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“I’, this is the perfect place for uts all over the floor,” she told me as she walked inside in front of me “No one would ever knoas me,” she added

“Oh, love, how did you know threats of evisceration turndown the desire in her eyes, but not before I saw it there

“The last thing in the world I want is to turn you on,” she said, jerking her chin up for emphasis because a part of her must have known her words wouldn’t co

“No?” I asked, taking a step closer,her retreat

“No,” she said, but she gulped a bit after

“Want to try that again? Perhaps be a littleher back another step Then another Until her back collided with the wall behind her And she had no way past me

“I don’t need to be convincing It’s the truth I have no interest in turning you on”

“Seeher silky hair sift through two of ers

“Aairless “I hadn’t fucked anyone in too long It wasn’t anything personal You were close and you had a dick That was all it was”

“Really?” I asked, pressingto the way her breath caught “So this isn’t personal?”

“This isn’t anything,” she declared, eyes a challenge

And, well, I’d never been the type to back down from one of those, had I?

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Shawn

It was like some rom-com

You know like when the guy and girl had soht-stand and then out of nowhere bu noacross the country from one another

Except, of course, there was nothing romantic or co and fucking with me after all the shit I’d done in my life

And, well, it wasn’t that strange, was it?

We were froeneral area

My family and his ran in the same circles