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“Yes.”

“I suppose I’ll allow it.”

“It turns me on when you give me shit.”

She laughs, light finally coming back into her eyes. “That’s so fucked up.”

“Not when you consider the alternative. I don’t ever want you bending over backward because you feel like you have to earn my love. Understand?”

“Bossy.”

“Right.”

She presses a kiss to my lips, and I lose myself in the feel of her.

Kissing her.

Stripping her.

Touching her.

WhisperingI love yous while she rides me.

Hearing her gasp my name as she comes around my cock.

The way her hair tickles my face when she collapses on top of me, spent and boneless.

Her voice when she whispers, “We’re done, Flow, you can get back on the bed.”

I laugh despite my own bonelessness.

I think she’s shifting to make room for my dog but belatedly realize she’s grabbed my phone and held it to my face to open it.

“Wha—” I start, but then I hear it.

Alex’s voice.

“What the actualfuck, you fuckingasshole?” he snaps.

“Hello, Alex. It’s Ginny.”

I lunge for her, but she stops me with a single look.

Then my own dog growls at me in the silence coming through my phone.

“What. Thefuck. Doyouwant?” Alex says.

“For you to get over yourself,” Ginny replies.

A sputtery cough comes through the phone.

“I’m sorry,” she says. “I’m sorry I broke up with you because I was terrified of commitment. I’m sorry I tried to stop your wedding. I’m sorry your name gets dragged back through the mud every single time my name pops up in the news. But mostly, I’m sorry that I never told you that Ilikebeing messy. I’m sorry I never told you I was afraid I was unlovable because my own mother is incapable of real love. I’m sorry I didn’t start therapy sooner. I’m sorry I pretended that I loved making you dinner every night when it was actually a fuckton of work on top of my day job. I’m sorry I hid my truth from you. I was a shitty girlfriend, and you deserved better.”

I stare at her, sitting there, naked, holding me captive with her gaze locked on me while she spills her heart out to my best friend.

Her ex.

The man she spent four years of her life with.