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That’s apparently all she needed to hear, because her face softens and she squeezes my hand back “I won’t say I’ain, but I very much understand day in and day out it’s s difficult for you And to be honest, I didn’t reach out to you because I didn’t want to bother you I’ anything other than playing ‘fake relationship’ with me”

“If I had to play ‘fake relationship’ with solad it’s with you,” I tell her earnestly

That’s no shit

“You’re sweet,” she says with an exaggerated flutter of her eyelashes, and it et this over with?”

“Ready,” I tell her as I turn for the hostess podiuht strikes and I turn back toward Brooke, backing her into the corner Bending et near hers, I say, “We don’t have to have sex You know that, right?”

“I know,” she says in a breathless whisper

“I mean…I want to have it,” I quickly say so she doesn’t think otherwise “And you see about that…well, just know that’s not h this charade with your relationship intact with your dad and without hi me off the team”

“He can’t do that,” she says dryly

“I know that,” I return with a grin “But he can make my life hell”

“We want the saht as a feather, her voice is so soft, yet their ut

She knohat I want That’s her

She wants the sa, which means she wants me

If that’s the case, then fuck if I’ to stand back from her I think in this et to know each other to put on a good show, but rather it’s ood ti it

At least that’s the way I’ to that