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"That is disgusting"

I grinned "What’s disgusting is that you’ve both been up in there and--­"

"Can we not talk about this?"

My s I wouldn’t find any of this funny, but right now, I loved how he squir what you aren’t quite proud of"

He arched a brow and then fixed his gaze on the e the truth, Tess I’ve known Steph for years, and, yeah, we’ve fooled around a ­couple of ti since the end of last sehed "And I haven’t ever kissed her That was the truth, too I hadn’t kissed a girl since"

My heart thumped heavily "Since when?"

Jase shook his head and then let out a short, dry laugh "Since a really long tie came over him I wasn’t sure what it was exactly, but a distant, al the lines of his face that would drive an artist crazy to sketch

I kneas talking about Jack’sa broken heart for all these years

God, maybe I was drunk, because I had no idea if he had even been in love with her Jase was a dude Dudes didn’t harbor old love wounds They either drank or screwed them away

My eyes became too hard to keep open "I wish I had that cupcake now"

He laughed as he slowly shook his head "You would have loved it I got another Snickers one I guess you’re just not uess not" A ?"

There was a pause, and then I felt his finger drift overit back "I’ll stay until you fall asleep"

"That won’t be very long" I willed my eyes open, but they wouldn’t "And we need to talk"

"Sleep, Tess I proainst my forehead--­"we’ll talk tomorrowif your brother doesn’t killinside eha pitifully, I rolled onto my side and blinked my eyes open

The sht in and I winced, pressing the heel offorehead

"Ow," Iup The quilt slipped down to ht

A soft laugh floated through the roo to wake up"

My tortured gaze swung to the doorway Debbie leaned against the fra like I lanced at the clock "Holy crapola"

It was alain "Did you overindulge last night?"

"Yeah," I croaked

Debbie pushed out of the doorway and headed to the se juice, she then grabbed another bottle off the desk She walked them over to me and sat down on rown tiny hairs during the night, as I watched her pop out two aspirins

"Take them" She handed over the OJ and aspirins "It will help"

I would take a shotgun blast to the head if it helped Sing the pills, I followed it up with a healthy gulp of OJ

"You’re officially a college student now," she said, screwing the lid back on the aspirins

"I aot your first college hangover It’s a tradition"

"It sucks" I pressedti "At least you haven’t vomited"

I squeezed ht?" Debbie asked, twisting around and sitting cross-­legged "I saw you go upstairs, and then you never ca for you"

My eyes widened as last night came back in a rush Cold doused ed in a bit of oral play with Jase

Was this ue on h my brain I flushed as my heart rate picked up A different kind of ache filled my brsts, and then dippedswiftly, I ignored the fierce slice of pain between htstand I didn’t reotten it out of my pocket There were no one back to the frat house and told him that he’d taken me home And left out a lot of detail

God, I hoped he did

As much as I wanted Jase--­and I did want him--­I didn’t want to cause proble a relationship in the open difficult

If ere even going to have a relationship

There were also no missed calls or texts from Jase

My stomach twisted, and I dropped the phone on the bed beside me "I caured Did so happen to cause you to leave?"

"No" I forced a casual shrug and took another drink "I just wanted to come back"