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“Just ask me, Christian”

“Alright Well, what about me? You want to push me away too?”

“Yes … no… I don’t know I don’t want to get hurt, and I know you definitely break hearts, but at the sa around you These last two months have been fun, and I like you A lot”

He smiled wide “I like you a lot too”

Hearing hi todown more and more with him, and for someone who had suffered so much abuse as I had, it was a hard pill to s

“How about I promise you I won’t hurt you If you promise me that you and Jax won’t have sleepovers anymore Deal?”

“You’ve heard about that?”

“As”

“I can assure you that most are made-up lies We’ve never kissed, we’ve never even held hands Sure, we’ve had sleepovers, but he stays on his side of the bed, and I do the sa It’s not like that between us I don’t feel for Jax what I feel for you e’re together The love I have for him is just brotherly”

My heart dropped when he jerked back, and the expression on his face quickly turned somber, then he bit out…

“You love him?”

Chapter 8

Christian

I eyed her skeptically

“You know there’s a difference between loving soht? I love Jax, but I’m not in love with him, Christian”

It’d been three months since Kinley turnedout

I held her hand

I kissed her lips