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But I knew why he said that.

I nodded. “Yeah. All right. I’ll see you there.”

14

RYLEIGH

I shiftedmy car into park and looked up at the sketchy bar in front of me.

According to my phone, Roman was there.

He didn’t know that I had set up location-sharing on his phone a few days ago when I had decided it would be a good idea for me to know where he was at all times. Not because I thought he would cheat on me or that I didn’t trust him, but for safety.

And admittedly, with all the stalking he had done to me, it seemed only fair that I did it to him too.

It had been a last-minute decision, really.

He came home one night looking like he had rolled around in the dirt the entire day and had walked straight into the bathroom without so much of a greeting.

I didn’t follow him while he went to shower.

Instead, I noticed him place his phone on the bedside table, and out of curiosity, I wondered if he had put the lock on it yet.

He hadn’t.

So I tracked him.

He didn’t know that I usually looked up his location throughout the day while he was gone.

It made me feel better.

And now he texted saying he might not return to my apartment after days of avoiding me?

This was the longest we had gone without sex, and I knew sex wasn’t the answer to everything, but I missed him.

I missed him when he was lying on his side of the bed, thinking I was asleep, while I had been waiting up for him most nights.

I missed the possessive way in which he took me, the feeling of him moving inside me, and most of all, the feeling of him pulling me into his arms afterward.

One of the few rare moments that he became soft with another person.

When he became soft with me.

Something had happened to make him pull away like this, and I was a little scared to ask him what that was.

I couldn’t shake the feeling that it might have something to do with me.

So here I was, parked in front of a bar I thought I would never step foot in, not in a million years.

I jumped a little when the front door opened, and a group of people walked out, one woman and two men.

The woman had her arms wrapped around both men, kissing one then the other, before they led her to a car.

It was obvious they were trying to find a place to fuck.

I swallowed.

One man was enough for me.

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