“Can I ask you a question? One you’ll actually answer with a serious response?” she asks, ignoring my accusation.
“Shoot.”
“Why did you leave like that? I mean, you seemed into it, and then…” Her hand falls, slapping against her thigh.
I give her a lazy smirk. “Is that what you think? That I just lost interest?”
“What the hell was I supposed to think?”
I move around the bed, eating up the distance between us. “Leaving before I got the chance to fuck you will go down as one of my biggest regrets. My dick is still mad at me.”
She laughs, shaking her head.
“I’m serious. I got a phone call that I couldn’t ignore.” The same kind of phone call that eventually led to me getting kicked from the team. The same kind of phone call that is forever fucking up my shot at a normal life. “Now that that’s cleared up, ready to finish what we started?”
“Not happening.”
“Why the fuck not? I want you. You obviously want me.”
“Oh, obviously, huh?”
“If I touched you right now, would you be wet for me?”
“And there you go again. You can’t just say things like that.”
“Why not?”
“I don’t know,” she admits.
“Because you like it?”
She doesn’t have a response for that.
“That night was a momentary lapse of sanity. And now that I’m staying with your sister, I just think it’s best if we don’t… I don’t know.” She fumbles to find the words. “Complicate things.”
“What’s complicated about it?”
“Sex is always complicated.”
“Whatever you say, Allie Girl.”
“So, we’re on the same page?”
“We’re not even reading the same book.”
She sighs, plopping down onto my bed. “Please. I really need this to work out.”
“What are you doing here, anyway?” I don’t tell her that I played a part in getting her here. I know what it’s like to not know where you’re going to sleep that night, or when you’re going to get your next meal. I don’t know Allison’s situation, but the fact that she was sleeping in a booth tells me it isn’t all sunshine and roses.
“It’s only temporary.”
“You said that part already.”
She glares at me. “I was living at the dorms with Halston without permission. I got kicked out, but in two months, I’ll have a place to stay.” She gives me a bratty smile, crossing her arms. “Happy?”
Two months of living with Allison? This should be fun. “Ecstatic.”
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