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Chest heaving, he rolled onto his back and got rid of the condo it in the trashcan near his bed Then he reached out, wrapped a hand around Leah's waist and pulled her close Every bone in his body had been replaced with Jell-O laced with so down Hard But a sharp elbow to the ribs kept hi into the sweet hereafter

"Hope you don't think you're staying here," Leah said, all the sex kitten gone from her voice

He tried to untangle that statement and came up blank "What?"

She rolled over to face hie anything I still hate you"

Drew glanced down at her naked body, lingering on her tits that still bore the tell-tale signs of him "But you want me"

She let out a huff and shrugged "Seems to be my cross to bear"

This wo sex and she was kicking hi during the deed, he needed to block that shit out because Leah Camacho was exactly the same as she'd always been

"You're aschairs" Still, because he'd been raised right, even if it did piss hiave the space to his houseguest

She s a shit "And I own it"

He grabbed a pair of sweats froonna have to learn one of these days that there's nothing wrong with being a little soft around the edges"

"Sure there is That's exactly how you get hurt, which I don't plan on being again—especially not by someone with the last name Jackson"

The soft tremble to her voice, despite the hard look in her eye and her do-not-fuck-with-ut Leah and his little sister Jess had been best friends growing up but soed all that He didn't knohat, but it had obviously e off his own frustration as he started out the door

He stopped in the doorway "People can change, you know You gotta learn to trust that" Maybe even him

Whatever reaction he'd been hoping for—and he wasn't even sure hiet it Instead, Leah harrumphed and rolled over so she faced away from him

Shaking his head, he walked out into the hall, grabbed a blanket fro, and et the idea of change out of his head People did change But him? He was still in the sa with overbearing parental expectations of what he should be doing and waiting for a phone call with a job offer out of town It was like his life was stuck on a loop with Leah being the one who always seemed to knock him out of it