Bye-Bye Jerk, Hello Mr. Right by Rosie Steppe

Chapter 687

Chapter 687

A sharp sting snapped me back.

"Ow!" I flinched, trying to pull my hand away, but Xander's grip didn't budge.

"Stay still," he said, his voice low, calm-soft, even. "It'll be over in a second."

This guy. His mood swings were wilder than a summer storm, and I was no closer to figuring him out. The nurse worked quickly, skilled and efficient. In no time, she pulled out a glass shard and held it up like a trophy. "See? It's pretty big. If you hadn't gotten this out, it

would've just kept hurting, stuck like that."

I stared at the shard, trying to remember when I could've gotten it. It must've been when I smashed that ashtray earlier.

The nurse disinfected my wound and wrapped it with a bandage. Just like that, I was done. Good to go.

"Thank you," Xander said to the nurse and finally released my hand.

I pulled it back awkwardly, staring at the bandage for a beat before looking at him. "What about you?"

"What about me?" Xander blinked, then caught on. "I'm fine. Not a scratch."

Okay, that didn't add up. Considering he'd just played superhero, dodging a car and rolling us across the ground, he should've at least had, like, dirt on him or something.

Guess his soft-boy vibes were just for show.

of the treatment room, I gave him a side-eye.

a

couldn't ignore how much his attitude

tilted his head, feigning

you, like, hate me? So what's with this whole 'saving my life'

was the most obvious thing in the world. "Bringing you to a doctor seemed...

string.

eyes flicking to his face. "At first?

helped me earlier because of this face,

me. If something happened to it, I'd lose... a

so I smiled faintly. "But

to leave, but as we brushed past each other, he threw me

stopped dead in my tracks and spun

of clients or just...

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person. Specifically you."

now you want to

face was all business. "Do you still feel

I was dead serious about it, he shot me down

said no? Would you be

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