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She stepped inside, eying me. I shut the door behind her and eyed her back. She was wearing a Katy PerryCalifornia GurlsT-shirt in her continued dedication to living in the past. With jean cutoffs.
“You took a shower for me?” she said, like she found that strange or something. Maybe she thought it oozed presumption.
“I just got back from the gym.”
She frowned, like I was making that up or something. “You have a gym right here.”
“I have a few gyms. I’m training for a fight. It’s a full-time gig.”
She eyed my gym area with suspicion.
“What’s wrong?” I asked her. “Seemed like you wanted to talk to me about something.”
“What?” she looked at me, distracted. She’d been looking around my apartment like she was searching for something.
Other women lounging around in lingerie?
Gnawed-on bones?
Evidence of the swamp troll she’d accused me of being?
“Your little questionnaire,” I reminded her. “You had a lot of questions for me. Seems like you’ve been thinking about things.”
“I’m not thinking,” she said stubbornly.
My eyebrow rose and she blushed.
“I meant… We’re still enemies,” she said, guarded. “Nothing has changed.”
I stood staring her down, in my towel, getting hard for no damn reason. Other than the fact that she was standing so close to me. We were arguing, about nothing, in my apartment. And she came over here, right?
“So then why did you come over here?” I asked her.
“Because maybe I just want to know what’s going on.”
“What’s going on is you’re stalking me now, I guess?”
“I’m not.”
“First you follow me home from the bar, then you follow me to the estate…”
“I said I was sorry about that.”
She did. And I wasn’t here to make her feel bad about it. I was curious why she did it, though. “What is it you want to know, Jolie?”
“I guess… It’s just that… What we did the other night was…”
“Fantastic?” I filled in for her when she seemed short on words.
“I just don’t understand how it can be like that when we don’t like each other,” she said in a frustrated burst.
I almost laughed, but stopped myself. Because she was obviously serious. Which was maybe one of the things Ididlike about her.
Strange.
She truly didn’t seem to understand a fucking thing about what was going on between us, did she.
It was sweet.
