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She let out a frustrated growl “Blur like sotong”
That eird enough to cool his terees while his brain tried—and failed—to decode it “What does that even mean?”
“That you’re clueless like a cuttlefish, a little soapore,” she said, turning her attention back to the buttons next to the doors lighting up with each floor they passed “The point being that you shouldn’t blame your lack of focus on me”
“Oh really, so that little shoith Tyler wasn’t your way of getting back atback to lava levels
“Believe it or not, the world does not revolve around you”
“So you were flirting with hie “Were you just keeping your options open for your next adventure after you come back from Australia?”
He saith exacting, slow motion detail the moment the barb burrowed underneath her skin Her brown eyes, dark with a furious passion, ith shock Her red lips parted with a gasp Her chin tre hard when she clenched her jaw
“You prick,” she said The faintest hint of wetness in her eyes disappeared with a blink, but it was still there in her voice
This is when he should apologize, take back what he’d said only because he’d known it would hurt her But any good sense he had was burning in the flaer He didn’t understand what had happened, but soun to crowd into the corners of his big vision, changing it in subtle ways that threw the rest of it off He found hi down the hours until they were alone again, beco desperate to touch her soft skin Even nohen he was so mad he could barely think, he wanted her like he’d never wanted anyone else He couldn’t—wouldn’t—have that His life was orderly Pre-detere not only to drag hie that—no matter how much he needed to feel her under him and hear her soft moans of satisfaction as she came
So instead of saying sorry, he doubled down on his attack “My prick has been your favorite part about me”
She rolled her eyes “Yeah, I like it when you use it, not when you act like it There’s a difference—one you obviously can’t grasp”
The elevator doors opened and she strode out, her heels clicking angrily on the tile floor of his foyer as sheto her bedrooht Even the idea of not sleeping with her hit him like a sucker punch to the kidney
“Where do you think you’re going?” Sawyer rushed out of the elevator, following “I’ to you”
“Yeah?” Clover kept walking “Well, I’m done with you”
Maybe it was because he couldn’t let her have the last word Maybe it was because he couldn’t stand to see her go It didn’tafter her before he even realized he wasHe reached a hand out but she stopped and whirled around faster than he could touch her Her cheeks were flush and her breath cans of just how angry she ith him at the ainst the tight fit of her black dress, and her pupils had dilated with desire