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"You need to leave," she said, ignoring his set the hell out of her aparthed heavily as he tossed the DVDs aside "You’re canceling another date"

"Another date?" she repeated back, realizing that she was starting to sound like a parrot thanks to hi boyish as he explained, "Our third date"

"Our third date…………," she repeated, wondering how’d she missed the first and second date, but she didn’t have to wonder for very long

"Our first date last night when you kicked ht e had to call it an early night because of the………incident," he said with a shrug as though that horrifying experience that she’d so deal

"Those weren’t dates," she pointed out between clenched teeth "And neither is this"

"Wow," he said, shaking his head as though he just couldn’t believe what he was hearing, "I can’t believe that you keep leading me on like this"

"I never led you on!"

"It’s really not nice leading guys on, Tinkerbelle," he said in a chiding tone as he climbed off the bed

"Oh my God! Are you insane?"

"Probably," came the unconcerned answer as he walked up to her and cupped her face in his large, warm hand and caressed her cheek with the pad of his thumb "Nohy don’t you tell me why you’re scared of me?"

Chapter 15

"I-I’ away from him

He tilted his head to the side as he considered her "No, you’re not," heon between us"

She snorted "There’s nothing going on between us"

"Really?" he asked,closer

"Really," she said firmly and he would have believed her except he didn’t want to He refused to believe this insane attraction that he was feeling was one sided

"Then prove it," he said,the," she said on a tired sigh as she pushed past hi away?" he asked, watching as she picked up the large bowl of popcorn and set it on the nightstand

"I’ heavily as she pulled back the covers and cli?"

"I’ to bed," she said, and with that she turned over and curled up

"You’re afraid ofon the bed by her side

"No," she said, shifting away from hi her as he reached over and gently swept her long hair back onto her pillow

"Yeah, that would explain whyback to slap his hand away

"I see," he said, because he did It all ed out on Benadryl, her reaction to him and her choice in friends "You’re afraid of sex," he blurted out before common sense could take over and help him keep his mouth shut