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But the realization dousedwith Nan All that stuff he’d said to me was a lie He had made me a promise, one I hadn’t asked for and he had never intended to keep

"Harlow?" he said, his voice thick froht He must’ve been exhausted

I didn’t respond I couldn’t think of anything to say I hadn’t expected him to even be in Rose in Nan’s bed

I was an idiot

Three o

A knock on my bedroom door interrupted my favorite scene in a book I had read at least ten times Annoyed, I laid down my Kindle "Yes?"

The door opened slowly and Grant Carter stuck his ridiculously beautiful head intohair, which curled at the ends and tucked neatly behind his ears, irl want to sit and just play with it for hours I often wondered if it was as soft as it looked His eyes twinkled as if he knew exactly what I was thinking, so I forced a scowl onthat I reserved just for him

It wasn’t really fair I disliked hi but nice to h forrong with hiot way too much" His blue eyes were so hard to look away from They had been my downfall since the first time I laid eyes on him That had been before I kneas Nan’s Grant

"I’iveto eat, but the book had suckedGrant always uys who looked like hiirls like Nan

"I don’t believe you," he said, pushinginto the room with a tray covered in boxes from the little Chinatown place my dad loved so much "Help me eat Just because I dated Nan doesn’t ot a das"

Really? Was I hurting his feelings? I hadn’t meant to I didn’t think he would really care Besides, he was the one who ran off cursing the night we met when he found out who I was after he had made a move on me

"Dated?" I asked, surprised withon her to show up I don’t think that’s past tense" I sounded like a schoolteacher

Grant chuckled and sat down beside me on the bed and set the tray down on the bedside table "She’sher Besides, I just got word that she’s back in Rosemary"

See, that Just that He was her friend What nor with the ossip azines on Sellers’s arm Last week she made the neith Moon, and there was all kinds of talk about her breaking up the band Which isn’t going to happen"

Grant opened a carton of sweet-and-sour chicken and stuck a pair of chopsticks in it, then handed it to me "Sweet- and-sour or honey chicken? You pick"

I took the sweet-and-sour "This is fine Thank you," I replied

His srew He hadn’t expected me to take it

"Good, I wanted the honey," he replied with a wink I hated thatGrant was on the other side of a line that I wasn’t going to cross

"It isn’tThat’s over between us I’o off the grid again She’s hoood"

Why would he do that? What had she done to earn that kind of protectiveness from someone like Grant? "That’s nice of you," I said because I didn’t knohat else to say I took a bite of ainstme in a way that only made me want to squir some Chinese food Doesn’tmore chicken in my mouth

Grant frowned and then a s this crazy-ass dance around each other every ti, sugar So lethis food back down on the table and turning his body so that he facedheart What was he doing? What was I going to do if he got any closer? Guys didn’t flirt with me They didn’t cohter Didn’t Grant get that?

"I don’t want you to hate me," he said, simply

I didn’t hate him I shook my head "I don’t"

"Yeah, you do I’irls," he said and flashed rin