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"After what you said that night, I’aze cutting deep "So why are you here?"
At least he didn’t pretend not to understand my reference "What did you mean, you put your father in a wheelchair?"
"Just what I said"
"So youhurt him? Deliberately?"
His lips twisted into a harsh s You wantthat isn’t broken Is that it, Pepper?" He shook his head and tossed the e to lie to you and convince you that I’ to be a doctor"
He pushed off froain
"That’s not what I’"
"Yes, you are I can see it in the way you’re looking at reen eyes"
My hands knotted into fists at my sides "I just want to know the truth"
"What does it matter?" he said over his shoulder as he pulled back the covers on the bed "We don’t need to be sharing each other’s life stories We don’t need to know any truths about each other What we’re doing together doesn’t need to be complicated"
I blinked as his words washed over ht, of course I didn’t need to knoho he was
"Would you kill the light?" he asked, sighing as he crawled back into bed
"You’re going to sleep"
"I’?"
I glanced froo"
He heldhis head back down on the pillow I started to gather my stuff up when his voice stopped me
"Or you can stay Whatever you want to do"
Did he want me to stay? It almost sounded like he did I hovered, unsure Gradually, I set my books back down on the table andoff my shoes, I climbed in beside him
I eased toward hi closer, burrowing the tip ofthe clean smell of his skin, fresh froh his back toward ainst his skin "How about ed them between his calves
He hissed "Get sohtly "You’re feverish Maybe it helps"
Rolling over onto his side, he faceders stroking up and down leisurely Seductively Even sick, he was seducing me He probably didn’t even realize it It’s just what he did Who he was How he affectedtheh It’s real and genuine A lot of girls have this fake laugh Not you"
"I like your laugh, too," I whispered, feeling pulled in, cozy in the cocoon of his bed
"Yeah?"
I flattenedthe sensation of the firhed, like h more since you ca the words
He did? I frowned He hed at all before, then, because I didn’t think he was particularly jovial
I held hi my head beneath his chin His arms surrounded me and kept me close to his overly warm body Almost like I was some kind of lifeline I felt theConfident that he was on the mend, I finally relaxed and fell asleep
Chapter 17
The remnants of Halloere in full evidence as I carefully e and black Silly String I could already iine the look on Heather’s face when she woke up Our RA would probably call a special floorforward to it
Speaking of Heather I was four doors fro his shoes in one hand, he closed the door carefully, like he didn’t want to make a sound As he turned, we caan?"