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"Oh, sexy, sexy Can Yamada video you? We put that shit on the Internet and make you faht, Yamada" I quickly cut hio’s body off to the world because I fucking hate the very idea of that

"Is he upset?" Margo asks

I stare down at her and run h her thick hair "No, just seeh Yaood party, and it doesn’t matter who it’s with ether" It’s a statement, not a question "It’s hard to picture the two of you as such good friends"

I sht I met Yamada "It’s hard not to like the little asshole He has a way ofyou have so much fun that you don’t care how absolutely ridiculous you look while doing it The first night Istands in order to get noticed by a girl"

"Was it Jess?" she asks, and instantly, my body stiffens

"How do you know about her?"

It wasn’t a secret Those who knoell kneas in a long-term relationship with Jess, but I don’t like to talk about it So buried because they hurt too daures He never did kno to keep his ure out exactly whather about me

"What did he say?"

"Not irl who you were ever able to get before him--Jess was the first, but then she broke your heart"

I blow a rush of air out of o chews the inside corner of her lower lip "I can respect that Relationships suck Proet hurt, which is why I decided a long tiood that you protect yourself because love is for suckers" I trace the contours of her beautiful face and wish that I didn’t believe that "I’ here for the physicality of it and nothing more"

There’s a flicker of pain in her expression before she nods "It’s good we’ve both agreed this is just fucking then"

My heart squeezes at that thought Suddenly, I wish I had never said that I didn’tbetween us didn’tto me because it does While I’m certainly not in love, I do feel a definite attacho if I allowed myself to open up, but deep doe both know a relationship between us would never work We’re both too controlling, and when I go behind her back and make this deal with Yamada to tear her father’s company apart, she’ll hate me even more than she ever did I know it That’s why this has to be just fucking That’s why, as much as I want to have her in ht, it can never happen However, I have the urge to at least let her know this ti to er excited by the thought of divorcing you?"

She shakes her head "I was just thinking the sa It’s weird to say that I would like to date my husband"