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“Retreating?”
“Honest to God, you think I’d still be where I am right now after fucking you, or say, fuck you at all if I thought about whatever fucked-up shit that’s in your head right now.”
Her face twisted in a way that told me she was going to spew more bullshit so I got back in there before she could piss me off.
“I already told you what kind of woman you are. Gorgeous. That was what I was asking. How in the hell with how you look, how you carry yourself, your sharp-ass tongue and attitude, have you not been laid in six years? I know it’s not because of lack of interest; again, you’re fucking beautiful. So explain to me, Nebraska, why?”
Total shut down.
“Oh no, you don’t get to retreat, not after that. Not after you gave me that gift. It’s mine, baby, and I’m keeping it.”
“Get. Off. Me.”
“I will as soon as you explain.”
“When a woman tells you to get off, you get off.”
I didn’t think now would be the best time for a joke, so I kept my quip to myself.
“I would if I thought for one second that’s what you really wanted.”
Her right eye twitched.
Oh yeah. She was pissed.
“So now you’re telling me what I want.”
“Yep.”
“You’re very wrong, Easton.”
I was very right and I knew it.
“You’re shit scared. I terrify you.”
“I’m—”
“Terrified,” I repeated. “I know why you haven’t had a man in your bed for six years; because you do everything in your power not to feel what you just felt. You hide behind your walls. You keep separate and live lonely. You’re scared to feel anything. You’re doing it now. Whether you purposely misunderstood me or did it subconsciously out of self-preservation, I don’t know. I also don’t care. Either of those reasons are whacked and I’m not letting that shit slide.”
“Are you for real?” she spat.
“Yep. And I’m right.” She opened her mouth but I talked over her. “Swear to fuck, baby, you call me a dick, you’ll be on your hands and knees taking my dick while I smack your ass.”
She clamped her mouth shut.
Christ, she was a pain in the ass.
“Listen closely, baby. I don’t know who twisted this shit up in your head, though I can guess. Not everyone is out to fuck you over. Not everyone is out to play you or lie. I get why you’d think that. I get why you’d slide straight to thinking the worst. But hear this, I ain’t them.”
I felt her body get stiff but I was more interested in the way her eyes flared, the way they changed from glaring to staring.
“Now that we got that straight, tell me, baby. You got birth control covered?”
She nodded.
Her confirmation was a relief. Just not as big of one as it should’ve been.
“Your dinner’s fucked. I’m gonna toss it and make you a new one.” She started to shake her head but I didn’t give her a chance to argue. “Then we’re gonna shower and I’m gonna fuck you again before we get some shuteye. Flight leaves at oh-dark-hundred.”
