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“Who the hell asks that question when they’re about to take a woman to bed?” I shake my head.
“You could have. You know my age. You absolutely could have asked.”
She’s right. I could have. Should have, even. But I didn’t, and I know exactly why.
I fucking wanted her.
This is on me. It’s always been on me. I can try to blame her for not telling me, for manipulating me, but I bear the fault here.
“Don’t you understand?” she says. “It didn’t matter to me, Jesse.”
I stare at her. Her beauty, her fire, her wild Colorado cowgirl nature. Of course I didn’t ask. I never thought…
“You’ve been in relationships before, Brianna. I know you have. Maddie has mentioned it.”
Her eyebrows jerk upward. “Maddie mentions my relationships to you?”
“She’s my sister. We talk.”
“Yes, but she’s ten years younger than you are, like I am. When she talks about her friends, I can’t imagine you would remember anything she says.”
A chill hits my heart.
My God, she’s right.
“If that’s the case, how many relationships have Angie, Sage, and Gina been in?”
I can’t answer.
I can’t answer because I don’t know.
I’ve never kept those three in my memory.
Only Brianna.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Is it possible I’ve let her inside me in some way?
“My point is that you’ve had relationships before. With men who were invested, who probably were in love with you, or if not, at least cared a lot about you. You could have given your virginity to any one of them if you wanted to be rid of it.”
“I wasn’t ready.” She frowns. “That’s a lie. I’ve been ready for a long time, Jesse. I just wanted it to be you.”
My cock reacts to her words, to her presence, to everything about her.
All this time…have I been pining after Brianna Steel? The thought sounds ridiculous, but my body is certainly responding to it.
“You got your wish.” I turn back toward the house. “We should get back inside.”
“Jesse…”
“For the love of God, what?”
Chapter Thirty-One
Brianna
So many things I want to say to him.
