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But instead of o, he slid one hand around the nape of her neck "Stay" He stroked her skin as if to coax her to change her mind "Co you don’t want to do"

He lowered his ain, but the more he tried to convince her to corew

Too late, she realized that she’d been so stupid and needy that she’dher whole life to feel

Suddenly she could see that all he wanted was to take her up to his rooh he couldn’t possibly know anything at all about her apart from the fact that she was fary with hih to think it could ever have been a good idea to go to a frat party--she put both of her hands on his chest and shoved him away So hard that, for the first time since he’d spun her into his arain

"What’s wrong?"

"I know you’ve probably seen azines and think I’ to break She needed to get out of here before she er fool of herself But she couldn’t leave without letting him know that whatever he’d assu Co

"I shouldn’t have coht and I definitely shouldn’t have kissed you back," she told him "But I still can’t believe you would actually think that I’d want to sleep with you when I only just o I would never do that" She ht in the eye "Never"

Then she reached deep for the poise she’d used on hundreds of runways, and walked away

What the hell had just happened?

Sean stood frozen in the spot where the girl had shoved hi like a total jerk One second he’d been buzzing froirl in the world And then, just

What the hell had he just done?

The girl was gone, but he could still see the expressions that had raced across her face right before she left First, she’d been stunned Then, she’d been angry But by the end, she’d simply looked hurt And so incredibly disappointed, as if she couldn’t believe he would treat her the way he had, like nothingwith hiiven hied to attain, immediately disappeared in the wake of her disappointment in him When she’d shoved him ahen she’d looked at hiood reasons why he actually was scue bucket of ice water du up froiven what she’d said to him when they were on the dance floor: "Whatever happened, I’h to his heart, everything he’d been trying to hold back, to hold inside, to ignore and forget And when she’d reached up to touch his cheek, it had been the first time he’d felt alive, truly alive, in ot into his first fight on the playground at school, his ht, though, he didn’t need histo do He knew it already Because he’d been a dirtbag