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She jerked her arave him a look of such contempt that he flinched "Do me a favor and don’t lie to ht and with h devoid of humor "You know, I had actually started to believe the last feeeks that you were someone of substance I pushed ht there was somore between us Thanks for the wake-up call"

Seth felt her words flaying hi off her in waves, he could see tears gathering in the corners of her eyes "Mia"

She held up her hand, stopping hier seeaze for another , "Just don’t, Seth, please You don’t owethat obviously wasn’t there, at least on your part" With those parting words, she walked through the foyer and into the elevator As the doors closed, he stood there stunned by what had just happened He had the very real urge to pinch himself to see if this was so up out of nowhere at the exacton him practically naked

"Fuck," heher dress back over her head He knew things were just as bad as he thought when she walked toward him with a look of pity in her eyes

"Seth, if you had told me beforehand that you were involved with sos, but I’m not the other woman I don’t have to be" Her look of pity turned to a look of disgust in the blink of an eye "You really hurt that woman You should haveher see so like that" For the second time in so many minutes, another pissed-off fe believable Ashley, who had reue in his e and jury Mia, whom he had slept with once, had looked heartbroken Even as he tried to convince hi, a part of him was torn up over what had happened It was obvious that she had seenbetween them than casual sex If he were honest, hadn’t he started to feel that way as well? Daht; he could have prevented this whole mess if he had just leveled with her He had kept their dinner date to prove that he wasn’t tied down to anyone

His denial of his growing feelings for Mia was to blaht He didn’t want to accept that he could be feeling soo Things like that just didn’t happen to hiuard down for a brief time when he met Beth and look how that had turned out Mia scared hi He wasn’t sure it even mattered anymore The look on her face when she left didn’t bode well He needed a few days to figure out what his next s caet off the pot He couldn’t think of anything that fit the situation more He was either all in or he would have to walk away from her

Chapter Twelve

The insistent knocking at her door showed no sign of stopping Even with the comforter pulled up over her head, the sound still reverberated around the bedrooh her condo to look through the peephole She took a step back in surprise when she saw her i on the other side She could count the number of times her mother had visited her at ho a for here?" She had to give her credit She barely noticed the slight grihter’s disheveled appearance

"Mia, darling, I orried about you I have been calling you since last week and you haven’t returned any of my calls I even called your office and they said that you were taking so your phone, but you do usually call ravely ill"

Being scolded by hercalled to the principal’s office "Sorry, Moes for the past few days I needed so you needed?"

Her , "Well, you could invite o from there"

Mia stepped aside and waved her inside Crap, why didn’t I return her call? Her e She settled on the sofa as if she intended to stay for a while Hadn’t she been through enough lately? Was she going to be forced to play caring fa to see? "Is thereu you want to talk about?" she asked cautiously

"Well, of course," hersurprised "I wanted to see as happening with Seth Jackson When we spoke after your dinner with hiain after your business there ended in a feeeks When I hadn’t been able to reach you for several days, I assuie says that isn’t the case"

Mia’s mouth dropped "You called Seth’s assistant to ask if I was dating him? Mom!"