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“Ava—”
“I know it’s harder for you to be my friend—to trust me, to talk to me honestly—than it would be if you just jumped my bones and fked my brains out But you’re the one who set the friendship parameters, notdrop it?”
“Not a chance” She crossed her ar e and yet you don’t have to?”
“Didja ever think I don’t wanna put ht in front of you?”
Such a self-protective macho uys who constantly shared every eood deed He was more of a loner than she’d first suspected He held hinized because she was the saet to the real Chase, she’d have to lay herself bare for hiht caused her pulse to skip, but she’d do it
“Great First you wouldn’t shut up and now you’re givingto find a way to convince you to trust ht you shine on yourself, I plan to do the sao by After they’d passed the fourth one, Chase spoke
“I wanted that type of experience, hell, any type of sexual experience, but I knew…” He puffed out a breath “Look, truth is I was a short, scrawny, sixteen-year-old kid I hadn’t added any height to my boy frame in over a year TrustYou’ve met my brothers And my cousins” He reached for his water bottle in the cup holder and took a long drink “More than one person asked me if I’d been adopted by the McKays because I sure didn’t ‘ht they were bein’ funny, and I didn’t have the life experience to give ’e off to rodeos, I figured out I needed weight training Not only to build e my physical appearance I convinced irls wouldn’t care so much that I’m short”
Ava’s stomach muscles knotted at his admission, but she didn’t speak
“In addition to ranch work, I lifted weights and added daily cardio The change to my body ca By the following sue boy After the physical transformation…well, I finally had imen for the past twelve years, half afraid if I don’t, I’ll revert to that ninety-pound weakling sitting in the shadoithhe needed aout a protein bar and offered hiht it was a peace offering
“No coe of your body because you wanted to And it changed your life That’s admirable I can’t say the sae mine” She leaned across the seat But this time she cupped her brsts “These? Not real”
Chase’s eyes wandered over her cleage and up her face “Seriously?”
“Seriously I had a boob job two months after I turned nineteen Wanna feel them?”
His mouth dropped open “What? No”