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Sterling grunted “Where was Ol’ Bruno when you got gang-banged by the van?”

I grunted “Pissed off that I left hiue as soon as I get back Apparently, his sole purpose in life now is to make sure that I’m okay He hasn’t left my place since it happened”

He was in the godda fucker was sitting on his couch right nowI did It wouldn’t surprise me if he had around the clock surveillance on me

“Why do you have a bodyguard anyway?” he asked “You were supposed to call ht of the accident and tell me”

We’d played Sterling’s teaht I was supposed to tell him

“The league thinks I have a stalker They suggested I have a bodyguard to protect me from said stalker”

I didn’t have a stalker

I had an Uncle Pablo They just didn’t know that

“So, tell irl…”Chapter 14I can’t tell if I have free ti that I was supposed to do

-Rhys’ secret thoughts

Rhys

Teeks later, twelve weeks after ood as new

As long as you didn’t count the screaot when I becaot above one sixty

Any other tiht as rain

Well, kind of

The other time I didn’t feel all that hen my dick made itself known that it wasn’t dead

And that only happened when she was around

Over the last teeks, as my idea took root, I became more and more attuned to her every move

I watched her when I was sure she wasn’t watching me, and I planned

Planned for hoas going to ask her what I wanted to ask her…which I knew that she’d likely refuse right off the bat

But, I aiting

Waiting until I could find outthat she wanted, to offer as an incentive, to get her to agree to what I wanted

It was unconventional It was crazy…and I wanted it

Bad

It was the only way

And she was the only wo like money, or fame

Because, for a person like her to sit with aas she did with ood person

And I needed that