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“I’m sorry you came all this way.” Looking so hot and fly. “But I have no interest in selling my products.” I point to the door and smile sweetly. “Have a nice day.”
Chapter 2
Griffin
Cobie shoves me out of her apartment and slams the door in my face, all before my mind processes her rejection.
One minute, I’m staring at the exposed brick walls in her living room and the next, I’m out in the hallway where one of her neighbors is beating out to a rap song that expounds the titillating details of a drunken hookup.
“What just happened?” I glance behind me as if the ghosts that haunt this rundown apartment can answer.
No one but the rapper bothers to respond.
“She don’t know I got tested.
Positive.
I’ma still do it and reel it in.”
I rub my forehead.
Turn briskly away.
Spin back to her green door with the peephole and the rusted metal. Fisting my hands, I knock again.
The rapper congratulates me.
“Yes, yes. I’m in.
I’m doing it.
She’s gonna say I’m the winner after I spit in it.”
I have no plans of spitting in Cobie, but it’s the thought that counts.
The door swings open.
Cobie folds her arms over her chest when she sees me standing there.
For a moment, I’m transported back in time to twelve years ago when I was an acne-prone, overweight kid standing before the most popular girl at school.
Invisible.
That’s how I felt then.
Now, I’ve got her attention. She’s looking at me, even though she can’t recognize my face. And I’m grateful for that. I look drastically different than I did when we were in high school.
Cobie…looks the same.
Same wild, untamable mane of curls.
Same smooth, cinnamon-colored skin.
Same warm, brown eyes with an underlying hue of amber that glowed or simpered depending on her mood.
My gaze catches on her mouth and lingers.
Same plump, luscious lips. Brown cupid’s bow at the top. Seductive pink at the bottom.
