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“It’s been a whole damn year, Kee. A year of me loving you, and a year of you wanting me to keep it a secret. For what?”
“I don’t want anybody but you.”
“You can have me here,” I whispered. “Just not out there.” “I want you every-fucking-where.”
Dimitri didn’t have to keep my girl safe from anything. That was my job.
you?” “The news! You… You shouldn’t have saved me, Dex.”
“I’ll always save you, Kee. Don’t you get that?”
I needed her too. Didn’t she know that by now?
“I’ll never be your friend.” The words came out fast with fury. “I’ve told you I love you; I’ve promised myself to you. I want to marry you…not be your friend.”
“You’ve always been my girl, my girlfriend, my future wife. Nothing less. Don’t you get that? I promised you forever, Kee.”
“Or maybe my coming home had nothing to do with you at all because I barely even think of you.”
“You really think I believe that?”
“I feel everything,” I confessed
“I want you still, Dex.”
“I want whatever I can have with you.”
“Do you really think I don’t love you?”
“I don’t know, Kee. All I know is that you said you didn’t love me once.” “I didn’t mean it.” I stepped back and away from her. “Yes, well, I mean it when I say I don’t love you now.” I didn’t mean it either.
turned off my phone’s reading app so she couldn’t glance over my shoulder to see exactly what I was reading. The romance novels were my escape and mine alone.
me too girl!
Maybe I should come up there and—” “Not happening.” It wasn’t my voice but Dex’s, from behind me,
“You come to my casino, my resort, have your fuckboy of a boyfriend propose on my property. And you’re wearing his ring like it belongs on your finger. Tell me it’s a joke. Say. It.”
I’m paying you, heartbreaker.”
I hated that he still remembered the nickname he gave me.
“There’s no reason to act like there’s something between us when there isn’t.”
“And look at you. Those pretty eyes are full of hunger, heartbreaker. Want to give me the chance tonight?”
“Your good-girl image too pristine you
can’t dirty it up when you feel like kissing your fiancé?”
