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Rosalie? Oh my god. My cheeks stain darker somehow; I can feel the heat. I told him my full name? No one knows my full name—I never use it.
Forcing a quick smile like it might liven my spirits, I eat everything on my plate before curling up under the covers and trying to sleep. Even as her voice plagues me again. I think you’d be really easy to love.
What’s a nice way of saying, “You were so upset that you wanted to jump off the roof into a pool just to feel something different”? Or maybe, “You told me your boyfriend sucks and then tilted my entire world by saying that it would be easy to love me? When it’s a fucking hardship for everyone else”?
“I’ll be your friend, Ro,”
“Bennett needs you to be clearer. He can’t always pick up when you’re serious and when you’re joking. Try not to be so sarcastic.”
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He opens the door wide as he speaks and his black lab, Seven, lifts his head from the bed before stepping gently over someone in Bennett’s bed. My eyebrows shoot up—because Bennett doesn’t date or even sleep around, from what I know. And I’ve known Bennett Reiner for going on four years now. His service dog pads toward him with a whine and nudges his hand with a wet nose. Bennett whispers, “Go back to her,” so quietly I can barely hear him. Still, I can see Seven settling back against the lump beneath the covers, partially covered by the door and Bennett’s body as he protectively pulls it
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He smells like whiskey and body paint, and he feels dangerously like mine.
“How good are you in the kitchen?” He blanches. “Where’s your fire extinguisher?”
I think loving you would be the greatest thing in my life.
Bennett walks to me, seeming exhausted and sad. “I’ll take you home,” he says quietly. I wipe my eyes, their burning outweighing my need to keep from smearing my mascara. “No, you don’t have to, I can call an Uber—” “I was already heading out. Besides…” He shrugs a little. “I’m, like, a five-star car service at this point.”
“Because they’ve been disappointed by too many people,” he says. “And I won’t be one of them.” He pauses and heaves a heavy sigh. “And… she deserves it.”
“You told me to fall!” she says on an incredulous laugh. I shake my head. “Because I’m an idiot. When will you learn to stop listening to me? I think it scared me more than you.”
