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“You know, I’ve thought about you a lot over the years,” he said

He kept alternating between gauging her reactions and watching the road

She bit her lip, running her hands down her thighs, s out her dress “You were my idol”

“Don’t say that I was just a fighter Same as you,” he said

Belle shook her head “No, you were a legend I may have had a crush on you”

“Oh?”

“Well, probably every wo felt the same way”

He tightened his grip on the steering wheel Drago swore she saw hi her assistance and nothing more To hear her words, to see her cheeks flush pink, it was more than he could have dreamed “I don’t care about other women,” he said “Just you, Belle”

The heat and sexual tension in the car wereHe wanted to pull over and fuck her on the side of the road, to rip that tight dress clean off her body, but he pushed those feelings away “You care about me?”

“I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t,” he said “I’ve been retired for a while I have no co, I never got involved”

“So this is about your conscience?”

He scoffed, slowing down as they neared the restaurant He conte their relationship platonic, but she was his ultio shifted in his seat once he put the car into park “Don’t think it’s about anything else I’ a cause”

“I don’t knohat I feel What should I feel, Drago? I don’t even think I knohat love is Why would you want anything to do with me?”

“I’m not perfect, Belle We’re both broken, both dealt the same shit hand Maybe that ether”

“You know about Mikey”

“I know about everything And I don’t give a shit about hi you’ve done or had to do”

“He’s the only guy I’ve ever been with The whole dating thing isn’t for me I made a mistake once, and I don’t intend to make the same one twice”

“So you’ll be alone forever because of one asshole?”