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“I understand.”
He lowered his bushy brows and continued around to the other side of the changing room.
My gaze turned to the empty trail left by the goddess. I would have had her right here up against the wall if we hadn’t been interrupted.
It was fine though. There was always next time, and now I knew one thing I didn’t know earlier, or even yesterday.
Vanessa wanted me too.
Chapter 7
Vanessa
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Calm,calm, calm down and breathe.
I checked my face in the rearview mirror of my car. It was still red.
Why in the hell did I have to look like someone blew red dirt all over my face when I blushed? Even when I put bronzer on my skin, it did nothing. It was a dead giveaway of guilt.
And what did I have to feel guilt over today?
The promise I’d made to myself only this morning that I would be the strong woman I’d grown into and say no to Cole.
It was supposed to be that simple. Tell him no.
But what did I do? When literally backed into a corner, I was the one who undid my bra so he could suck my breasts, and I was the one who allowed the man to finger me. I didn’t even know what he was doing until he did it, pushing his finger right into my virgin passage, making me experience pleasure I’d only ever heard and read about.
If sex was anything like that, no wonder my sisters had gone crazy on it.
When I left Cole, I’d called Mia. I needed someone to talk to who would understand. I called her, but her phone went straight to voicemail. No way was I calling Abby, and since Taylor never answered the phone anyway, there was no point bothering to take the minute it would to call her and either go straight to her voicemail too, or get a dead tone.
My car took me to Gage.
My trusty car that probably had more common sense than me right now took me to the person who would give me the advice I needed. He would never tell me what I wanted to hear, or what my body wanted to hear. He would give me truth straight up and call me out on the madness that had possessed me to go for the billionaire playboy football player.
Mia, on the other hand, would have wanted to hear all the saucy parts, never mind the logic, or that I must have lost my damn mind.
I went straight to Gage’s office. His door was ajar, and he was in there with his secretary. The new one who was always doing her best to get his attention. Just like every other woman in this office.
Fruitless on a man like him who didn’t believe in office romance. Pretty as his secretary was, he wouldn’t be the guy to indulge in her just because he could.
Listen to me…
What the hell did I know? Maybe he had. Maybe I was just in some La La Land and everyone wasn’t what they seemed to be.
Cole sure wasn’t.
In my head, his actions of the past were enough evidence to suggest he didn’t want me. He’d never wanted me, so why would anyone else?
It was a sad thought but that was it. That was the fear instilled in my mind. A fearful thought I’d wanted to be rid of.
Cole didn’t want me back in high school and the assumption followed that he was being the same ass he’d been back then.
Except…it seemed like he wasn’t.
This whole week had proved me wrong.
