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“You say that like you mean it.”
“I don’t say anything I don’t mean.”
I ignored his response, asking, “What do you want to know?”
“I mean, you don’t have to tell me your blood type, but I do want to know if I could trust you with my heart. You can never be too careful. My mom tells me so.”
I laughed.
“Honesty truly is the best policy. I’m upfront, and I don’t want women falling in love with me.”
“Commitment phobic?”
“Quite the opposite. I’ve committed my entire life to being single, and I’ve never hurt a woman because of it.”
“I see. So you’ve never been in a relationship? Never had a girlfriend?”
He grinned. “And that surprises you why?”
“I don’t know.” I shrugged. “You seem like you would be an amazing boyfriend.”
“Enough about me.” He kissed me. “I want to hear all about you.”
“You’re a paradox of contradictions, Nicholas Aires.”
“Do you need me to start slow? How about I lead you in the right direction? Tell me about your favorite color?”
“I don’t have a favorite color.”
“You mean it isn’t your beloved pink anymore?”
“Actually, I’m not a fan of pink.”
He narrowed his eyes at me.
“I’m more a blue kind of girl now.”
“Well, my blue balls agree with you.”
I giggled as he took me in with those eyes again. Knowing he could see right through me made my stomach flutter for entirely different reasons. And as much as it terrified me, it also thrilled me.
I smiled. Despite the awareness in his eyes, I looked away. I had to. Reaching into my purse, I turned my attention to a piece of gum I was pulling out, avoiding the look in his eyes that I wasn’t ready to feel. I put it in my mouth, needing some sort of distraction from the sudden realness between us.
“Sharing is caring.” He nodded toward the wrapper in my hand.
“I think that was my last one.”
“You don’t share your candy. I’m having flashbacks to our childhood. Will I have to chase you around like I did when we were kids?”
“You mean terrorize me?”
“And you loved it then as much as you would right now.”
“My mom never told me that boys were mean to me because they liked me.”
“I find that hard to believe. If that were true, you wouldn’t have dated the douchebags you’ve been linked to.”
As if on cue, my stomach did that somersault thing again. Except this time, it felt like it would never end, twisting and turning and flipping.
