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“Actually, I do believe you I’ about bikers so I’et my head around how it all works”

“You sound like you don’t usually believe people Where’s that coet used to that tone being directed at me

“You don’t really want to hear all about that”

“Wouldn’t have asked if I didn’t want to know”

My stomach unleashedsweet or sexy, but that one sentence said so ranted I’d chosen soet to know et inside me So yeah, Scott was all about the butterflies

“My last boyfriend, Billy, cheated on me with my best friend He also stole fro so that I could quitether for three years Before him was Matt who I dated for a year before I discovered the bullshit life story he’d given er as sucking me dry of money and happiness Matt came after Neil who -”

Scott cut me off, his voice harsh, “Stop I don’t want to know anymore about those assholes You ever tell me where they live, they’ll wish they’d never set eyes on you” We were stopped at a red light and he focused his eyes on me There was pain in those eyes but there was also warmth that attached itself to my heart, and I was pretty sure that in that moment, I was his His to have however he wanted

The light changed and the moment was broken, but I’d felt it and I wondered if he had too

“What kind of art do you e in the conversation I wasn’t sure if he’d done that on purpose but I was fast learning that Scott was very intuitive so I wouldn’t have been surprised if it was a calculated move

“Mixed media art”

“Mixed what?”

“It’s art that uses a range of e and prettyI want to put on there I’ll show you some of my pieces; that’s probably the best way for you to understand what I mean”

He moved his left arm to rest behind my headrest and looked over at me and smiled “I’d like that” It wasn’t his smile so much that hit me; it was the crinkled eyes

Oh, holy God; I really was done for

Scott’s phone rang at that ot a minute?”