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"Chad?"

"Yeah"

"Let’s drop the small talk You don’t care about my major and I don’t care about yours"

His eyes widened "Wow You’re to the point"

I nodded and lifted et to the point, too" He leaned forward so that his mouth brushed my cheek "I’d like to fk you"

I stifled a wince and pulled back to look at hilittered "How about it?"

Suddenly everything felt bleak inside meas if this was the most I could expect out of life That there would never be anythingas I ledother than money Not his time Not his affection A er to use me and toss naled the bartender for another The bartender returned and lined up two shot glasses in front of lass, ready to shoot the liquid, let it burn out every other feeling until I was coh" The deep voice cut through aze on Shaw, standing there Up close and personal I’d been thinking about hi those eyes that were staring at ht now Still, the reality of him was sodark eyes blazed down at ment there so clearly The tiny hairs on ht

"You’re not the boss of me" God I sounded like I was ten years old I could do better than that

He actually had the gall to pluck the shot glass from my hand and plunk it down on the bar Not only that He slid it away I’d have to stretch across the counter to even reach it "About this I alass back to hiet shit-faced and let soive a crap about paw all over you?" He heldat Chad

"Hey," Chad objected, but I didn’t even glance at hi the hot eed those feelings close and stirred the before His sudden presence had erased those cold, bitter feelings Now there was just fury at hi to tell me what to do He wasn’t even my friend He didn’t even like ood time with Suzanne"

God, now I sounded jealous Of my own friend, no less It

His nostrils flared "You’re not getting drunk"

"Newsbreak I’h he was definitely killing et that you’re Reece’s friend and you probably think I need looking after, but really I’"

As if I hadn’t said a word, his deep voice rumbled across the air "You definitely don’t need another drink"