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He used gifs and emojis.
Hetried.
And that made me feel… well…desirable.
It made me believe him more, too.
It was one thing for him to say he was serious about me, but it was something entirely different to see that he tried with me in ways he didn’t with anyone else. Even when I scrolled back a fewyearsin his texts, the conversations were all the same.
Short.
Unemotional.
Lacking effort.
The more I read, the more curious I became.
Who was Madd, really? What was he like? How was he different with me?
The only way to find out was to talk to him, to get to know him.
I continued snoopingon his phone until I was completely sold that I’d pinned down the way he acted around other people.
Serious.
Aloof.
A bit grumpy.
He kept everyone at a distance.
Then, I finally pulled up the pictures he’d mentioned of him in the shoe store, when he was buying my apology sneakers.
My lips curved upward when I saw the thick crease between his brows as he held one shoe up beside another.
When I found a video, I didn’t hesitate before hitting the play button.
It was a solid twenty minutes of Madd walking around the store, comparing shoes. As ridiculous as it was, my eyes were glued to the screen the whole time.
He wasn’t just grabbing the first pair he saw—he was thinking about them. Debating them inwardly.
How could he get more thoughtful than that?
I looked back through the social media stalker’s page, checking out more pictures and videos of Madd through the years.
Sure enough, my theory about his personality checked out.
He looked irritated or downright angry in every picture and video.
I didn’t find one picture of him smiling, or otherwise happy in any way. And while he didn’t smileoftenwith me, he did smile from time to time.
Something told me the smiles would be more frequent if I wasn’t always pushing him away or avoiding him, too.
Deciding I would bug him until he told me his whole life story, the way he’d gotten mine out of me, I pulled up my texts with Tori.
Me
I hear you have a huge stash of blood from all of the pack’s most eligible bachelors
