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A rush of testosterone ht of that blush that started to cover her chest and neck

“Sure Wherever you feel comfortable, Alex”

If he felt this strongly about her and they’d just oner where Mary Trellis was concerned

She’d no doubt fight the attraction, and that had a grin spreading wide on his face He always did like a challenge

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Well That certainly wasn’t how she saw today going She hadn’t thought it would have been that easy for Alex to agree to go with her But he’d al with her and pretending to be her bad-boy boyfriend

And the latter shouldn’t have ht now Nope, he was all wrong for her They were like oil and vinegar He was the epitome of what she saw as a bad boy She was the stereotypical ideal of a good girl

She was pretty proud of herself for at least acting semi-normal when they met, but toward the end it had been damn hard when she’d felt the way he looked at her as a physical touch

Even now, just thinking about the way his biceps had bulged underneath his t-shirt, how she’d seen his abdooosebu her flesh Mary had to be aAlex Sheppard would be sure to give her was a broken heart

She exhaled as she walked down the street, bag thrown over her shoulder, focus on the asphalt She wasn’t hard of hearing and had picked up enough talk around cairl he wanted, not just because of his talent on the field, but because he was s honest, things that had to do with drunken nights at frat parties and walks of sha

Mary found it all rather ridiculous that the girls around cas she had, yet they still ran up to hi for that broken heart and tattered appearance of a night well spent Feeling disgusted at where her thoughts were, how consumed they were, she focused on the red stone and arched entryway of the campus library that came into view