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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.
in my chest furiously as his touch burned through my skin
slowly, staring at him
for him to continue speaking but I wasn’t sure a coherent word would slip out of
I’d even be able
eyes and my lips.
like a
perhaps that was just my
Karen’s showing around doesn’t
to her place
all I needed to hear. I wrench from
it cool as I shrugged.
don’t owe me an
more interested in the books than him. “Whatever arrangement we had is
do I care.”
bottom lip as I felt it wobble
was
my face and I wanted nothing more than for the floor to
“I don’t care what you do with anyone Tyler,” I looked at
been that way anyway.” I shrugged again my throat tighten ing as my own words got to me by
hole he pleases had been his specialty
fantasy that
should be focusing on was getting the hell out of this neighborhood
always the game plan. I’ll not let my stupid heart and even more stupid fantasies get in the way of achieving that goal I had set
and I was sure he was trying to find something
his eyes darken and
stiff with a clench.
to explain this to you in the first
not. You’d still not take my word for
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