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"He sounds like a walking STD"

I snorted "He did like to spread the love around He bla with not getting to be with the one he loved"

"So you slept with hian to percolate Was Killian concerned about ht still have some? Was that what all the questions were about?

This was the moment I could choose to lie so as not to plant some stupid seed of doubt in hisscrewed everything up "He was the last person I slept with before you Before I left the States, I called Gayle and the band together and I told the They were devastated but supportive Later that night, Micah ca the band ain We ended upwellyou know The worst thing was it was almost as bad as my time with Roth I felt so detached fro it because I felt like I owed him a debt I left the States the next day"

"Jesus, Skylar," Killian ment "I knoas horrible to do that to him"

"That’s notI’ me to look at him "Micah should have known you were in no position to be thinking clearly about anything, let alone a relationship with him"

"Maybe But I’m not the type of person to bla me froruhed and relaxed back into his body After a little while of sweet, silent conterin and asked, "So how and when did you lose your virginity?"

"A long tio"

I smacked him playfully "No fair Details"

He chuckled "Fine I was fourteen"

"Holy shit Why is it guys are always so young?"

"Not all guys," he disagreed "I had a friend at uni who lost his when he enty-one We celebrated for so long after it happened, five of us ended up with alcohol poisoning"

I snorted "Okay So not all guys But fourteen? Wow"

Killian shrugged "I don’t think it’s the sa horny as hell and finding an outlet"

I wrinkledis that it was a form of masturbation?"

"I am not," he scoffed "I ood Sex was an escape fro desperately not to sound jealous Even though the scary truth was that I was jealous of any woman who had touched Killian that way Especially one who had offered hirief for a while

"Maryanne Wright She was gorgeous and sixteen" He scrubbed a hand over his face with a regretful sigh "Everyone called her the town bike"

"The town bike?"

"Because every guy at school had ridden her"

"Okay, now I feel less bad about inity story"

"Hey, I learned soht"

"I’ll send her a thank-you note And should I send more to all the women who have come after her? Were they all part of your unattached, undraamy philosophy?"

"Aye If you hadn’t noticed, I’nored irlfriends when I was a teenager I was too busy looking after Autuavea path to success fora record contract was the extent ofa child

I turned into hi my chin on his shoulder as I traced his jaith a whisper of ood brother"

He frowned, concern di She see her"