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“And then tomorrow evening you can come back over here again,” he adds. Then he pauses, eyes wide like he just said something incriminating. “I mean, you can bring it back over here again.” He gives me a nervous smile, eyebrows raised as he awaits my answer. I can feel my heart in my stomach. It’s thumping like I’m going to be sick and pee my pants at the same time, but kind of in a good way.
The ultimate feminist win: thriving off the patriarchy for our own evil gain.
Plus I hate thinking about Tate, simply because it hurts that I have to hate him.
Then he glances over at the bed, a crumpled mess with my current read enthroned on the pillow like a little smut shrine.
“What are the little tabs for?” His eyes are back on the book stacks, much to my horror. “I tab the useful bits of information. Vivid and grotesque murder scenes, for example.”
I sense the presence of a large warm body standing close behind me so I refuse to turn around. It feels like I have a lighter licking up my spine, and my stomach swirls with heat.
“I am not taking a single thing from you,” I say in as steady a voice as I can manage. He folds his arms and the tattoo on his bicep bulges. “Tell me whose bed you’re sleeping in again?” I mirror him and cross my arms too. “I’m sure that you have slept in all kinds of beds, Tate.”
“Tate cannot see you like this,” Mitch says. “In fact, Tate cannot see other people seeing you like this. He’s going to go insane.” I narrow my eyes at Mitch and everything becomes clear. Mitch knows.
He’s hurting because I am hurting.
I’m going to start planning things. I want to spoil you.” Then he looks up at me with a playful smile. “Are you going to let me spoil you, River?”
He holds up the box. “You want me to fit that lock in your door?” I’m clutching onto the quilt for dear life. His voice is so deep I can feel it in my bones. Mainly my pelvic bones.
It’ll be good to leave this town, even if my soul is begging me to stay.
“It’s about time that you had a real man in your house.”
I think that I might love more than just the CDs, Tate.
Tate is my penitent, and he’s ready to confess.
Tate Coleson is so cut that he’s borderline Sasquatch, so the fact that he isn’t afraid to admit his emotions lights up a flock of fireflies in my belly, and it makes me like him even more.
I want to wait for you. I don’t care how long that is. I want it to be with you, and only with you, okay?”

