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“Let’s get one thing straight. I don’t want you here. I didn’t ask for you to move in, and the only reason you’re here is because you’re my sister’s friend and I’m the reason she doesn’t have very many. I like my space, and if it were my choice, I’d be living alone. So, no, Indiana, we’re not going to be friends. We’re going to coexist in the same apartment until you can find yourself a different situation while I fulfill my brotherly duty.”
Oh that's not-
I’m not easily distracted, but if I could manifest my perfect distraction, it’d look a lot like her.
RIGHT RIGHT
When did I say that? I’m a romance reader. I have a thing for assholes.
She just like me fr
It’s decided. I’m going to bring some color into Ryan Shay’s life if it’s the last thing I do.
“Stop looking at her,” I warn. “Go hit the showers or get to the airport or just about anything other than look at her. She’s not available.”
RIGHT....RIGHT
“No, I’m not hitting that. And neither are any of you. Stop looking at her or she’ll be the last thing you ever fucking see.” “Ooooh. Protective Shay is here, and his sister is nowhere to be found. Someone write this date down. History is being made, people. Ryan Shay gives a fuck about someone other than Stevie and something other than basketball.”
I'm giggling
“Do you want me to get on my knees and beg or something?”
I MEAAAAAN
“Now that you say it.” She cocks her head to the side, eyes roaming my length. “I wouldn’t mind knowing what you look like on your knees, Shay.” “Indy, please.” “This is ridiculous. We can talk about it when you get home.” “Perfect. Great. All I’m asking for is one night.” “Go get me your key so I can go crash in my new expensive bed.” “What an amazing guy to buy you a bed. Probably makes you want to return a favor. He seems like a wonderful person.” Indy rolls her eyes. “He’s on my shit list at the moment.”
I already adore them
“Indigo, wake up!”
not the govy
What she’s going through resonates with me, and if Indy having some flowers in my apartment will make her happy, well then, I guess I’m growing a green fucking thumb.
he's so dreamy
But I’m not leading you on because this”—I motion between us—“will never be like that.”
OH IM SURE
“Indy-pendent Woman 101.” She raises a questioning brow.
LOVE THEM
I tried! I really tried to keep them alive, but I think I watered them too much and drowned them. Then when I went down to the flower stand today to buy the same ones in hopes you wouldn’t notice, they didn’t have them. So I bought you some called Black-eyed Susan? Which is the weirdest fucking thing to call a flower.
He might be perfect
He’s ruined this, just like he ruined us, our future, our history, and just how he’s ruined every orgasm I’ve chased over the last seven months.
I put a hex on him dw
Kai Rhodes
HEEEEYYY
“So, what’s with baseball’s Clark Kent?”
David cornswet btw
These guys, they don’t like loud women.
We dont care
Keep an eye on Indy for me. She has no clue that these guys are eye-fucking the hell out of her in that goddamn dress.
Right...right
“Stevie told Zanders and Zanders told me because, Indy, I was freaking the fuck out.” “Rio. You and I, we’re friends. We’ve been over this.” He scoffs, his head jolting back. “I’m not talking about you. I thought one of my closest friends was dating Ryan Shay. Ryan freaking Shay. You know how I feel about him.”
LMFAOOOO
“No. That’s not how this is going to go. When you’re with me, I want you exactly as you are. That includes letting people know just how fucking smart you are. You’re not going to cater to anyone’s toxic masculinity bullshit. You’re not going to be quiet and appeasing when you’re with me. If Ron, or anyone else for that matter, has an issue with you being smarter than him, then we’re going to have a far bigger problem than him thinking I’m not a good leader.”
I WANT YOU SO BAD
“Yeah, that’s another thing. How fucking small was Alex’s dick that he let you do this? Or should I say, asked you to do this. That shit is manipulative and controlling because, let me guess, he didn’t like that you were smarter than him, possibly more successful. Did he ask you to tone it down in front of his friends? Did he want you to stay quiet and look pretty so his colleagues wouldn’t think less of him?”
