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“So, you’re looking for a booty call?”
I chuckle. “I don’t think of it like that.”
“What would the rules of engagement be?”
“Rules of engagement? Seriously?”
“Whatever you want to call them.”
“For one, my brother can absolutely never find out.”
“Agreed.”
“You’re no longer allowed to be an asshole to me. Ever. Even if I do an entire hit piece on you, you must always invite me to every event you hold.”
“Sweet as sugar—got it.”
Looking at his eager smile, those succulent lips, I realize how short-sighted I’ve been. If I start hooking up with Atticus, I’ll never stop. He’ll continue to see whoever he wants, while I pine for our next interaction.
I have to be able to move one once we’re done.
“It stops after a month.”
His lips twitch to the side. “Why after a month?”
“I just…think it would be too easy to get sloppy as time goes by. We can’t risk letting our guard down, or Lance might find out about us. A month should be all it takes to get the job done.”
He nods. “Yeah, that makes sense.”
“And during that month, it’s an exclusive friends with benefits situation. No one else.”
“Just us. Got it.”
We lock gazes as though we’re each waiting for the other to make the first move, and just when I think I’m about to give in, he speaks.
“When we…uh, first hooked up, were you a virgin?”
So he could tell…
And yet he still treated you like crap.
I give a curt nod.
“Jesus Christ—I’m an asshole. I can’t believe I treated you so poorly afterward.”
“Yeah, it, um…it hurt.”
“I’d like to make it up to you right now, if you’ll let me.” He turns his body toward mine, his eyes lingering south of my neck.
The air is so thick between us, I wonder if there’s a real possibility that I could drown. Everything has flipped on its head with my oh, so dangerous proposition that’s turned my blood molten.
I clear my throat, not that it helps any. I’m so full of lust that anything I say will come out in the raspy tone of a smoker.
“Please do.”
CHAPTER7
ATTICUS
