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Stopping short of the table by a couple of feet, I ask, “Hey. How are you feeling this morning, Dane the Great?” Sarcasm drips from my words.
Dane’s eyes meet mine, and we both know in this instant, last night when I said everything changed, it really has.
If it hadn’t, I wouldn’t be jealous. I would sit down and order a two-pound omelet full of cheese and bacon.
If it hadn’t, I would have received my daily good morning text, and I wouldn't be met with his pleading gaze, as if the words "I'm sorry" were written in script across his big, brown doe eyes.
“I bought you a drink to wake you up. I know it was a long night.” I exaggerate the word long.
Daisy’s eyes dart from Dane to me. “Well, I need to pack my suitcase. I’ll see you on campus.”
Of course, Daisy looks like she just left a magazine shoot. Wide-legged linen pants, a white cotton crop top, and her tortoise shell, Tori Burch sunglasses on her head.
“I need to pack too. Do you still plan on taking me to see my grandparents?” I ask.
“Yeah.”
He doesn’t get up. He doesn’t tell me to stay, so I walk away.
Why isn’t he coming after me? Once I’m out of sight, I run to the elevator, impatiently pressing the button multiple times. I need to get out of here before I run into his parents or even worse, Daisy again.
When I get to the room, I sit on the couch, crying with his shirt clutched in my hands. I bring it to my nose.
Why did I have to complicate things? Why couldn’t I just stay away from his pecker. His big, long pecker that gave me hardcore orgasms. More than that, it was a treasured connection, never experienced by me before.
We’ve ruined everything. Our lifelong friendship, as we once knew it, is over. In the morning light, he realizes this was a mistake. Not only do I not get to have sex with him anymore, but I also lost my best friend. Now everything will be awkward.
As I’m throwing my toiletries into my bag, I hear the door clamp closed.
Just act like it was nothing. A hot one-night stand with my best friend. Neither of us can handle anything more.
I see his reflection in the mirror as I brush my teeth and spit in the sink.
“I’m sorry,” he says, leaning against the door jamb.
“You have nothing to be sorry for,” I croak out, and I hear my phone beep in the bedroom. I wipe my mouth and shove my toothbrush and toothpaste into my makeup case.
When I try to walk past him, his six-foot-six, two hundred twenty pound body doesn’t budge. I turn my body sideways to get through what’s left of the opening. A surge of tears falls over my lids as he grasps my hand, but for the first time ever, I can’t look my best friend in the eyes.
Chapter Twenty-Two
DANE
“Don’t walk away from me.” I pull her back to me. “We’re talking about what happened.”
“You fucked me. It was one night. That’s all it was.” Her voice shakes, and she won’t look at me. She won’t fucking look at me. What have I done?
I never wanted anyone to hurt Lettie, especially me, but I just had to have her at least one time. The feeling had been mutual—she admitted to staying on birth control in case it ever happened.
“Look at me.”
She looks into the bedroom instead of me. “No. I called Brooke, and they’re coming to get me.”
“It’s three hours away. Besides, we’re going home to see Granny and Paps.”
Shifting her weight, she huffs, “Tell me what you’re sorry for. For giving me oral or me giving it to you? For sticking your dick in me? For… for…”
Lettie lifts her head, and her bloodshot eyes collide with mine. In true Lettie fashion, her thoughts tumble out. And I want it to stop. Her words aren't true, none of them. I’m not sorry for any of it but instead of saying I’m not sorry for making love to her, my lips crash against hers.
