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Both my hands were pressed on the counter and I was about ready to shoot through the ceiling.
Lee was not just a Bad Boy, a Badass or a Badass Extraordinaire. He was a fucking crazy man.
I thought hard about it for a second, partially hysterically, and then came up with something. It wasn’t original but it was something.
“You’re like my older brother,” I told him.
“Is that why you tried to stick your tongue down my throat when you were fifteen?” he asked.
Yikes.
“And sixteen?” he continued.
Crap.
“And seventeen?” he carried on.
“Okay, okay, I get it. Jeez,” I broke into his trip down memory lane. “You said you thought of me like your younger sister.”
“I lied.”
My eyes bugged out at this piece of news.
“What?”
“I was into some serious shit back then,” he replied. “Depending on the assignment, I didn’t know if I’d come home breathing and in one piece. You were twenty years old and hung up on me.”
Oh for fuck’s sake.
“I wasnothung up on you.”
He grinned. “Yes you were.”
I was but I wasn’t going to admit it.
I narrowed my eyes and he kept talking.
“I didn’t need any entanglements. I didn’t need anything on my mind but what I was doing. I didn’t need to worry if I’d leave a girl at home brokenhearted because something happened to me.”
I had to admit, that made sense and it was kind of thoughtful.
I wasn’t going to acknowledge that to him either.
He kept going.
“By the time I got out, you backed off. You had a man then and I thought you were over me.”
He shrugged, nonchalant, like he didn’t care, and that kinda pissed me off.
No wait, thatreallypissed me off.
He wasn’t done.
“Then that guy was gone and you kept avoiding me. Guys came, guys went. I figured you had no trouble approaching me before. When you were ready, you’d come to me.”
I was no longer avoiding his eyes or him. I was staring daggers at him.
What an arrogant jerk!
