the words came out of my mouth.
I didn’t think twice about it.
