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Layla’s pov
But instead of blasting those words to him, I pressed my lips together and clenched my eyes tightly to control my anger and frustration.
What would be the point in telling a guy who clearly
doesn’t want something more than a sexual relationship that you want him?
I refuse to be a laughing stock and refuse to make him know how much he had affected me in just a few days.
“Mad at what?” | asked, playing oblivious to his state ment. I slide off the chair and rose to my feet just to move away from his body.
His close proximity was messing with my head.
“Did you not see the picture?” Tyler asked with confusion swirling in his tone as he followed me to a row of book
shelves.
I have no idea what I’m looking for. In fact, I didn’t need
another book. I just needed to put some distance between us.
But clearly, that wasn’t working.
Tyler followed me until he practically hovered over my
frame.
| pretend to skim my fingers through the back of the books as I answered. “What picture are you talking about ex actly?” | played dumb, biting my tongue when I heard the loud sigh of his frustration breathing out beside me.
” Layla,” Tyler called out beside me and traps my wrist in his hold.
my chest furiously as his touch burned through
over at him slowly,
wait for him to continue speaking but I wasn’t sure a coherent
I didn’t think I’d even be able to talk as
at me deeply, switching between my eyes and my lips. “Layla,” When he breathed
feels like a soft
that was just my
picture Karen’s showing around
went to her place
that’s all I needed to hear. I
it cool as I shrugged. “What you do is
You don’t owe
interested in the books than him. “Whatever arrangement we had is off remember?
do I care.”
lip as I felt it wobble a bit because
I was hell bent on
nothing more than for the floor to open up and swallow me
you do with anyone Tyler,” I
you want. You’ve always been that way anyway.” I shrugged again my throat tighten ing as
hole he pleases
all up in my head by a damn fantasy that would never happen was a
focusing on was getting the hell out of
I’ll not let my stupid heart and even more stupid fantasies get in the way of achieving that goal I
eyes narrowed on my face and I was sure he was trying to find something that would tell him that
eyes
stiff with a clench.
in the first place.”
or not. You’d still not take my word
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