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Who am I kidding? I won’t sleep tonight. I’ll toss and turn all night long, my skin cold without his touch and my body begging for his oblivion.
I watch him for a moment as he walks down the sidewalk, back to the bar. “Ty?”
He stops, turns, shoves his hands in his pocket. “Baby girl?”
My throat constricts. “Why do you have clothes that fit me? With the tags on? In your apartment?”
His lips twitch, and slowly, they curve at the corners. “Because I live in hope.”
“Of what?”
“That, one day, you and I will be able to be honest with ourselves…and each other.”
Without another word, he spins again and carries on walking.
“Are you telling me in an ass-fucked way that you love me?” I whisper entirely to myself, watching him as he goes.
His words are heavy. Lead weights, they settle low in my stomach, making me want to be sick.
No.
He can’t love me.
I open the front door and stare at the tabby cat that strolls past my feet like he’s only been gone for an hour.
“Well, hello, you dirty little tramp. Where have you been?”
Angus looks at me for a moment before deciding that his empty food bowl is far more worthy of his attention. He meanders to it and sits right in front of it, looking at it forlornly. When I don’t immediately fill it, he turns big, brown eyes on me and stares at me.
“What? You think you can disappear on me for a few days then come back in here one morning demanding food like you own the place?”
He blinks.
“You are such a male. I knew I should have gotten a female kitty.” I huff, stomp across the kitchen, and grab a can of food. I dump it carelessly in the bowl and leave the empty can on the counter.
My phone rings loudly from the sofa and I leap across the apartment to grab it. “Hello?”
“Liv?” My agent’s voice comes through the line.
“Hi.”
“Hi. I have great news! You got the Balfour campaign! You have to be in Mexico in two weeks!”
Holyshititwasn’tajoke.
“Holy shit!” I clap my hand over my mouth. “Sorry. Shit. Oh, shit!”
Sheila laughs. “I’m getting final details now. I will call you when I have them. Then you can come down to the office to look at everything. Okay, I have to go. It’s crazy here. Just wanted to let you know. Bye, honey!”
The line goes dead and I stare at my phone.
I have no idea what I’m supposed to do now. So I do what I’m not supposed to do and grab my car keys.
As I run down the stairs and jump into my car, I question my decision to go to Tyler before my best friend. Not that it makes the slightest bit of difference because I’m already driving to his apartment. My body is controlling in place of my mind.
I park outside his apartment block and take the elevator up. My heart is pounding, but I can’t decipher between the thump of excitement and the thump from Tyler.
I think they are one and the same.
