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The.

Fuck.

“You don’t have to mean it,” she added, voice soft and barely more than a whisper. “In fact, I know you don’t. That’s okay. I just want to hear it.”

“Are you serious?” I ran a hand through my hair and bit back the urge to roar. I never told anyone I loved them. Fucking no one. I’d spoken those words to a grand total of two women in my lifetime. The first one, my mother, shortly before she died. The second, Britt, shortly before she fucked me over. I shook my head. “No.”

“Please,” she whispered, looking up at my face with those smoky, grey eyes. “Just lie, Rourke. Just lie to me.” Her hands were on my waist, pulling me down on her fucking amazing body. “I won’t mind. I promise.”

“Ican’t,” I squeezed out, voice strained from the sheer amount of concentration it was taking to not plunge my dick inside this girl and fuck her brains out.

I wouldn’t lie about something like that. I couldn’t. I didn’t love Six and I wasn’t taking her under false pretenses. I wasn’t a fuckingpredator. If she wanted me for the night, I was hers, but that was it.

“If you want my dick, it’s yours,” I told her. “But it will be sex, not love.”

Shaking her head, she scrambled out from underneath me. “You hypocritical asshole!”

No.

No.

No.

Fuckingno…

Tucking her hair behind her ears, Six pulled her duvet across her body, hiding herself from me. “God, I’m so fucking stupid.” She laughed harshly. “You don’t even like me.”

“Don’tlikeyou?” Standing up, I put my dick back in my pants and readjusted my erection. “Does this look like I don’tlike you?” I was harder than I’d ever been in my goddamn life.

“Your dick likes me, Rourke,” she shot back flatly. “But you’ve made it pretty clear that the rest of you hates me.” She touched her cheeks with her hands and groaned loudly. “I’m such a fool.”

“Is this because I won’t tell you I love you?” I shot back, confused as hell. “Because I won’t lie about shit like that, Six. Idon’tlove you.”

“Good,” she shot back quickly. “Because I don’t love you either. Do you hear me? I don’t love you either, dammit!”

“Good,” I growled. “Glad we’re on the same page.”

“Me too.”

I stood staring at her for the longest moment before throwing my hands up in the air in frustration. “You know what? Fuck this.”

“See!” she hissed. “You can’t even be nice to me for one minute.”

“Because I don’t know how tohandleyou,” I roared. “Because I don’t know how to deal with the way you make mefeel!”

“Mad, Rourke. I make you feel mad,” Six replied, tone shaken. “And you make me feel crazy. So I think it’s best if you leave and we both forget this ever happened.”

“That’s what you want?” I stared hard at her. “You want me to walk out of here and pretend this…” I gestured between us. “Never happened?”

Wide eyed, Six stared at me for the longest moment before whispering, “yes.”

Mercedes

I HAD COMETHISclose to losing my virginity to a boy who hated me almost as much as I hated him.

What the hell was wrong with me?

Something really bad, obviously, from the way I’d given myself up to my stepbrother like that.

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