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“No, I’ll sleep out here”

“Fine, I’ames with you, Keira”

“I’ames, Eric I’m not the one that almost kissed me and then ran off to the whore master bus to do who knoith who knoho”

“What do you want to know?!”

“I not de any answers out of you Eric”

“You’re just going to be pissed about what you think I did over there Ever think that maybe I needed to blow off so, talented woht that has toldto do withother than a professionalout with souys and talk shit for a while to clear my head”

“Eric, I—”

“No, Keira You set your boundaries You told o any further past professional, you’re going to have to tellto try to force myself on you Okay?”

“Okay”

“So, do you have anything to say tothere next to the booth with his arms crossed in front of him

“No,” she squeaked He threw up his hands and stor the door She collapsed back onto the couch and covered her face with both hands What had she done? Why couldn’t she just say it? Because then it would prove all the shit everyone had said about her? That she was only there because he wanted to screw her That she would once again be riding on the coat tails of a et ahead She couldn’t be that person, but she couldn’t resist Eric for er and once she was finally ready to fess up, would he even want her anymore?

Keira was slowly driving hi able to touch her beyond wrapping his arled up to him made him want to pull his hair out The nulehandedly be responsible for a drought in some small country somewhere

She couldn’t just ad on between them and let it happen All these roadblocks she’d thrown up had hi if he wasn’t just a nice distraction to her An ends to a means The rab her and kiss her like his life and sanity depended on it To coes now that he was getting e pissed him off He deleted theht she could just weasel her way back in with him pissed hiht and he couldn’t get her to admit what she felt Add to that the thus with Keira, it made him want to crush his phone

Had he been teet a little attention froer on? Yes, whatthemselves at hioing to happen None of those wo back, had a few beers with Grayson andoff earlier

All he needed was for her to say the word Completely befuddled by her, he decided to turn to the one woman who’d never let him down and he could count on one hundred percent He tapped on her name and he couldn’t hold back his smile