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“Angel, you are.”
Yeah, I am. But he doesn’t have to be so smug about it. Time to wipe the smug look clean off his face.
“I’m not good enough for you.”
“Bullshit.”
“It’s true. Wherever we go, people look at us funny because I’m this horrible person who ruins people’s relationships.”
“First of all,” he grumbles, “I don’t give a shit how people look at us. Let them look.”
Oh my. My body tingles in happiness in response to those words. This is not helping me resist him.
He cradles my face in his hands. “You are not a horrible person who ruins people’s relationships.”
“But what I did to Aspen…”
“It was a misunderstanding and you were twenty-one years old. We all do stupid shit when we’re young.”
“There’s a difference between stupid shit and being a complete and utter bitch.”
“You are not a complete and utter bitch.” He clears his throat. “And you’re not that person anymore.”
“Maybe I am. How do you know I’m not?” I hate how whiney I sound but I can’t help it.
“Love, why are you working for me?”
My brow furrows. “Because I need the money to repair the roof at my house.”
“And what have you done for money before?”
I close my eyes as I feel my cheeks heat. “Asked my dates for it.”
“And this is how I know you’re not the person you used to be. How I know you’re trying to be better.” I open my eyes to meet his gaze. He seems sincere but I don’t know. “You knocked on my hotel room door knowing I would remember you and what happened at my brother’s wedding and you knocked anyway.”
“To be honest, I was hoping you forgot.”
He chuckles. “I tend not to forget when a beautiful woman promises me a night to remember.”
“Whatever,” I mumble.
He kisses my nose. “You are not a horrible person, Love Hill. Have you done things you regret? Sure. But we all have our regrets. You get me?”
I swallow the lump in my throat. “Yes.”
“Are we done with your bullshit excuses now?”
“My excuses aren’t bullshit.”
“I think I proved they were.”
I frown. “You didn’t.”
“I did.”
His smug tone has me seeing red. He couldn’t accept my perfectly reasonable excuses? He has to make me admit my deepest, darkest secret?
“How about this then? We can never be together because I can’t give you what you want!”
