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“And you sleep with the three most dangerous guys in Redwood.”
“All right, you got me,” I said with a smile and raised my glass of water. “Cheers to being a slut … but she’s the rudest damn person that I’ve met, and she has the unhealthiest obsession with Jace, Allie’s … stepbrother.”
“So?” Akio said. “I think she’s hot.”
But I could tell that there was more. Akio didn’t think she was just hot; he actually liked her for some reason. Maybe he liked bad girls like her, ones who would be nothing but rude to him and who only passed every class because she flirted hard with the teachers and principal.
“It doesn’t matter,” Akio said, finally tearing his gaze away from her. “She would never like me anyway. And if, miraculously, she did, my father would never approve of her. He’d take one look at her and judge her, the way that he judges everyone.”
And while Akio was talking about Nicole, I understood the way he felt. Being part of a rich family meant that we had to be perfect, could never screw up, and could only be with people that our parents approved of. It wasn’t our lives; it was theirs.
But that would change.
“Every decision that you make doesn’t have to be for him,” I said, giving him a smile. “Sometimes, the best ones are the decisions you make for yourself because being the perfect son in his eyes will never be achievable. I’ve tried, so don’t worry about what he thinks. You do you.”