NEEED THAT
“Indy.” Both his large hands cup my face. “I don’t give a fuck where we are. You could cry all you want at this fundraiser. You could scream, laugh, throw a temper tantrum in front of these people for all I care. I don’t give a fuck, but you’re not crying over him, here or anywhere else.”
PLS PLS PLS PLS
She’s going to romanticize me buying fucking breakfast meats because that’s who she is, but it’s nothing. Really.
dpmo you like her
I want her here. I want her to want to be here. Fuck, when did that happen?
“Ryan Taylor Shay.” Zanders gets on one knee in front of me. “Will you be my brother-in-law?”
HIIII
“I’m kidding.” He retakes his seat, laughing.
Oh
“Ryan, my guy, you’re so completely fucked, and you can’t even see it.”
And we smile
The version where she’s not toning it down to be appropriate or appeasing. This is my version of her. The one where she’s comfortable and casual at home and I don’t want to share her.
STAND UP
Even down to her toes, this girl is pretty. Slender bones and soft skin.
No way he likes feet right?
Whether she believes it or not, Indigo Ivers is the type of woman you keep forever, and even though I can pretend to be her boyfriend, there’s no way in hell I could pretend that one night with her wouldn’t completely fuck me up.
His fingertips slip between my legs, dangerously close to a spot I need them, before he kneads my flesh as if he were holding back from more.
Right...right
He’s getting good at this fake boyfriend thing,
He not faking
“There’s nothing desperate about going after what you want most in life. So, fuck him for saying it because even if you don’t want to tell me, I know it was him.”
im in love
“Trying to distract me tonight? With those heels and those lips? Because you look fucking stunning.”
now kiss
“Indy,” Alex repeats when I don’t turn around the first time.
OH HELL NO
Commanding yet measured, as I’d expect any kiss from Ryan Shay to be. My mouth yields to his, parting to take him deeper and his tongue ever so slightly sweeps across mine in an electrifying slide. One of his hands drops, curving around my throat to bracket the back of my neck as the other pulls my hips to his.
LETS GOOOO
“It was acting, Ind.”
Dpmo
That’s right, take it in, Roomie. And good luck blaming the drool dripping down your chin on acting.
LMFAO
“Wearing these itty-bitty shorts and bending over in my kitchen. Don’t act all innocent, Blue.”
LET ME INNNN
I hear him say, “I’m celibate, that’s why.”
That sucks
“I don’t give a fuck, Indy.”
RYAN WE LOVE YOU
should go warn my mother that you’re not my actual girlfriend before she gives herself a heart attack from excitement.”
Not that bitch
“I’m not defending him. What he did was not okay, but it’s Alex we’re talking about.”
Oh fuck you and him
“Indy, he wants everything you’ve ever wanted. He had a moment of weakness. He wants the marriage, the kids. There’s no way you’re close to that with that basketball player. Are you really seeing that guy?”
Sybau
That guy in the waiting room? Yeah, that was her real fucking boyfriend. It was his kid. He
was in on the whole thing. Our so-called relationship was all a scheme. They both played me, and she was trying to get knocked up. They were just trying to get eighteen years of child support out of me.” I laugh in disbelief, hearing how absurd the words sound out loud as I recall that day four and a half years ago. “She was never afraid of the limelight and her parents weren’t religious. She didn’t want anyone to know we were in a relationship because she was playing me the whole fucking time.”
OH FUCK HER
“Oh,” she chokes out, blinking rapidly. “Okay.” She nods to herself. “Well, I guess this is good news for you then. That procedure I need to have in the summer, it’s covered by insurance, so I don’t need to save up for it anymore. I can move out.”
NOOOOOO
“I don’t want you to think I’m taking advantage of you. God, that’s the last thing I want, Ryan, but I do want to help you. That’s why I pulled myself from my work trip. So, I’ll stay for a few days if that’s okay with you? Make sure you’re back to walking without those crutches, then I’ll find my own place.”
Lets die
“The entire hockey team is in love with her.”
Me too they not special
