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“Cain!” she hissed as she followed.
“Go back to Lucas, princess. Send me a text if you leave with him.”
We were walking down the hallway to the bathroom when she grabbed my arm hard enough to stop me.
“Stop,” she nearly yelled. “Hang on. Why are you walking away?”
“Because I want to.” The words came out harder than I meant them to, and her eyes widened.
“What the hell is wrong with you?”
“What the hell is wrong withyou?Why are you talking to me when you have a man waiting?”
“Wait—”
“No, Mollie.” I wrenched my arm out of her grip. “I need a minute alone.”
“Then take me with you.”
“No. It needs to befromyou.”
Her jaw fell. “What did I do?”
“Just go back out there.”
“No,” she said, stepping closer. “We’ve been getting along for weeks. You can’t suddenly act like a caveman and expect me to let you get away with it!”
“I won’t act like one if you walk away,” I hissed back. I wanted to raise my voice, but I knew that if anyone heard a word of what I was saying, I would be in trouble.
“Not until I understand.” Now she was even closer, invading all of my senses. All I could see washer.All I could smell washer.
And all I wanted to taste washer.
“Walk away.”
“No,” she said. “I’m not leaving until you tell me what’s going on.”
I couldn’t think straight, and I knew I’d regret the words I would say next. “You wanna know what’s going on? You’re driving me up a wall, Mollie. With your damn dress and whatever the fuck you use to smell like that—I can’t fucking think.”
“W-well, fuck you. Get over it.”
“Ican’t.”
She steppedcloser,dammit. “You’re going to, because whether you like it or not, you’re fucking stuck with me.”
“You never back down, do you?”
“Not with you.”
“You’re gonna regret this.”
She angled her head, glossy lips forming a smile. “Try me.”
And that was when my control went out the window, and I grabbed her by the jaw and crashed my lips onto hers.
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