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“Don’t be ridiculous—this is your roooes to her knees but doesn’t climb down off the bed “If anyone should sleep on the floor, it’s me”

“Why are we arguing about this? This is a queen-size bed—why should either of us sleep on the floor?” I mumble the next part underout “Why wouldn’t you after the last tiether?”

Too loud Lilly hears me “I’m sorry—as that?”

My “Nothing” is such a feminine reply that her face pulls into a snicker

“Because it sounded like you said ‘Why wouldn’t you after the last tiht?”

There isn’t much to deny

I shrug

Lilly plops back down on her ass, settling back into the cross-legged position “You know I’ve been wanting to talk to you since we slept together Why have you been avoiding me?” She continues before I can answer “Ime, but I’d like to hear you say it”

She wants to hear me say it?

I snort “Do you blame me? I embarrassed myself”

“How did you embarrass yourself?”

Is she being serious right now, or have I just entered a parallel dimension? “Don’t make me say it”

“Did it ever occur to you that your avoidance of me had its own affect? Or were you just worried about yourself?”

I liftabout? “What do you mean?”

She gestures to the foot of the bed and encourages me to have a seat

I sit— else to do, because ants to stand around in blue plaid pajaiant dork

“Irejected because of uys who don’t want to stick around when things get complicated Like it did with us” She reat the first ti to know each other Were you expecting it to be perfect?”

“Kind of”

That h “Well fortunately for you, I wasn’t It never is with soht What I ht one hundred percent of the time Not even you”