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I didn’t come here because I wanted to fuck him. Not exactly.
I did want answers, though.
I was freaking dying to know if it was a fluke; that night, all the things I felt, the connection between us.
Was there anything about it that was real?
If it was just a hookup and it was super fucking hot… it wasn’t just hot forme, right?
The attraction, the chemistry between us… it wasreal.
Superficial, maybe. Purely physical.
But it was powerful.
And maybe I wanted to feel it again.
To know.
Was it a fluke? A moment in time?
Or would it be like that if we did it again?
“Okay,” I admitted. “I was thinking about it. And… maybe we should.”
ChapterTwelve
Jolie
Ibraced myself for Shane’s self-satisfied smile. Maybe a little gloating.
But he did neither.
Instead, he said, “Is that what you want?”
“Uh… yes. I think so. I mean… if you do.” I chewed the inside of my mouth. Why was this so hard? He already said he wanted to. And we’d already done it before. There was nothing new here, really.
Except that now I knew who he really was.
I knew the truth.
“But I don’t want you to think this means I like you or anything,” I added quickly.
“Heaven forbid.”
“I’m serious. I’m not crushing on you. We can still hate each other.”
“Apparently.”
“So, then there’s no reason we can’t. But… I have some ground rules.”
He wandered toward his bed area. It was on a raised area of the floor, off to one side, under a wall of windows. “Do you.”
“I need to make this clear that I’m choosing this.” I left my water on the bar and followed him at a distance. “I know who you are and you know who I am and we’re both… mostly sober. And we’re both choosing this.”
“I’m completely sober,” he corrected me. “Other than half of your margarita, I didn’t have anything to drink tonight.”
“I mean, I only had a few drinks,” I said defensively.
