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My heart, which was chugging fro that the sex got to her and stripped her e she loves me, too? “It’s okay, baby It’s okay”

“It’s not” She tries to push me off

I’ “Why isn’t it okay? Give me one reason”

“We’re enemies”

“We don’t have to be”

“You’re taking over my company”

“Shane had run it into the ground It would have ceased to exist in less than a week anyway We’re giving it new life”

“You chained yourself to me for a business deal”

I press kisses across her face before settling softly on her ? Tellyou”

She squeezes her eyes shut “This day has been too much”

“What do you mean?”

She huffs “You want me to humiliate myself? Fine The last time I had sex—the only time—my boyfriend of two months dumped me afterward He said I just wasn’t that attractive after all”

Is she worried I’ll say the same? I wish I knew the name of the punk who took her V-card, then hurt her so I could beat the absolute hell out of him “He was either a player or an idiot, baby You’re everything, and that was the best sex of uess how I feel about you after that, I’ll be happy to show you again”

Her lashes flutter open, and her watery blue eyes nearly s my soul whole “What do you mean?”

“I love you” It feels both dangerous and exhilarating to say that