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“Just fucking answer me!”
“Twenty-nine. You’re twenty-nine, okay?”
“Yes, it is quite okay. I love being the age that I am. What is not okay is for you to keep treating me like I’m a stupid kid.”
“He was kissing you!” Coop grunted and swung his arms in a broad gesture.
“On the cheek—” I pointed— “because I just got done helping him out of a jam.”
“Oh.” His face fell.
“Fuckin’ right ‘oh’. I’m not interested in Carlos. Even if I was, it wouldn’t be any of your damn business.”
“I’ll never stop protecting you,” he said, being his usual stubborn self, doubling down even when he was wrong.
“Protect me from what? Sex?”
He flinched, uncomfortable with me even saying the word.
“I know you have trouble committing to things. I just wish it extended to your determination to keep me celibate the rest of my life.”
“Virgin. You mean keep you a virgin for the rest of your life.”
“Yeah, keep telling yourself that,” I snapped, storming out of the breakroom. I could have slapped him.
