Her skin was so soft under my fingers, and she smelled fucking phenomenal, that sexy Christmas smell mixed with something sweet like a sugar cookie.
I wanted to fuck her so badly I was getting the flop sweats, like I was going through withdrawal.
“I was just trying to give you shit and make you jealous. I’m sorry. She means nothing to me. I swear. I only fucked her twice, just to be polite. Let’s just go back to how things were.”
Rosalie was looking at me, narrowing her eyes, and I felt suddenly hot and prickly under her regard, my skin tight and anxious.
“No,” she said. “I don’t think I want to go back to how we used to be.”
“Why the fuck not?”
She shrugged. “Not interested in being your fuck buddy anymore.”
My insides curdled like sour milk, my lungs shriveling like it was hard to breathe.
“Don’t be like that. What do you want then? What can I give you?”
“I don’t want anything from you.”
“Come on. Something sparkly to wear? New condo? How about a boat?”
She only looked bored.
“Give it up, Rosalie. You know you can’t stay away from me.”
My skin crawled with the desire to touch her, get close to her. I wanted to hear her talking shit as I came down from my post-show buzz.
“Actually, I’m finding it very easy to.”
“Baby—"
She ignored me, getting up to walk away.
“What are you trying to tell me?”
“It’s over between us, Kings,” she said as cold sweat broke out all over my body, dripping down into my eyes. “You said we make better friends. So we’ll just be friends.”
She patted me on the shoulder, a friendly uninterested pat.
“You’ll be fine, buddy. Plenty of women on the roster.”
Something twisted painfully inside me, a sudden gutting pain so deep it took my breath away.
“Rosalie—”
But she was gone.
CHAPTER 6
Rosalie (senior year of college)
Iwas working my usual slow afternoon shift at the coffee shop when the phone rang.
Usually I ignored it. But not this time.
Never when it was Kingsley.
My heart began to beat faster, my breath bursting in little pants, and suddenly my uniform was just a little too tight against my swelling breasts.
