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This ti a straight answer "You have a guess What happened?"

Frowning, he rubbed his pec "That hurt"

Baloney His chest felt like granite

Merissa guessed, "You broke things off with her and she had a hissy?" When his eyes flared a little, she said, "That’s it, isn’t it? You being the irl and that particular girl didn’t want to share so she spread those lies towhat? Get even with you?"

"I’m not a man-whore"

"Oh please" How Arht face, she didn’t know "Total man-whore But so what? You’re an adult and if you want to sow enough wild oats for a battalion, it’s your own business"

"I--"

"But at eighteen, well, how many oats could you have sown?" She couldn’t ever reh to really take notice of him, he’d already been experienced, or at least it had seemed so to her Girls chased hirown up with that as a fact of life

"You were so popular--of course you didn’t want to get tied down"

"I--"

"It’s ridiculous" She hadn’t known the details of his experience, only that he always seeirl and that the way he looked at that girl had been noticeably aware, with the full force of his hungry, blatantly sexual attention

As he’d grown and matured, his nature had ripened How he smiled at, listened to and focused on wo She knew, because even when he wasn’t trying to seduce her, he hteen--surely no one had expected hie Or at least, no one should have

"Yes, you’re out there," she said, because no one could deny his pleasure-seeking lifestyle "Sometimes way out there from what I’ve heard I eous But force?" She made a rude sound

"You saw the ties on my bed"

"Yeah, and we’ve all seen the wonore the heat in her face "Geez, I iine you have a hundred women who could be character witnesses Lea should have known--"

Ar a halt to her rant It dazed her, that warain, she saw hiet too annoyed by his huhed

His body ar in, Rissy savored theone last tibetter"

Did he really think anyone who knew him would believe the lies? "You’re welcoain--and Armie let her "So what happened after you broke Lea’s heart?"

His hands opened on her, one on her nape under the fall of her hair, the other low on her spine "Lea’s heart was never involved She was a nice, sweet girl, who, as she put it, wanted to take a walk on the wild side before she headed back to college at the end of the su you qualified?"