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My heart was drumming, already. My fingers felt shaky as I pressed them to my knees.
He was so damn confident. It unraveled me.
It wasn’t cockiness. It was confidence.
I fucking loved how self-assured he was. How in control.
I just basically told him I hated him. And he didn’t care. It didn’t rattle him at all.
Maybe I admired his self-confidence, his self-control, his seemingly effortless command of the entire situation, because I’d never felt that in command of anything in my life, even myself, let alone anyone else.
Whatever it was, it was a turn on.
So, okay. He turned me on. In a physical sense.
I just had to make sure I didn’t get hurt here.
I was choosing this, just once, and nothing more. Sex. One night. And he didn’t get to lord it over me afterwards, because we both went into it with open eyes this time. I came here of my own free will. It was my doing. I didn’t just give it up to him because he asked for it in a bar.
“So, we’re agreed?” I prompted. “It’s just one night.”
“Right.”
“And you won’t tell anyone about this?”
“Why would I?”
“That thing you said about upsetting our parents.”
“I’m not gonna tell our parents.”
“You know I don’t trust you. I don’t even like you. At all. You’re rude and arrogant and a total jerk.”
“You really know how to seduce a guy. You’ve got the sweet talk down.”
“I don’t want to seduce you. I’m just being honest with you. The only thing I ever told you that was untrue was my name. Which is more than I can say for you.”
And there I went, bringing it up again. Like a wounded puppy.
“You said you were meeting a friend tonight,” he reminded me.
“You said you’d sleep with me because our families would disapprove!”
“Yeah, I did say that.”
“So was that a lie?”
“No.”
“But you won’t really tell them, right?” I pressed.
“Why would I tell them?” He wandered away. “I never said I’d tell them. I don’t like them in my business.”
Yeah. That was what I thought.
I watched him pace in a slow circle around the room, like a wild animal trapped in an enclosed habitat, restless.
“Then what was all that stuff you said about ‘doing shit that pisses off my family is a beloved pastime’?”
